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Celia Berkers started this month as Vice-Dean Research of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. She has been appointed for a 4-year term, succeeding Dick Heederik. Celia has a long history at Utrecht University and has chaired the Department of Cell Biology, Metabolism & Cancer within the Department of Biomolecular Health Sciences since 2020.

Since the Q fever cull, goat farmers have been slowly restocking – national goat milk production has boomed over the past two decades with export markets including cheese to Germany and goat milk-based infant formula to China. The cull, and other measures including an annual goat vaccination programme, mean Q fever is no longer a risk, says Van der Giessen. But the pneumonia findings, which first emerged in 2013, led to restrictions on the sector starting in 2017, even as demand for goat ...