AFBI Omagh is part of the Disease Surveillance & Investigation Branch of AFBI's
Veterinary Sciences Division.
AFBI Omagh aims to promote the health
and welfare of farm animals. It
provides a rapid laboratory animal disease surveillance and diagnostic service, in modern laboratories,
to veterinary practitioners, livestock owners, poultry companies and the Department of Agriculture and
Rural Development (DARD). The laboratory receives submissions of dead animals (including poultry)
and clinical specimens such as blood, milk or faeces from live animals. Accurate diagnosis is
necessary for effective treatment and prevention of deaths and productivity losses due to disease.
The
laboratory’s staff also provide technology transfer programmes for veterinary surgeons and industry
and undertake diagnostic investigations of new and emerging diseases and diseases of economic importance.
Statutory work for DARD, including forensic examinations and examination of tissues from the tuberculosis
eradication scheme, is also carried out. Research topics at AFBI Omagh include animal diseases
of economic importance, such as caseous lymphadenitis in sheep, and the role of foxes as a reservoir
for pathogens of domestic animals and humans.
Contact Information
AFBI Omagh,
43 Beltany Road,
Omagh
Contact
us
How to find us
From Belfast Airports, Ferries, North and East- Take
the M1 Motorway West
- Leave the M1 at junction 15 and go straight ahead into
A4
- Take the 2nd exit off the A4 (Roundabout) into A4.
- Continue
straight along A4 (Killymaddy Terrace)
- Take the 2nd exit off the Ballygawley
Roundabout onto A5
- Continue straight on until you enter Omagh, take the through
pass for Strabane A5, take the second exit at the roundabout on the outskirts of Omagh, AFBI
- AFBI
Omagh is approx ½ mile on right hand side behind the Free Presbyterian Church.
From
Dublin/ South
- Take N2 out of Dublin for Monaghan.
- From
Monaghan take N2/A5 for the Ballygawley Roundabout.
- At Ballygawley follow signs
for (A5 Omagh)
- Follow directions above from step 6
