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In Libya, veterinarians in the field are carrying out good work to control the current FMD outbreak. In this new episode, Dr Dayhum and Dr Eldaghayes start from the history of the FMD in Libya to contextualize the actual FMD situation in Libya, and highlight experiences and strategies to control the disease. Ibrahim Eldaghayes is a veterinarian and Professor of Virology at the Faculty of Veterinar...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast Against the framework of the EuFMD’s focus on virtual learning and training, Nadia Rumich, EuFMD Communications Officer spoke with Dr Marcello Nardi and Dr Leah Seabrook about learning and how it is possible to measure the impacts of training programmes. Marcello Nardi is Chief Learning Officer at EuFMD and leads the design of a Quality Management (QM) syste...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast. Dr Potzsch and Dr Plavsic speak about the collaboration between EuFMD and OIE in the framework of the implemented activities for improving surveillance and control of Foot-and-mouth and similar transboundary (FAST) animal diseases in the South-East European Neighbourhood, as the sharing of data and information under the Statement of Intentions (GF TADs). Dr...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast. Dr Nick Lyons spoke with Dr Kees Van Maanen about the implementation of small-scale immunogenicity studies for evidenced-based decisions on FMD vaccine selection. Dr Lyons is a veterinary epidemiologist based in the UK, working with EuFMD with a keen interest in the evaluation of vaccines. Dr Van Maanen is a virologist and senior researcher at Royal GD Anim...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast. Dr Bouda Vosough Ahmadi, EuFMD Risk Assessment Specialist, spoke with Dr Isabelle Dieuzy-Labaye, Senior Advisor on Partnerships at the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), about Public-Private Partnership (PPP). PPP is a mechanism to share resources and agree on responsibilities between the public and private sector to improve animal health and welfa...

Nadia Rumich, EuFMD Communications Officer spoke with Dr Garner and Dr Bradhurst about EuFMDiS, a multi-country Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak simulation model. The EuFMDis model can be used to evaluate various control options to eradicate the disease. It is an adaptation of the Australian Animal Disease Spread Model (AADIS). Dr Garner is a veterinary epidemiologist who has worked for EuFMD, foll...

Our FMD Risk Assessment Specialist Dr. Bouda Ahmadi spoke with Dr Gareth Salmon at the FAO HQ in February. They discussed the new website called livestockdata.org that has been launched in May 2020 by The Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D) Community of Practice. The website aligns with the LD4D’s objective to drive informed livestock decision-making through better use of existing data and analyse...

Welcome to the podcast on rapid tests for FMD diagnosis. Dr Chevanne (EuFMD), had a talk with Dr Bakkali-Kassimi (ANSES) on rapid tests for the diagnosis of FMD and their contribution to virological surveillance. A rapid and easy-to-perform test is particularly useful for the confirmation of suspected FMD outbreaks on-site, and the fast implementation of control measures. The inactivation of posit...

Welcome to the podcast for the first issue of the Quarterly Report for 2020. This is also the first Joint report between EuFMD and the WRLFMD, replacing the former Global Monthly Report (GMR) which had been issued by the EuFMD for eight years. Keith Sumption is the Executive Secretary of the EuFMD, and in this podcast he discusses the new Quarterly Report with Donald King, Head of the Vesicular Di...

During the EuFMDiS advisory group Meeting held in Rome at the FAO HQ in January 2020, we met Dr. Gabriele Zancanaro from EFSA. We discussed EFSA’s pilot project “SIGMA” and the possible collaboration with our modelling project “EuFMDiS”. Dr Zancanaro is a doctor in Veterinary Medicine. He was Head Veterinary Offices of Regione Piemonte: reference for the regional National Plan for Residues and for...

During the “Improving neighbourhood surveillance and European preparedness for Foot-And-mouth disease and Similar Transboundary (FAST) animal diseases” workshop organized by EuFMD in Bari on 24 and 25 September 2019, we had the chance to meet the Dr. Germán Caceres Garrido, a Spanish veterinary, and to have an interesting small talk with him. We discussed the EuFMD FAST disease future work-plan as...

Our FMD Risk Assessment Specialist Dr Bouda Ahmadi interviewed Dr Andrew Peters at the FAO HQ. They discussed on the Supporting Evidence-based Interventions (SEBI-livestock) program in Edinburgh which focuses on improving data collection and quality for livestock health and productivity in LMICs Dr Peters is Professor of Tropical Veterinary Medicine at Edinburgh University and Director of SEBI-liv...

We spoke with our EuFMD Veterinary Epidemiologist Dr Melissa McLaws about the Prioritization of Antigen Management with the International Surveillance Tool (PRAGMATIST). This tool has been developed by EuFMD in collaboration with the World Reference Laboratory for FMD, to assist risk managers make decisions about the FMD vaccines that they purchase/maintain, based on current risks to countries cov...

During the “Regional cooperation between Trans Caucasus and neighbouring countries for the prevention and control of FMD and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases” meeting held in Rome at the FAO HQ between the 16th and 17th of September, we spoke with Dr. Tamilla Aliyeva. Our discussion focused on the role of regional collaboration to control FMD and other Transboundary Animal Diseases the expect...

During the “Regional cooperation between Trans Caucasus and neighbouring countries for the prevention and control of FMD and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases” meeting held in Rome at the FAO HQ between the 16th and 17th of September, we spoke with Dr. Carsten Pötzsch on FMD risk assessment and early warning systems through information sharing among countries. Dr. Pötzsch is a veterinary epide...

At the time of the Vaccine Security meeting held in Rome at the FAO HQ on the 22-23 January 2020, Keith Sumption discussed Vaccine Security issues with David Mackay, the team leader on the vaccines project in the EuFMD. They discussed on: • What does the term ‘vaccine security’ mean and why is this important for FAST diseases? What makes the issue particularly challenging for this type of disease?...

During the Presentation of the Warwick project on development of the simulation model for FMD control in endemic areas held in Rome at the FAO HQ on November 22nd , 2019, we spoke with Dr Michael Tildesley and Glen Guyver-Fletcher. We discussed the challenges of developing models for FMD endemic settings. . Mike Tildesley is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Institute and the School of Lif...

During the CIRAD Qualitative Risk mapping & Optimization of national monitoring systems meeting held on 15-19 of July 2019, in Rome at the FAO headquarters, we interviewed Dr Hanan Yousif on the Importance of training on Risk assessment and risk mapping on Transboundary animal diseases. Dr Hanan Yousif obtained her Master Degree at the University of Khartoum, Sudan in veterinary Epidemiology with...

During the CIRAD Qualitative Risk mapping & Optimization of national monitoring systems meeting held on 15-19 of July 2019, in Rome at the FAO headquarters, we interviewed one of the course trainers, Dr. Gabriel Poujol. Dr Poujol spoke with us about the Challenges of the implementation of animal movement in the risk assessment and risk mapping for early detection of transboundary animal diseases....

During the CIRAD Qualitative Risk mapping & Optimization of national monitoring systems meeting held on 15-19 of July 2019, in Rome at the FAO headquarters, we spoke with Dr. Dayhum Abdunaser. We asked Dayhum to go into details about Qualitative risk mapping and optimization of national monitoring systems, with a special focus on the development of risk-based surveillance protocols. After his degr...

During the CIRAD Qualitative Risk mapping & Optimization of national monitoring systems meeting held on 15-19 of July 2019, in Rome at the FAO headquarters, we spoke with one of the course trainers, Dr. Elena Arsevska. Dr Arsevska spoke with us about the national capacities in qualitative risk assessment and risk mapping for FMD and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases and the improvement strateg...

During the SAFOSO Technical meeting on evaluation of emergency preparedness for FMD and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases in North Africa, we interviewed Dr Manon Shuppers. She leads SAFOSO's work on improving national veterinary and food safety systems with a particular focus on strengthening existing national capacities for epidemiology, risk assessment, surveillance and disease control meas...

Keith Sumption, Executive Secretary of the EUFMD

Dr. Joseph Adongo Awuni is a Laboratory expert on FMD in West and Central Africa, and Coordinator of West and Central Africa Veterinary Laboratory Network for Avian Influenza and other trans-boundary diseases. (RESOLAB) Dr. Awuni spoke with our FMD Risk Management Specialist, Dr. Etienne Chevanne at the recent Workshop for PCP Support Officer(PSOs)in Accra, Ghana. They discussed the role of RESOLA...

Dr. Bouda Ahmadi is an FMD Risk Assessment Specialist and an Animal Health Socioeconomics expert. Bouda is working across the EuFMD Pillar II and Pillar III Work Programme, and is contributing to the development of new EuFMD e-learning courses on socio economics and Public-Private partnerships (PPP). Bouda agreed to talk to us about the sometimes overlooked crucial topic of socioeconomics around A...