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This report is produced each month by the APHA Surveillance Intelligence Unit and the six Species Expert Groups (livestock and wildlife). The international horizon-scanning summaries are produced by the Defra/APHA International Disease Monitoring (IDM) team, notifiable disease reports by the APHA Veterinary Exotic and Notifiable Disease Unit (VENDU), and threat analysis by the cross-agency Veterinary Risk Group (VRG). The report is drawn from scanning surveillance information, data and reports produced by the APHA Veterinary Investigation Centres and non-APHA partner postmortem examination providers contributing to the Veterinary Investigation Diagnosis Analysis (VIDA) database and complying with standardised diagnostic and laboratory testing criteria. Other livestock and wildlife scanning surveillance reports can be found at www.gov.uk/government/collections/animal-disease-surveillance-reports Current and emerging issues African swine fever African swine fever (ASF) was identified in wild boar in Belgium in September. More information on the current situation can be found at www.gov.uk/government/ publications/african-swine-feverin-wild-boar-in-belgium. The wider ASF situation is discussed in the International Disease Monitoring section on p 407.