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Shaping One Health: Towards integrated animal health-food safety surveillance in East Africa

 

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_220213a.jpgAnimal diseases have wide ranging impacts on both animals and people, from decimating livestock and wildlife to threatening public health, compromising food safety and crippling livelihoods. Points of emergence and re-emergence of these diseases are just as varied as their impacts, with pathogens surfacing in domestic animals, wildlife, the environment and along the agri-food production and distribution chain. Therefore, prevention and control activities must be just as wide reaching. Funded by the Government of Ireland under the One Health agenda for improved health of people, animals, plants and environment, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) held two workshops (one regional, one national) in Entebbe, Uganda...[Read more]

 

 


 

An update on the emerging novel coronavirus

 

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_220213b.jpgThe recent implication of a new emerging human coronavirus (hCoV-EMC) as the cause of a fatal respiratory disease in the Middle East and Europe emphasizes the importance of surveillance for coronaviruses (CoV), which have shown the potential to spill-over from an animal reservoir into the human population in recent years. To date, however, the hCoV-EMC has not been identified in other animal species...[Read more]

 


 

Regulatory frameworks for control of HPAI and other TADs

 

http://www-data.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_150213.jpgThe Handbook on regulatory frameworks for the control and eradication of HPAI and other transboundary animal diseases adopts the principles and approach of One Health by creating an understanding of the context in which diseases emerge, and by presenting the two key issues -  legislation and regulatory frameworks -  for the attention of administrators and policy-makers. The Handbook explains the critical role of regulatory frameworks (policy and institutional) on animal health and the need for close cooperation within countries between people who have technical veterinary expertise and those who have legal and regulatory expertise. It further defines the structure and elements of veterinary policy and legislation, the international frame of reference, the interface between veterinary policy, institutions and legislation, and the potential impacts of the national legal tradition on the way that laws are drafted specifically on animal health matters...[Read the full publication]

 

 

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