Dear Colleagues,
I believe the vaccination should be done widely and thoroughly
as suggested by Dr. Bill Taylor. Half hearted approach will not work. But with
vaccination, surveillance for clinical outbreaks have to be strengthened and
each outbreak should traced both backward and forward. Movement control and Ring
vaccination in case of outbreaks should also be ensured.
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)
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Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 12:16 AM
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Subject: Another Good Question; this time from Drs Taylor and Kivaria.
Dear Colleagues,
Dr Bill Taylor, who is very well known to most of
us, made a striking challenge in his contribution. He
suggested that unless we use vaccine sufficiently widely
and thoroughly to stop transmission of the virus in its endemic
heartlands (moderator's summary) then we are simply going to help virus
perpetuation. Therefore, "why waste public resources
vaccinating?" The idea received support from Dr Kivaria who went
even further to say that perhaps we should just live with the
disease. I wonder how many of us think the same?
Would some of you like to comment on Dr Taylor's and Dr Kivaria's
suggestions giving us feedback on how you see public finances being used
to bring about serious "progressive control" or whether this disease
could just be left to itself and to the the private sector.
In a way the topic leads to the basic question of
why do we want to eradicate PPR? We all assume this has
been answered but has it? Some reasons have been put forward in a few
contributions to the conference but are they enough to convince policy and
decision makers and those who hold the purse strings?
With regards - moderator.
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