Dears Colleagues,
Thank you moderator for mentioning the constraints that could affect the availability of vaccine for every farmer in need of it.
In my country as in many African and developing countries, we have resources problems either lack of resources or misuse of resources due to lack of priorities determination.Eradication of PPR from my point of view could be acheived through vaccination (when knowing the vaccine efficacy) and animal movement monitoring. But in a country like ours 'Sudan' with sheep and goat population exceeding 20 million head distributed in vast areas in traditional system, even if we have resources to vaccinate all this population; we should think of how can we monitoring and identifying* vaccinated animals.
Resources should be allocated not just for vaccination but also for monitoring of animal movement through states and within livestock markets. Taking into account animal movement to and from neighbouring counties also.
I think first of all before determinig the way of control we should perform a thorough risk
assessment parallel to value chain analysis to address the hotspots that accelerating the outbreaks spread and be aware of every aspect of breeding, trade, grazing,veterinary authority role and disribution,... etc, in particular for developing countries as we already determining the PPR prevalence and endemicity and seasonality pictures of the disease.Then it would be easily for every country to determine the control policy details and implement it according to the findings. Because there is no one policy fitting to all countries**.
with best regards,
Huyam Salih
B.V.Sc, MTAH, PhD student
Veterinary Epidemiology
Sudan- Khartoum
00249 121174702
* Do you mean permanent marking that will assist in movement control and if so can you recommend how this can be done in a cost-effective way? Or do you mean short-term marking for immunization purposes as described by Dr Gijs van t'Klooster in his contribution to the conference last weekend?
** The tactics or local policy may vary between countries but when we embark on a global campaign of progressive control of PPR there will have to be effective regional co-ordination approaches, and one agreed "pathway" to follow. These may influence and harmonize policies. Moderator.