From the Hazel Rice, Sheep Veterinary Society

Dear All,

We are writing to announce that the Battle Bluetongue BTV-3 vaccine campaign developed by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and Ruminant Health & Welfare (RH&W) in collaboration with key veterinary and industry associations is now live.

The first message in the short term is to please encourage relevant people in your network (vets and industry) to join the official campaign launch webinar on 26^thFebruary to hear about the campaign ambitions, find out about vet toolkit/resources as well as get a current disease update.

Webinar info

• Date and time: 26 February 5-6pm
• Sign up here to join live or receive a recording: Registration

Campaign toolkit
You will find all information relating to the campaign including toolkit links hosted here: Battle Bluetongue – information for vets – Ruminant Health & Welfare but I have also shared the links here for you too:

• Vaccine decision maker tool
• Farmer meeting presentation slides
• Social media post copy
• Pull up poster
• Vaccine campaign FAQS
• A4 Poster – print ready
• Social media – tile image
• Website – thumbnail image

We need your help to cascade the Battle Bluetongue campaign to vets and industry to support farmers to ASSESS RISK, PROTECT BUSINESS and DEFEND STOCK against BTV-3.

1. Please promote and join the campaign webinar on 26^th February
2. Please share the tool kit and promote the campaign via your vet and industry network and through your organisation’s communications channels