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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), on Monday, 29 January 2018
trained sixty Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs) to provide support to improve the country’s animal health service delivery. The 60 CAHWs underwent twenty-three sessions on animal health management, using the recently revised...[Read
more]
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) strengthened veterinary laboratories capacities across Ghana by donating laboratory equipment, reagents, and other
consumables. The gesture is in support of the government’s efforts to build the diagnostic...[Read more]
Today a new livestock market was officially opened in Al
Dahrieh, Hebron to serve directly 2 000 herders in addition to the consumers living in the area. The livestock market was established by the Al
Dahrieh Municipality with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture...[Read
more]
Training on zoonotic diseases surveillance in Africa started today, with the aim of detecting diseases early to prevent and minimize loss of human and animal lives. The Training
on Risk Analysis Along Livestock Value Chains for Priority Zoonotic Diseases Surveillance in Africa was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...[Read
more]
FAO’s lumpy skin disease (LSD) field manual for veterinarians is now available in six languages to aid in the prevention and control of the cattle disease that has established a
large foothold in Europe since 2015. This complements well the recently concluded train-the-trainer session, covering also another ruminant disease, the bluetongue, in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia...[Read
more]
With the help of new equipment and training, the Ukrainian pork sector is taking further steps to enhance its monitoring and containment of African swine fever (ASF). In recent
years, ASF – a deadly swine disease not transmittable to humans – has put the Ukrainian pork sector at risk, and with it the food security and livelihoods of many within the country. Since 2012, there have been 326...[Read
more]
Zoonotic diseases and misuse of antibiotics in animals and humans resulting in antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are converging in Asia-Pacific countries with potential deadly effects...[Read
more]
Les
antimicrobiens jouent un
rôle critique dans le traitement des
maladies animales (aquatiques et terrestres).
Leur utilisation
est essentielle pour la
sécurité sanitaire,
alimentaire et pour le bien-être des
hommes et des animaux.
Toutefois, l’utilisation inappropriée de ces
médicaments...[Read
more]
Recent publications
Rift Valley fever (RVF) virus, a mosquito-borne zoonotic agent, causes haemorrhagic fever in humans, and abortion and neonatal death in livestock. Outbreaks have caused national
meat markets to collapse and have in the past caused regional trade embargoes. The geography of infection and clinical disease is expanding. Climate change is expected to accelerate this spread. The known geographic range of the virus is already larger than
the areas where clinical disease has been observed. Effective surveillance is essential to mitigate the impact of RVF on lives, livelihoods and national economies. The RVF Surveillance Manual provides risk-based guidance for designing, planning and implementing
effective participatory and syndromic surveillance. It builds on approaches outlined in the OIE Guide to Terrestrial Animal Health Surveillance and the RVF Decision Support Framework. It shows you how to tailor this guidance to the epidemiological needs of
individual countries, starting with setting appropriate objectives. RVF surveillance objectives need to be in line with the country’s risk category and economic goals. Selecting the most appropriate indicators and methods for the situation follows easily from
these goals and objectives. The manual is not prescriptive. Instead, it suggests questions to help you build a timely and sensitive surveillance system suited to national objectives and resources...[Read
full manual]
Upcoming meetings
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Training on rabies diagnosis
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1st Advisory Board Meeting of Indian Network for Fisheries and Animal Antimicrobial Resistance (INFAAR)
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Socio Economic Evaluation of the 2016 Rift Valley Fever outbreaks in Niger
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Emerging Pandemic Threat Technical Working Group meeting
Recent publications
Rif Valley fever surveillance
Useful links
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FAO Guides Duck Breeders in Increasing Production |
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