Dear Paul,

They experience of Nick with FMD control using stamping  and compensation may not be applicable with PPR especially in some control where there financial resources are limited and lack of political. PPR is disease mailnly small ruminants which are mostly by rural framers who have little or no political influence on the political class and therefore it may be very difficult to push policy of control using stamping out and compensation.

The only stamping out and compensation strategy which I have seen worked in Nigeria for example is the case of bird flu. This policy succeeded because there a number people in government that were interested in protecting their investment in the poultry industry. Even the compensation fund was from a World Bank facility.

I am not sure whether in the case of PPR you can find the financial resources to implement the stamping out policy and compensation globally or on regional basis.

There are number of PPR control strategies which have been developed by some controls and regions. It will interesting to see the control strategies that have been suggested.

David Shamaki
National Vetrinary Research Institute Vom
Nigeria




On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 1:56 PM, Nick Honhold <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
Hhmm, as one of the field epidemiologists working on FMD in the centre of the outbreak (Cumbria) during 2001, I can certainly share some of the lessons. As a group we published quite a lot on it during and after the outbreak. 

In infected herds, there was no resistance to the cull. The
    compensation scheme was based on full market value and was paid
    rapidly. farmers hated seeing their animals killed but the fear of
    the speed with which FMD can spread was enough to produce
    compliance. If the compensation scheme had not been as generous and
    well operated as it was, I think things would have been very
    different. But as it was, the culling of infected farms was rarely
    resisted. There were issues of how quickly we could get them dead
    and then disposal and these would need to be taken into account.

However, the dangerous contact "at risk" pre-emptive culling policy
    used during the 2001 outbreak was a different matter. For much of
    the outbreak it driven to a large extent by computer modelling and
    the extent of the cull created by this led to great resentment
    amongst farmers even though there was a full value compensation
    scheme. They would rather have kept their animals than allow them to
    be culled when they didn't think the decision to cull was justified.
    Where we could demonstrate a real risk based on contact, they mainly
    accepted the decision, albeit sometimes reluctantly. Where the
    decision was based purely on being a neighbour of an infected farm,
    it produced fury, resistance and left a long lasting legacy of
    mistrust of government veterinary services. And in retrospect we
    have shown that such an automatic culling policy was not required.
    The farmers felt that they knew that at the time. 

I think this emphasises that any stamping out policy must be
    developed in peace time, in collaboration with the livestock keepers
    and hand in hand with a compensation policy.

Nick Honhold
BVSc MSc PhD MRCVS DipECVPH


On 12/02/2014 12:05, Serge T. NZIETCHUENG wrote:

It will be useful to know the lessons learnt of the use of SO during the FMD outbreak in UK will be useful. Is there anyone who can share with us the main lessons learnt?
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>Serge Nzietchueng
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>Le Mercredi 12 février 2014 11h16, Nick Honhold <[log in to unmask]> a écrit :
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>Dear All
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>In my opinion, a stamping out policy for infected
                    units with ring vaccination is perhaps ideal.
                    However, I am not sure that a stamping out policy is
                    necessary as there is no carrier state and little or
                    no spread via fomites. Nor is there any risk to
                    human health. The reason for stamping out would be
                    to stop local spread within a village. For any
                    stamping out policy to be effective, there will NEED
                    to be a properly funded and functioning compensation
                    scheme so that owners do not simply more animals out
                    of an infected village, something that is easy to do
                    with sheep and goats, particularly young ones.
                    Compensation schemes have often not been functional
                    and/or funded. 
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>As animals will either die or recover and have no
                    carrier status, stamping out may not be necessary
                    and could be counter productive. 
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>Nick Honhold
>BVSc MSc PhD MRCVS DipECVPH
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>On 11/02/2014 14:53, Paul Rossiter wrote:
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>Dear Moderator,
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>Just one question to be raised: 
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>Would it be easy to put PPR to an end without stamping out policy?
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>Best regards
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>Wade 
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