The National Veterinary Institute provides consultancy about animal diseases to public sectors, industry and interest organisations nationally and internationally.
- We provide consultancy about infectious diseases in livestock.
- We are responsible for the laboratory component of the veterinary contingency plan in Denmark.
- We conduct research to achieve knowledge about the nature of diseases, to be able to give research-based advice and to be at the forefront of updated and effective analysis methods.
- We contribute with data for national surveillance programmes for infectious diseases in livestock and zoonoses in Denmark.
- We coordinate the national monitoring of the use of medicine for animals.
- We carry out risk assessments.
- We are the national reference laboratory for a number of infectious diseases in livestock.
- We are the European reference laboratory for fish diseases in the EU.
- We are the international reference laboratory for the OIE for the fish disease VHS and for epidemiology.
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