EMPRES-Animal Health e-newsletter

 

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_201213b.jpgFAO and partners coordinate Chinese-EU Animal Health Research with launch of LinkTADs

 

China's exponential economic growth over the last decade has been accompanied by a sharp increase in consumption of animal products. Today, China is the world's largest livestock producer and consumer. The intensification of livestock production has run in parallel with increased urbanisation, a growing human population, increasing international trade of animals and animal products and the expansion of agricultural areas at the expense of wild habitats. These economic, social and demographic shifts affect livestock production and increase the potential for new pathogens to emerge, grow and spread from animals to humans on a global scale. These diseases can spread over long distances and have an enormous impact on trade and livelihoods...[Read more]

 


 

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_201213c.jpgFAO hands over Coordination of Animal Networks to Regional Coordinators in West and Central Africa

 

Regional animal networks have been in place across West and Central Africa since 2007 under the aegis of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) in Bamako, Mali. The networks were set up in order to harmonise laboratory and epidemiological surveillance and provide support to prevent and control Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs). They also serve to build capacities in preparedness, early warning, response and monitoring of veterinary services to countries in the region...[Read more]

 


 

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_201213f.jpgLessons Learned from Vaccination against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza

 

OFFLU, the joint network of expertise on animal influenza between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), organized a technical meeting on vaccination against Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) from 4 to 6 December 2013 in Beijing, China. A similar meeting took place in Verona, Italy in 2007, the recommendations from which are still mostly valid today. However, many of the countries participating in the Beijing meeting, in particular China, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico, have since gained large amounts of experience in the field of vaccination against HPAI...[Read more]

 


 

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_201213i.jpgAvian Influenza Hatchery Vaccination Assessing Added Value

 

Research on vaccination against Avian Influenza has several needs, including the evaluation of the potential benefits of vaccination at hatchery level for the prevention and control of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) conducted a facilitated discussion in Beijing on 3 December 2013 on existing findings regarding the assessment of the added value of hatchery vaccination. Participants included virologists, field experts involved in the control of HPAI, economic experts and scientists from the laboratory division, along with experts from FAO headquarters, the Asia and the Pacific regional office of Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) and the ECTAD office in China...[Read more]

 


 

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/programmes/en/empres/Images/news_201213e.jpgFAO internship gives biosciences student a global view

 

As a participant in the distinguished Career Development Program of the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defence (FAZD), Nazly Shafagati embarked on an 2013 internship within the FAO Animal Health Laboratory Unit. The FAO Lab Unit helps track emerging or endemic animal influenza strains with potential impact on public health and connects epidemiological information to genetic information. The work contributes to the global animal health web-based database developed by FAO called EMPRES-i...[Read more]

 


 

Recent publications

 

·         China Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Highlights
November 2013 ::: Vol.58

 

EMPRES website ::: http://www.fao.org/AG/empres.html
For comments or suggestions ::: [log in to unmask]

http://www.fao.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_b471b08fe9.gif.gif   http://www.fao.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_61ff671cd4.gif.gif   http://www.fao.org/uploads/RTEmagicC_a631c57637.gif.gif

 



To unsubscribe from the EMPRES-Livestock-L list, click the following link:
&*TICKET_URL(EMPRES-Livestock-L,SIGNOFF);