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A message to our learning community After much consideration, we’ve made the decision to close the Improve Veterinary Practice platform on 13 January 2026. Improve Veterinary Practice was built to support vets and nurses at every stage of their career, and while this chapter is ending, a new one is starting at Improve Veterinary Education. We couldn’t be more grateful for the community you’ve helped us build and hope to see you on this exciting next step. Find out more

Carrie Batten

Dr Carrie Batten is head of the Non-Vesicular Reference Laboratories at the Pirbright Institute. She is also designated as the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) expert for bluetongue virus and African horse sickness virus. She leads the UK National Reference Laboratories for bluetongue, African horse sickness, African swine fever, morbilliviruses and capripoxviruses, working closely with the other WOAH disease-specific experts at Pirbright. She has over 15 years of experience in viral diagnostics, surveillance and disease control and played an integral role during the UK BTV-8 outbreak in 2007.

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