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Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a newly emerged transboundary animal disease spreading throughout the Middle East, Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. Introduction of LSD virus
into naïve population causes considerable economic losses due to death of cattle, decrease of their productivity, the cost of vaccination campaigns, and its effects on trade. The risk of an imminent incursion...[Read
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Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a newly emerged transboundary animal disease spreading throughout the Middle East, Turkey, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. Introduction of LSD virus
into naïve population causes considerable economic losses due to death of cattle, decrease of their productivity, the cost of vaccination campaigns, and its effects on trade. The risk of an imminent incursion into neighboring still unaffected...[Read
more]
The government of Pakistan has approved a project to improve food security and increase the resilience of livelihood of the livestock farmers to animal disease threats. Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Ministry of National Food Security and Research signed the USD 6.6 million project agreement in Islamabad titled “Risk based control of...[Read
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The China Animal Health and Epidemiology Centre (CAHEC) sent their technical officials to Viet Nam from 9 – 10 April to gain experience on the Pen-side PCR application for avian influenza H7N9
virus surveillance programme and share experience on avian influenza (AI) surveillance and control activities with Viet Nam...[Read
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he Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) assisted the Government of Ethiopia in reviewing legislations relevant to Antimicrobial Use (AMU) and Antimicrobial Resistance
(AMR). The review process was conducted by a national legal consultant from February to April 2018. Almost all the available regulations in the country that could contribute to reduce unnecessary AMU and AMR were reviewed...[Read
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With the intent of aiding efforts towards the elimination of the human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, FAO and WHO jointly held a training course for Eastern
and Southern African countries. The training was aimed at country level health experts, and focused on the utilization of the Atlas...[Read
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Upcoming meetings
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One Health Congress
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Project inception meeting “Strengthening One Health approaches for countries in the Asia Pacific Region
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MediLabSecure project conference
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3rd East African Roadmap Meeting on the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Progressive Control Pathway (FMD-PCP)
Recent publications / newsletters
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FAO ECTAD Ethiopia newsletter
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FAO ECTAD Senegal newsletter
Useful links
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21st Session of African Forestry and Wildlife Commission opens in Dakar |
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EMPRES website ::: http://www.fao.org/AG/empres.html |
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