Dear Colleagues I would like to comment on Fredrick viewpoint while saying that sero-monitoring with out properly and statistically designed and analysed will just be wastage of resources and time but at the same time vaccination twice a year will again put a significant pressure (in terms of money & time) on the already inadequately resourced veterinary services. Therefore, I feel there is a need for an advocacy campaign for the enhancement and institutionalisation of the epidemiological and analytical capacity / skills of national veterinary services which will enable to have risk based vaccination strategies in conjunction with sero-monitoring while utilizing their resources efficiently. Akram Logo's FAO small Dr.Muhammad Akram DVM, M.Sc (Hons), MPH (Canada), Ph.D Consultant (Regional Epidemiology Center Assistant Coordinator) Regional Support Unit Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) Unit (SAARC) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations PO Box 25, KSK Building 'B', Third Floor Pulchowk Kathmandu, Nepal Tel: +977-1-5010313-15 (ext-117) Fax: +977-1-5010312 Mob:+977-9801020232 Website: http://www.saarc-rsu-hped.org/ ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FAO-AnimalHealth-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=FAO-AnimalHealth-L&A=1