FAO-EMPRES Animal Health News

Technical meeting held to help ensure global preparation if rinderpest re-emerges

 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Rinderpest-Secretariat organized a technical meeting to discuss the Global Rinderpest Action Plan (GRAP) at FAO headquarters from 28-29 March 2017. Participants included representatives from the FAO-OIE Rinderpest Joint Advisory Committee (JAC), FAO, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), African Union Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), The Pirbright Institute, Japan National Institute of Animal Health (NIAH) and the Botswana Vaccine Institute (BVI)...[Read more]

 


 

H5N8 HPAI in Uganda - Further spread in Uganda and neighbouring countries
FAO Animal Health Risk Analysis ::: Assessment

 

On January 2, 2017, massive mortality in wild birds (white-winged terns, Chlidonias leucopterus) was reported in Uganda. The incident started in mid-December, 2016 along the shores of Lake Victoria. The H5N8 High Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus was recognised as the cause of this mortality. Further wild birds were found dead and the infection was diagnosed also in some backyard poultry farms in the same are around the Lake Victoria. The finding of H5N1 HPAI in Uganda, in an area bordering four different countries and characterised by a consistent wild waterbird populations and a high density of poultry farms, especially backyard flocks, raise a lot of concerns for the possibility of spread of the infection within the whole region. The scope of this risk assessment is to provide useful scientific information for decision-makers a risk assessment has been performed using a structured expert elicitation approach. Risk assessment, supporting decision makers and national veterinary authorities...[Read more]

 


 

National "cascade training" course on FMD now supported by Italy
FAO Animal Production and Health news

 

The EuFMD has been running foot-and-mouth disease Real Time Training (RTT) courses since 2009. Over 700 vets from 50 countries in the field in Turkey, Kenya and Nepal have been trained and all have gone home with a much greater understanding of the issues involved in FMD control in both free countries and those endemic with FMD...[Read more]

 


 

Recent publications / newsletters

 

·         FAO Initiatives on prevention and control of Antimicrobial Resistance
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·         FAO China ECTAD Highlights
March 2017, vol. 98
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·         Antimicrobial Resistance in Food and Agriculture
FCC-EMPRES Information Sheet, No. 4-April 2017
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·         Propagation de l’influenza aviaire hautement pathogène (H5N1 HPAI) au Moyen-Orient: évaluation des risques
EMPRES Watch ::: Vol.36 - Septembre 2016
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·         Lutter contre l’influenza aviaire hautement pathogène H5N1
Faire face à l’influenza aviaire hautement pathogène H5N1 ::: Fascicule 4 - Octobre 2016
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·         South Asia Weekly Animal Disease E-Information
Vol 6 (2017), No 16, 20 April 2017
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Upcoming events

 

·         African Sustainable Livestock “ASL2050” meeting 
23-27 April 2017 (Cairo, Egypt)
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·         Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) vaccine producers meeting
25-27 April 2017 (Mohammedia-Casablanca, Morocco)
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·         Peste des petits ruminants - Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries: China, Mongolia and Timor Leste: Regional Roadmap Meeting
26-28 April 2017 (Qingdao, People’s Republic of China)
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·         World Veterinary Day 2017
29 April 2017
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·         Third International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance (ICAHS) 
30 April - 4 May 2017 (Rotorua, New Zealand)
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Interesting links

 

·         VIDEO ::: VNR World Antibiotic Awareness Week
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·         Pasture management reforms yielding good results in Tajikistan
News by FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia ::: 20 April 2017
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