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Awareness of farmers and capacity building of vets and para-vets in disease
identification and epidemiology are crucial to the PPR control program. We
are also working towards these and will appreciate if someone can share
relevant literature in this regard.

 

Dr. M. Afzal, D.V.M. M.Sc.(UAF), Ph.D.(USA)

Project Coordinator (GCP/PAK/127/USA)

Progressive Control of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) in Pakistan

FAO Pakistan Office, Park Road

Islamabad

Phone: 051-9255890           Fax: 051-9255891            Cell: 0346-8544161

 

 

 

From: Establishment of a PPR Global Research and Expertise Network
(PPR-GREN) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul
Rossiter
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 12:49 PM
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Subject: From Dr George Gitao: PPR in East Africa

 

Dear Colleagues, 

  

In East Africa, PPR is a relatively new disease but has spread relatively
fast  to cover the whole region since 2007 when cases were first noticed in
the Karamajong area . Some of the factors that have contributed to this
rapid spread include lack of awareness  while undertaking livestock
emergency activities like restocking after drought. It is known  that the
first cases in Moyale, Kenya  in 2008  occurred when  sheep and goats  were
trucked from outside the border for a re-stocking programme, where they were
cheaper and yet that country was enzootic.  

One of the most effective PPR disease control strategy that can be adapted
by others include the finding that among the Turkana pastoralists, sickly
goats and sheep are kept in isolation and the individual pastoralist is not
allowed to mix his animals with the others in the community while watering
or grazing.  This regulation is implemented by community elders and strict
traditional fines are applied to prevent breaking the rules. Such  practices
need to be identified and documented as  such an idea is acceptable to those
pastoralists and  can be widely adapted  and thus avoid  the widely held
resentment of costly  PPR  disease control from headquarters

While clinical PPR signs in Turkana were typical, in Mtwara, South Tanzania,
there were extensive skin nodules throughout the body , abortion and
genitalia lesions  on top of the typical signs. It would be important to
find out  the scope of diversity in clinical signs as it determines case
definition and  the content of messages for disease recognition. Enhanced
disease recognition by  communities will increase chances of control.

While we were able to confirm PPR through real time PCR in Kenya and
conventional  PCR in Tanzania,  these technologies are not widely available
and capacity to run them is minimal. Cheap diagnostic kits would be
preferable for more widespread confirmation if comprehensive control is to
be  achieved.   We were also able to perform experimental infection in goats
and sheep and re-confirm these with PCR.  Our  work in Tanzania convinced
the Government to initiate vaccination in the Mtwara region

Lastly, inadequate  coverage  or untimely vaccination is prevalent in in
East Africa  as the reasons  are mostly political rather than strategic
objectives

Dr. Gitao C. G

Senior Lecturer,   University of Nairobi

Dept of  Vet. Pathology and Microbiology

P.O. Box 29053, code OO625, Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: +254721846346

Head:  Regional project on Capacity Building in PPR control in East  Africa

 

 

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