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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) conducted a training for 15 public veterinarians from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to become trainers in
participatory epidemiology and participatory disease search (PE/ PDS). The training was based on the outcomes of a regional meeting conducted in January 2019 in Kenya. This meeting identified...[Read
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In the context of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Project (GCP/GLO/892/USA) funded by the US Defence Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) entitled “Strengthening
Global Veterinary Epidemiology Capabilities and Rapid Regional Disease Surveillance Information and Sharing”, a 5-day training workshop was organized...[Read
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In an effort to improve the capacity of countries to promptly react to fast-moving transboundary animal diseases, the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia has developed
a series of awareness materials in different languages on priority diseases of the region. After leaflets and posters, now videos have been produced...[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 the Russian Federation. 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
countries...[Read more]
A close and effective collaboration between the two disciplines of epidemiology and laboratory is an important foundation for disease surveillance, disease prevention and capacity
development. Annual meetings of the Network of Epidemiology and Laboratory (Epi-Labnet) working group play an important role in making sure such collaboration is firmly built and maintained to support disease surveillance in animals...[Read
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Lao PDR in collaboration with the Department of Livestock and Fisheries (DLF), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
is organising a three-day review meeting of the regional project on ‘Evidence-Based Risk Management along the Livestock Production and Market Chain’, which is being held...[Read
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In light of FAO’s aim for Zero Hunger by 2030 for an estimated 8.5 billion people, a One Health or multi-sectoral, multidisciplinary approach is necessary. Currently, 1/3 people
is malnourished, a large share of food produced is wasted and green-house gas emissions are exacerbating climate change jeopardizing crop, livestock aquaculture and fish farming. Furthermore, there is increasing competition for natural resources and outbreaks
of transboundary pests and diseases...[Read more]
A pig disease originating from Southeast Africa, never before seen in Europe and Central Asia, hit the news in 2007 when it was first detected in Georgia. Since then, African swine
fever has spread throughout Eastern Europe, entering the European Union in 2014. Despite huge efforts and investments...[Read
more]
Upcoming meetings
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Foot-and-Mouth Disease Investigation Training Course in Russian
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Meeting to further develop the Technical guidelines for conducting a rapid risk assessment (RRA)
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Cross-border simulation exercise (SIMEX) on Rift Valley Fever (RVF)
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Consultative stakeholder workshop to review and finalize the technical and policy documents on prevention and control of the three priority
zoonotic diseases (PZDs)
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Atelier de réflexion sur la stratégie de lutte efficace contre l'Influenza Aviaire (IA), provoquée par les virus de sous-type «A» H9N2 et
H5N1 en Côte d’Ivoire
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EuFMD Standing Technical Committee
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Groupe thématique sur : "la contribution de l'élevage à la lutte contre la résistance aux anitibiotiques"
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Ministerial Conference on antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
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25th Annual meeting of the national reference laboratories for avian influenza and newcastle disease of European Union member states 2019
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2nd Foot-and-Mouth Disease Roadmap meeting for West Africa
Interesting links
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Boletín Resistencia a los Antimicrobianos
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The impact of livestock on biodiversity
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Nutrient flows and associated environmental impacts in livestock supply chains
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Michael Sanderson, Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology at @KState about the economic barriers
to sustained supply of quality vaccine in the US
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