Dear Dr Akram,
I think it is a good Idea to have a guidlines/SOPs at regional level, which will benefit more than these at National level, specially for the countries having porous borders. These guidlines may some time avoid creation of Immune belts for a longer duration at International borders.
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R.P.Singh
 
Dr. R.P.Singh, 
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Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, 
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Subject: Re: From Dr Muhammad Akram a fundamental question on PPR epidemiology . Plus moderator's comment.

 

Thanks Paul

 

 

Since R0 will help in quantification of transmissibility of the PPR virus from an infected animal to susceptible population in a given geographic location and will guide appropriate intervention including but not limited to stamping out and or ring vaccination therefore I strongly suggest calculation of R0 in different geographic locations. I learnt while working in SAARC region that sharing of data is sensitive for the countries however they can share the results in the form of publication and or periodic reports. So I personally feel that developing guidelines/SOPs by this forum would be useful in  harmonizing the R0 calculation method (s) at regional / national level to understand the dynamics of this disease in space and time.

 

 

Lets see what others say!

 

 

Akram

 

 

 

 

 

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Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:42 PM
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Subject: From Dr Muhammad Akram a fundamental question on PPR epidemiology . Plus moderator's comment.

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

 

 

 

 

I really enjoyed very hot discussions on vaccine and vaccine coverage that lead me to put a question to the forum: "As to what is herd immunity for PPR and its implication to vaccine coverage and has any one worked on estimation of basic reproduction number (R0) and or effective reproduction number (Re) of PPR epidemics"?

 

 

 

 

 

I think answers to these question will help us in proceeding further in the PPR control/ eradication.

 

 

 

 

 

Akram

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One or two contributors have touched on this. I don't think we have calculated R0 for PPR yet but I know thatsome research groups may have either started or are planning to work on this. My question to you and other participants is "Could a network, such as the proposed PPR-GREN we are exploring together, be a forum in which we could develop guidelines/operating procedures for collecting and sharing the kind of data needed to calculate R0 in a number of different locations globally? It would be exciting if we could work together like this. - Moderator. 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr.Muhammad Akram

 

 

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