Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 54939

West Nile Virus: Disease Control

Tabled: 30 May 2025

Answered: 6 June 2025

Named Day

Question

Tom Gordon

Liberal Democrat — Harrogate and Knaresborough

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

Daniel Zeichner

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...

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