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Contents
About Public Health England 2
About the HAIRS group 2
Preface 4
HAIRS members - end of 2015 5
Past HAIRS members (2013-2015) 6
Executive summary 7
Major topics and incidents discussed by the HAIRS group 8
Borrelia miyamotoi - an emerging tick-borne bacterial disease in the UK 8
Culex modestus - an emerging mosquito species in the UK 10
Ebola virus disease - canine contacts of human cases 11
Exotic pets in the UK and their potential public health implications 12
Hantavirus in the UK associated with fancy rats 14
Hepatitis E - the continued emergence 16
Idiopathic cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy in UK dogs 17
Mycobacterium bovis - first reported incident of cat to human transmission 18
Novel bornavirus in variegated squirrels in Germany: a newly detected species 20
Rhipicephalus sanguineus associated with dogs entering the UK 22
Other topics and incidents discussed by the HAIRS group 24
Bovine leukaemia virus and its potential association with breast cancer 24
Brucella species in marine mammals 25
Risk to the UK from chikungunya virus 26
Eurasian beaver population in River Otter, Devon 27
Klebsiella pneumoniae in pigs in the UK 28
Livestock-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus 29
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus and companion animals 30
Mycobacterium lepromatosis in squirrels 31
Novel Brucella species in White's tree frog 32
Rabbit haemorrhagic disease 33
Serum archive for emerging zoonoses - a new zoonoses study 34
Streptococcus halichoeri - an update 35
Taenia saginata - an incident of potential public health significance 36
Theiler's disease-associated virus - a newly recognised equine pathogen 37
Trichinella pseudospiralis in England 38
Appendix A: Risk Assessment Processes 39
Appendix B: Glossary of abbreviations 44
Table 1. Exotic pet species available to purchase in the UK and associated infections/pathogens 13
Table 2. Importation events involving Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks reported to PHEs Tick Surveillance Scheme between January 2012 and December 2015 22
Figure 1. Process of risk assessment used by the HAIRS group 43