Dear colleagues
Thanks for fruitful deliberations, I learned a lot on PPR epidemiology and control
In case of Somalia where there was no properly functioning institution in place, and the current government is restricted in certain areas, where rebels control other areas, it was NGOs, private veterinary professionals, local community and community animal health workers CAHWs done extensive surveillance, PDS and targeted vaccination which enabled Somalia to achieved free from RP infection certificate awarded on May 2010.
Currently PPR replaced rinderpest outbreaks occur often, initial PPR was confirmed in 2005 in Awdal region but later spread through out Somalia various NGOs, FAO in collaboration with Somali administrations done targeted vaccinations but still we see PPR like symptoms, most likely uncontrolled livestock movement across borders for livestock trade purposes made the situation more worse.
I think with availability of thermo stable vaccine, and continuous surveillance and targeted vaccinations outbreaks of PPR could be reduced to minimum.
Thank you,
jabra
Dr Mahamoud H Hassan Ali (jabra)
National Epidemiologist
Somali Animal Health Services Project
P.O.Box 74916, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya.
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 02:52:03 -0800
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Subject: Re: From Dr Nick Honhold responding to Dr David Shamaki's contribution
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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.
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