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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), jointly with WHO, OIE, ECOWAS and WAHO promotes a holistic and
multidisciplinary approach to advocate for the much needed One Health initiative in the West African region. For FAO, the One Health approach is a prerequisite for ensuring public and animal health security, building agro-ecological resilience...[Read
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It was less than two months ago that FAO issued a warning that H5N8 avian influenza virus had been detected in wild birds in Tyva
Republic in southern Russia and would likely spread in a south-westerly direction with the autumn migration of waterbirds. The virus, which is highly pathogenic for poultry, appears already to have travelled...[Read
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Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Disease (ECTAD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO-Egypt)
has conducted practical training course for laboratory staff in Animal Health Research Institute (AHRI), National Research Center (NRC), Ministry of Health (MOH) and other relevant institution on standardized...[Read
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Launched in October 2013, the LinkTADs research consortium is a 3-year initiative funded under the European Commission (EC) Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7), which aims to coordinate research on transboundary animal diseases and zoonoses (both epidemiology and laboratory aspects) between the European Union and China. The project ended in October 2016...[Read
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Ha Noi - FAO Viet Nam's Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), in collaboration with the Department of Animal
Health (DAH), organized a Consultation Workshop entitled: ‘Viet Nam Action Plan for Antimicrobial Usage (AMU)/Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) reduction in Livestock Sector’ on 1 November 2016 in Hanoi. The aim of the workshop...[Read
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Upcoming events
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One Health technical and ministerial meeting to address zoonotic diseases and related public health threats ·
2nd WVA-WMA Global Conference on One Health ·
Training on Transport of Infectious Substance by Air ·
Consultation Workshop on Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance
Interesting links
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Deuxième phase de la
campagne
nationale
de vaccination des gros
et petits bétails:
la FAO appuie
le Gouvernement
centrafricain ·
Reducing Enteric Methane for improving food security and livelihoods |
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EMPRES website ::: http://www.fao.org/AG/empres.html |
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