Abortion is one of the most costly disease complexes affecting the UK sheep flock. Costs in 2005 were estimated to be £20 million for Chlamydial abortion and £12 million for Toxoplasmosis. A single outbreak of chlamydial abortion in a Scottish flock was estimated to cost £2163 per 100 ewes. In this session we will cover the causes of sheep abortion commonly encountered in the UK, and recent evidence on how pervasive they are, how to react to an abortion outbreak and, perhaps most importantly, how to perform a risk assessment of a flock with regard to the common causes of ovine abortion, and how to mitigate these risks to minimise preventable losses due to abortion.

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