Influenza Risk Assessment and Risk Modelling: Pandemic Influenza Threats and Beyond From 7-9 November, FAO will host an Influenza Risk Assessment and Risk Modelling workshop in Rome, Italy, bringing together experts in influenza risk analysis from across the globe to discuss the latest techniques, share information and open new channels to combine their data and knowledge to better pinpoint high-risk areas for the emergence of pandemic strains of influenza and other potentially lethal pathogens shared among people, livestock and wildlife...[Read full news]
US increases funding to combat influenza and emerging disease threats FAO’s commitment to fight emerging disease threats in "hotspot" regions worldwide is getting a boost with new funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The funding amounts to more than $20 million...[Read full news]
Taking the Laboratory into the Field Rapid and Early Animal Disease Diagnosis with Nuclear Applications ::: News from the Joint FAO-IAEA Programme After a four-hour drive over dusty, potholed roads, the vets finally reach their first destination - Yagoua in the Far North region of Cameroon. The team consults with the local animal health services and then heads further north towards the Chad border to a village where goats have reportedly been dying...
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Upcoming events · 2nd FLURISK Interim meeting 6-7 November 2012 (Rome, Italy) · Influenza risk assessment and risk modelling: Pandemic influenza threats and beyond 7-9 November 2012 (Rome, Italy) · VII Latin America Congress on Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Animal Production 8-10 November 2012 (Belem do Para, Brazil) |