[FAO-EMPRES Animal Health News]
[cid:image025.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]Predicting the areas at risk for lumpy skin disease (LSD) spread within Eurasia
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a newly emerged transboundary animal disease that has spread within just a few years throughout the Middle East, Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. Introduction of LSD virus into naïve population causes considerable economic losses due to death of cattle, decrease of their productivity, the cost of vaccination campaigns, and its effects on trade...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/news_080219.html>]
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[cid:image026.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]Enhancing Participatory Epidemiology/Participatory Disease Search Methods in East Africa
In an aim to support and enhance participatory epidemiology (PE)/ participatory disease surveillance (PDS) methods in East Africa, FAO facilitated a regional workshop for 11 PE/PDS experts in Nairobi, Kenya. The two days training happened from the 9th- 10th January 2019 with participating experts coming from Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/news_080219b.html>]
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[cid:image027.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]Le lancement de l'application mobile EMA-i de la FAO, améliore le dispositif d'alerte précoce et de réaction rapide des services vétérinaires de Guinée
L'organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) avec l'appui de l'Agence des États-Unis pour le développement international (USAID), renforce les capacités des agents du Réseau d'épidémiosurveillance des maladies animales en Guinée (REMAGUI) sur l'utilisation...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/news_080219c.html>]
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The EUFMD and FAO work in [cid:image028.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50] partnership to launch a new web platform
The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD) has just launched its newly revamped website. A modern visual structure and enriched content will help to create a new awareness towards the Commission's coordinated global action toward FMD control. The content of the website addresses the Commission structure, mandate, global situation, information on training, online networks and e-Learning, tools, and details on upcoming meetings and events. The webpages are a result of fulfilling strategic...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/news_080219d.html>]
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[cid:image029.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]Harmonization of animal health interventions, key for eradicating PPR
FAO Ethiopia representation
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) stress that harmonization of animal health interventions is central for the control and eventual eradication of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) from all parts of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa (HoA) region. This was disclosed on the Sixth National Coordination Workshop of EC-Supporting Horn of Africa Resilience (EC-SHARE), Pursuing Pastoralist Resilience...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/ethiopia/news/detail-events/en/c/1179524/>]
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[cid:image030.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]FAO donates 55 motorbikes to MAF to support animal disease surveillance and market access
FAO Sierra Leone representation
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), on Monday, 4 February 2019 donated 55 motorbikes to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for livestock disease surveillance and easier movement of selected poultry and fishpond farmers to market in selected districts. The event was held at the FAO premises in Wilberforce, Freetown. It was a pooled donation done by three projects in the...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/sierra-leone/news/detail-events/en/c/1179437/>]
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[cid:image031.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]In the Year of the Pig, UN's FAO urges safer practices in livestock trade across the Greater Mekong Sub-Region
FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has urged countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS) to be vigilant in their inspection and monitoring of cross border trade of animal products as transboundary animal diseases (TADs) continue to pose health risks. Representatives from China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as delegates from FAO...[Read more<http://www.fao.org/asiapacific/news/detail-events/en/c/1179175/>]
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Recent publications
[cid:image032.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]Chinese origin H7N9 avian influenza spread in poultry and human exposure (February 2019) FAO Animal Health Risk Analysis - Assessment, Issue No. 8.
The current risk assessment covers the period February to May 2019 and concerns the H7N9 viruses that emerged in China as a cause of zoonotic disease in 2013. These are now referred to as A/Anhui/1/2013-l lineage (AH/13-lineage) H7N9 avian influenza viruses (WHO, 2018a), including both low and highly pathogenic strains....[Read full PDF<http://www.fao.org/3/CA3206EN/ca3206en.pdf>]
[cid:image033.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]Sénégal: Évaluyation pour action
Évaluer les capacités de surveillance des maladies animals
(Janvier 2018)
Dans le cadre du Programme de Sécurité Sanitaire Mondiale (GHSA), l'Agence Américaine pour le Développement International (USAID), a accordé un financement à l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO) en 2014 pour lutter contre les zoonoses émergentes et réémergentes en Afrique, Asie et Proche-Orient...[Read full PDF]<http://www.fao.org/3/CA2917FR/ca2917fr.pdf>
[cid:image034.jpg@01D4BFCA.B64D5F50]Food Chain Crisis Early Warning Bulletin
No. 30 January-March 2019
Transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, including forest pests and aquatic diseases, and food safety threats are raising public awareness due to their potential high impact on food security, human health, livelihoods, and trade. These threats have highlighted the need to predict such threats in a comprehensive and integrated manner, oriented at the whole food chain. Predicting threats will allow timelier...[Read full PDF<http://www.fao.org/3/CA3154EN/ca3154en.pdf>]
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Upcoming meetings
· Africa Sustainable Livestock (ASL)2050 Scenario Planning Report validation workshop
11-12 February 2019 ::: Lafia Nasarawa state, Nigeria
[Visit FAO Nigeria website<http://www.fao.org/nigeria/en/>]
· National Stakeholder's Consultative Workshop Emerging Diseases Threats Next Generation (EDiT-NEXT GEN) Program
11-14 February 2019 ::: Alexandria, Egypt
[Visit FAO Egypt website<http://www.fao.org/egypt/en/>]
· Joint Risk Assessment (JRA) Pilot Workshop
11-15 February 22019 ::: Morogoro, Tanzania
[Visit FAO Tanzania website<http://www.fao.org/tanzania/en/>]
· Future Livestock Scenarios to Foster Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards Sustainable Food Systems (FAO Panel Session and Side Event at the 4th International Conference on One Medicine One Science, iCOMOS 2019)
11-15 February 2019 ::: Chiang Mai, Thailand
[Visit conference website<http://icomos2019.cmu.ac.th/index.php?page=home>]
· 1st Standing Group of Experts on Rabies in Europe (SGE RAB1)
13 February 2019 ::: Brussels, Belgium
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