Many thanks to John Bashiruddin and Mary Marshall, respectively the CA-coordinator and the organiser of the CA-workshop, for their work and help to add an extra dimension to the 2-day event; and for providing these presentations
Vesicular Diseases ControlInstitute for Animal Health, Pirbright, UK Second International Disease Control Workshop Stakeholders’ Interests in the use of Science/Technology and Decision Making. The future of science-based prevention and control of transboundary animal diseases.
Institute for Animal Health, Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey GU24 0NF, UNITED KINGDOM Foot-and-mouth disease 2007: An update from the Institute for Animal Health An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on a cattle farm in Surrey, UK, was confirmed on Friday 3rd August 2007, the first FMD outbreak in the UK since 2001. Subsequent outbreaks have affected eight premises (10 separate holdings) in two temporally and spatially distinct clusters.The initial outbreaks affecting 2 infected premises (IPs: IP1 and IP2b/c) occurred within 5 km of the Pirbright laboratory site which houses the Institute for Animal Health (IAH) and Merial Animal Health Limited.
Towards acceptable vaccination policies
Agricultural systems in very different regions of the world are now increasingly connected. This causes pathogens to travel faster, increasing risks to livestock and their owners. Especially when we find that costs of animal disease outbreaks are increasing. Farms, food companies and retail business become bigger, and so are the financial risks.
Intervet International b.v From reaction to pro-action New disease outbreaks might be caused by known diseases, for which tools are available or by new diseases, for which new tools have to be developed in an emergency program. In the future new diseases will generally have a zoonotic character, which will add even more urgency to the reaction of the authorities.
Towards a reinforced role for bio-containment manufacturing laboratories. For more than 50 years, bio- containment industrial facilities have manufactured vaccines which greatly help to control en even eradicate foot-and-mouth disease in many countries. These facilities have also proved to be adaptable for the production of vaccines against other emerging diseases such as African horse sickness of bluetongue.
CIDC, Lelystad, The Netherlands Overview of the bluetongue situation in Europe with emphasis on Culicoides vectors.
Bluetongue (represented by serotype 8) appeared in northern Europe in August 2006. Subsequently, it spread across five Member States (MSs) and by December had affected an area of approximately 170 000 km2. Both cattle and sheep showed clinical signs and at least two species of Culicoides i.e. C. obsoletus and C. dewulfi were shown to be involved in its transmission. All affected MSs initiated national entomological surveillance programmes with the result that Culicoides are now monitored widely using mainly Onderstepoort-type blacklight traps. The most significant findings made over the past year are summarised and discussed with emphasis on The Netherlands, where 20 farms are sampled weekly.
The Hill Farming Initiative and the Northern Dales farmers Market LtdLow Oxque Farm, Marrick, Nr Richmond, Yorkshire DL11 7LJ Observations of a small scale hill farmer affected by FMD restrictions Foot and Mouth disease for a livestock producer is a disaster both emotionally and financially. Decisions over his business will be made by others who can not realise what it is like to be at the receiving end of those decisions. The feeling of helplessness will last for a lifetime and the torture and anguish of a cull will always be a nightmare. It is therefore extremely important that lines of communication remain open and available between decision maker and producer.
Veterinary Adviser, Scottish Government, Pentland House, Edinburgh Research and development of new controls to respond to changing farming practices and emerging disease threats “Strategic use of veterinary practitioners” In the event of an outbreak of exotic notifiable disease there will be an increased requirement for veterinarians that will be both sudden and difficult to quantify in numbers required and the length of time they will be needed.
The British Veterinary Association (BVA) The practitioner and research laboratory-a symbiotic relationship? The British Veterinary Association (BVA) is the national representative body for the veterinary profession in the United Kingdom and represents over 10,000 members. Our chief interest is to protect and promote the interests of the veterinary profession in this country and we therefore take a keen interest in all issues affecting the veterinary profession, be they animal health, animal welfare, public healthor employment concerns.
Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis, National Reference Laboratory for Exotic Diseases, Sensemattstrasse 293, 3147 Mittelhäusern, Switzerland Laboratory accidents; how to prevent them. Animal diseases such as foot and mouth disease, avian influenza and classical swine fever are continuing threats to our livestock and the outbreak of these diseases always have an enormous impact on agriculture as well as on the economy of the given country (Herholz et al, 2006).
Centaur Science Group, Washington DC, USA A close to real time surveillance, reporting and detection system for control and elimination of transboundary livestock diseases
