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Veterinary Epidemiology Skills and Capacities are at the core of veterinary services to enable to prevent, control and eradicate
animal diseases. FAO has been supporting countries as part of its core mandate. In Asia for instance, FAO is engaged in capacity development and implementation of Field Epidemiology Training Programme for Veterinarians (FETPV) and Applied Veterinary Epidemiology
Training (AVET) in China, Viet Nam, Indonesia and Thailand...[Read more]
The Australian Department of Agriculture and Water Resources' foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) model, the Australian Animal Disease
Model (AADIS) (Bradhurst et al., 2015), was successfully used in two EuFMD-funded disease modelling training workshops in 2014 and 2016. Improving preparedness to respond to an FMD outbreak is a priority of the EuFMD program and increasing the use of decision-support
tools...[Read more]
Southern African countries, jolted by a debilitating avian influenza outbreaks in 2017, have reviewed and updated the regional preparedness
and response plan, which is expected to guide the management and control of the disease. The region first experienced the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) - commonly referred to as the bird flu - last year, which resulted in huge economic losses and
threat to livelihoods and food and nutrition security...[Read more]
A United States-FAO partnership working to strengthen the capacity of developing countries to manage outbreaks of diseases in farm
animals has in just 12 months succeeded in training over 4,700 veterinary health professionals in 25 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The FAO-provided technical trainings covered a gamut of key competencies, including disease surveillance and
forecasting, laboratory operations, biosafety and biosecurity, prevention and control methods and outbreak response strategies...[Read
more]
Since the risk influenza A (H7N9) introduction to Viet Nam increased when the new highly pathogenic strains was detected in China
late 2016, FAO Viet Nam, in collaboration with the Government of Viet Nam, have been swiftly rolling out actions to prevent the H7N9 virus from entering into the country. Although this relatively new strain of avian influenza of Chinese origin has not yet
entered into Viet Nam, it is crucial to strengthen preventive measures as it could bring a substantial threat for public health and poultry production in the country...[Read
more]
What is the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus? Avian influenza (also known as ‘bird flu’) viruses normally circulate among birds. Although
some avian H7 viruses (H7N2, H7N3 and H7N7) have occasionally been found to infect humans, no human infections with H7N9 virus were reported until reports began from China in March 2013. To date there have been no avian influenza H7N9 detected in human nor
chicken in Viet Nam...[Read more]
The Biosecurity Authority of Fiji (BAF) is implementing information technologies in the effort to predict potential occurrence of
diseases which could pose harm to animals and humans (zoonotic diseases). Detection of zoonotic diseases outbreaks is crucial to BAF, as it is the task of the Authority to implement measures for the prevention of animal diseases. The likelihood of outbreaks
of zoonotic diseases such as Leptospirosis, Brucellosis and Bovine Tuberculosis increase drastically...[Read
more]
Ce mercredi 14 mars 2018, le Ministre de l’Agriculture et de l’Elevage Dr Déo Guide RUREMA, au nom du Gouvernement du Burundi et
le Représentant de la FAO au Burundi, Monsieur Isaias ANGUE OBAMA qui a représenté cette institution ont procédé à la signature de lancement du projet «Assistance d’urgence pour le contrôle de la Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) au Burundi...[Read
more]
Recent publications
The United States Agency for International Development and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations are working
together to keep the world safe from infectious disease threats. Their two key programmes – Global Health Security Agenda and Emerging Pandemic Threats – are building animal health capacity to prevent, detect and respond to disease threats in over 30 countries.
The Global Health Security Agenda programme develops national capacity to prevent zoonotic and non-zoonotic diseases while quickly and effectively detecting and controlling diseases when they do emerge. The Emerging Pandemic Threats programme improves national
capacity to pre-empt the emergence and re-emergence of infectious zoonotic disease and to prevent the next pandemic. Action against emerging...[Read
full PDF]
Upcoming meetings
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Second Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Regional Roadmap Meeting for SAARC
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Accelerating progress in the Real-Time Biosurveillance Action Package of
GHSA” regarding communicable disease surveillance within the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)
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4th Annual GARA Scientific Workshop
Interesting links
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FAO launched the damages and losses report at the Regional Conference on
Strengthening Resilient Food and Agriculture Systems
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FAO launches mobile application to support fight against Fall Armyworm
in Africa
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Data on pastoralism from pastoralists: Mongolian pastoralists gather to
initiate community-driven data collection
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Information and communications technologies are essential to the empowerment
and success of poor rural women |
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