Dear Paul:
How about movement control and restriction plus bio-security measures including disinfection procedures which are essential in control and eradication programs.

Thanks,
Dr Darab Abdollahi.
I fully agree that these are good "Best Practises" that we should employ in PPR control as for all infectious diseases.   Earlier in the conference I mentioned the difficulties we face with the rapid movement of sheep and goats over long distances. I also remember a tragic outbreak of severe cattle plague in northen Pakistan where the inhabitants of a village high in the mountains lost nearly all their cattle and yaks. They re-stocked too soon and without vaccination and lost many of the new animals.  They had not cleansed the animal barns and sheds where the previous inhabitants  had sickened and died  (conditions were at or below freezing) and they failed to separate the new animals from the few convalescents. Whether or not these were the sources of infection was not proved - and it is possible some of the new animals were already infected when purchased.  One way or another -  a lot of animals died quite unecessarily. The villagers believed that they had not been given sufficient good advice and the veterinarians of course believed that the village has failed to heed good advice.    So,  clear guidelines on disinfection, restocking (preferably with immune animals)  and movement control are important.  However, given all that, we also know that rinderpest and PPR (so far on a local level) can be eradicated without strict hygiene and with only minimal movement control.  For this reason I tend to see these measures more as a sub-theme rather than a full theme for PPR-GREN but welcome further comments from you and other participants.  - Moderator.


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