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FAO looks into the role of international trade and travel in the transboundary spread of pig diseases
| As globalization increases the interconnectedness between nations, economies, and industries, the introduction of diseases
will continue to remain a prominent threat to the livestock sector and the trade of animals and animal products, as well as the livelihoods of farmers, food security and public health. The global pig sector, with its size, production type and biosecurity level,
is particularly vulnerable to the transmission of transboundary animal diseases...[Read more]
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ASF Emergency Preparedness Mission to Myanmar
FAO Myanmar representation
| The FAO Emergency Management Centre for Animal Health launched a mission this week in Myanmar to heighten preparedness for
African swine fever. The mission was conducted in partnership with the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, FAO Myanmar, World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and Myanmar Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department...[Read
more]
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Japan, FAO hand over project for emergency support to assist small-scale farmers in overcoming bird flu and FAW
FAO Zimbabwe representation
| The Government of Japan and FAO handed over to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement a
project to strengthen the capacity of small-scale farmers and Government to rapidly respond to two transboundary threats, the fall armyworm (FAW) and highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). The project was implemented by...[Read
more]
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Safeguard Viet Nam poultry industry with coordinated surveillance
FAO Viet Nam representation
| The Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), FAO Viet Nam in collaboration with Department of Animal Health
(DAH) and the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention of...[Read more]
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Ghana’s Veterinary Services receive high value laboratory equipment to enhance its effort in complying with standards of OIE
and the International Health Regulations (IHR)
FAO Ghana representation
| The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has donated veterinary Laboratory equipment and consumables
worth more than seventy thousand United state Dollars to the veterinary...[Read more]
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FAO & GOVS Conduct a workshop to develop work plan for (EDiT NEXT GEN) program for the next two years in Egypt
FAO Egypt representation
| The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and The General Organization for Veterinary Services (GOVS)
conducted a Two-days National Consultative workshop to develop the first 2-years work plan for Emerging Diseases Threats...[Read more]
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FAO, Government of Uganda to operationalize national committees for animal disease surveillance
FAO Uganda representation
| In a joint effort to foster animal health in Uganda, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations have instituted national technical and steering committees to spearhead effective and efficient animal disease surveillance across the country...[Read
more]
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La FAO et l’OIE renforcent la capacité des acteurs régionaux de la santé animale pour la surveillance et le contrôle de la
fièvre aphteuse sur le terrain en Afrique
FAO Côte d'Ivoire representation [only in French]
| La fièvre aphteuse, maladie virale extrêmement contagieuse, qui affecte, à des degrés divers, bovins, buffles, porcs, ovins,
caprins, camélidés et certaines espèces sauvages, touche gravement les acteurs de cette filière, tant en termes de pertes de capacités...[Read more]
Upcoming meetings
- Studium Generale on Antimicrobial Resistance and Usage, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Zoonosis in Wijaya Kusuma University
09 March 2019 ::: Surabaya, Indonesia
[Visit FAO Indonesia website] - 12th Standing Group of Experts on African Swine Fever for the Baltic and Eastern Europe region (SGE ASF12)
11-12 March 2019 ::: Prague, Czech Republic
[Visit GF-TADs ASF event page] - FAO-USAID Strategic Planning Bilateral Meeting
12-13 March 2019 ::: Rome, Italy (FAO-HQ) - Consultative Workshop on Legislation to Curb Antimicrobial Resistance in Cambodia
15 March 2019 ::: Phnom Penh, Cambodia
[Visit FAO Cambodia website - Download
agenda] - Training of poultry farmers and live bird market (LBM) operators on biosecurity
18-22 March 2019 ::: Vom, Plateau State, Nigeria
[Visit FAO Nigeria website]
Interesting links
- A framework for reviewing livestock disease reporting systems in high-risk areas: assessing performance and perceptions towards foot and mouth disease reporting in the Thrace region of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey
WILEY Transboundary and Emerging Diseases ::: DOI: 10.1111/tbed.13143
[Read full article] - South Asia Animal Disease Outbreaks and News
Edition 30 ::: February 2019
[Read full newsletter] - Livestock Technical Network special edition on animal feed
08 March 2019
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