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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 â 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 milk continued to rise. In Noord-Brabant, and several other provinces, expansion has effectively be...