Paul

Can I just say that I was really trying to make two points. Firstly, that if all countries where PPR is presently endemic raise the small ruminant immunity level to a level where transmission is halted then eradication will have been achieved, but this elevation must be done at the same time across the board. Failure to synchronise such a vaccination effort will result in an endemic focus persisting somewhere within the spread of participating territories and a subsequent return to widespread endemicity. While not directly involved, I do not see finance or domestic policy priorities stepping up for another global campaign.

The other point I was trying to make was that there probably are a number of self-help steps that the small ruminant community may already own whereby losses within the (default) endemic situation might be reduced. If such community wisdom exists it ought to be harvested, evaluated and thereafter used as community training extension messages. Should such wisdom need reinforcing then we should look to veterinary public health measures to play a role,especially in cleaning up supply chains which I think play a part in distributing infection(s).

Bill Taylor 




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