This concept was used in latter part of rinderpest control. The vaccination was strategic and focused in case of outbreaks. This strategy prevented spread of the virus from the endemic foci thus reducing the chances of widespread infection and strategic vaccination led to accelerated eradication of the rinderpest virus. Example , in rinderpest disease eradication in Sudan, the nongovernmental organisations( NGOs), assisted in training communities in delivering the animal health services especially rinderpest vaccine delivery and vaccination of livestock.Trained community based animal health workers (CBAHWS) were then used to vaccinate millions of cattle against rinderpest in war torn areas of Sudan using rinderpest thermostable vaccine- thus eliminating rinderpest virus in Sudan. For this concept to work in PPR eradication process , effective partnership between national government , nongovernmental organisations( NGOs), private practioners, communities and other stakeholders / agencies involved in animal disease control is critical. However,The question is "would prevailing animal health legislations in various countries allow the use community based animal health workers (CBAHWS) and livestock keepers in PPR vaccine delivery and vaccination?". Eunice K.Ndungu On Friday, February 14, 2014 12:36 PM, Paul Rossiter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Dear All This raises an interesting question. If we have a reliable thermostable vaccine that might survive ragged cold chains, can we move to making the vaccine available in endemic areas for livestock keepers and their health workers to purchase and have administered? It wouldn't work everywhere I know, but there may be places where it could. It would decrease the need for massive and hard to organise vaccine campaigns. Nick Honhold BVSc MSc PhD MRCVS DipECVPH Independent veterinary epidemiologist This concept is very relevant because I don't think that we can expect public resources to do everything that will be required. The involvement of the private sector and individual livestock owners will be important and where appropriate need to be integrated with more "centralized" approaches to vaccine delivery and disease surveillance elsewhere. More comments please - Moderator. ________________________________ 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 ######################################################################## 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