West Nile Virus: Disease Control
Commons · Question 54939 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record
Answered 6 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Tom Gordon
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many additional surveillance sites are being introduced under the Vector-Borne RADAR programme following the detection of West Nile Virus fragments.
Answer
Answered by Daniel Zeichner, 6 Jun 2025
The Vector-Borne RADAR programme includes a project run by UKHSA’s Medical Entomology and Zoonoses Ecology team undertaking country-wide surveillance for mosquitos in 2025. Pools of any female mosquitos collected will be tested for several potential mosqu...