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Welcome to a new episode of our podcast During the roundtable discussion on exploring animal health solutions for farmers, Dr Miftahul Barbaruah introduced different models for provisions of animal health services to farmers. Before describing various models and key studies, he highlights factors affecting animal health services delivery, few guiding principles, and global policy options. What are...

7 Member Nations: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, the Russian Federation, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Iraq have joined the Statement of Intentions(SOI)between Transcaucasia and neighboring countries. What are the main activities included by this statement? SOI in 2 minutes by Carsten Poetzsch, EuFMD Component Manager in Pillar II for the Southeast European Neighbourhood. How much can y...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast What is the relation between wildlife and domestic animals when it comes to infectious diseases? Rodrigo Nova, EuFMD Training Technical Coordinator, discuss with Christian Gortazar, Veterinarian and Professor at the IREC about wildlife infectious diseases and how to reach disease control addressing multi-hosting pathogens. Christian Gortázar is a veterinary...

The Real-Time Trainings play a vital role in developing a cadre of personnel who have seen field cases of FMD and have detailed knowledge of FMD diagnosis and outbreak investigation. So far, over 1000 participants from over 60 countries have benefitted from these courses. Learn more in our website: https://www.fao.org/eufmd/training/real-time-training/en/

20 years ago, in 2001, the UK had an outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD). It had devastating consequences, not just on those directly affected, but also on the rural communities, tourism, economy, and government. Christine Middlemiss, Chief Veterinary Officer UK, was with thousands of veterinarians, to work to eradicate the disease as fast as they could.

The critical role played by Veterinary Paraprofessionals in delivering essential animal health services for smallholder farmers (SHFs) demands up to date technical competences and the development of enabling business environments for the provision of quality services and supplies. In key geographies of Africa and Asia there is the need to improve Veterinary Paraprofessionals technical and business...

The critical role played by Veterinary Paraprofessionals in delivering essential animal health services for smallholder farmers (SHFs) demands up to date technical competences and the development of enabling business environments for the provision of quality services and supplies. In key geographies of Africa and Asia there is the need to improve Veterinary Paraprofessionals technical and business...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast In preparation for our new online course, Rodrigo Nova, EuFMD Training Technical Coordinator talks with Gary Flory, Agricultural & Stormwater Program Manager for the Valley Regional Office of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, about Culling and disposal for FAST Diseases; 2) Depopulation for FAST Diseases; 3) Culling/Disposal, cleaning and dis...

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast Drs Seabrook and Nardi introduce for the first time TOM, the new Training Management System developed by the EuFMD, describing the uses and benefit to countries and learners and explaining of competency frameworks Marcello Nardi works as Chief Learning Officer at EuFMD. Learning professional with experience in training delivery, design, evaluation of impact,...

Erika Chenais, epidemiologist, doctor in veterinary medicine and a Foot and Mouth Disease and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases emergency preparedness specialist with the European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease. As a part of our work towards improving preparedness for Foot and Mouth Disease and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases crises by Member nations and across Euro...

Etienne Chevanne, FMD risk management specialist working for the EuFMD talks about what is "Risk mapping and mitigation", how it works and why it is so important.

Dr Michael Eschbaumer, epidemiologist veterinarian, Head of the National Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease at the FLI (Germany) talks about the importance of the creation of the Laboratory Biorisk Standards for laboratories working with FMD.

Welcome to a new episode of our podcast Drs Krstevski & Romey discuss about Proficiency of Test Service, one of the EU- Reference Laboratory activities. It is organized and delivered annually to promote harmonization of the FMD diagnosis and to ensure proficiency and quality of FMD testing across EU member countries. Dr Krstevski is an associate Professor in Infectious diseases at the Faculty of V...

L. Comtet - Proven performances for FMDV NSP antibody detection with ID Screen® by European Commission for the Control of FMD

L. Comtet - A new pan FMDV DAS antigen ELISA using multi-serotype-reactive monoclonal by European Commission for the Control of FMD

L. Comtet - A pan-serotype solid phase blocking ELISA prototype by European Commission for the Control of FMD

Ready-to-use solid phase blocking Elisa kits for detection of specific antibodies to FMDV serotypes O, A, Asia1 We describe the performances of a new Solid Phase Blocking ELISA (SPBE). The ID Screen® FMD Type Asia1 Competition ELISA (cELISA) specifically detects FMDV Asia1 serotype-specific antibodies in serum or plasma from cattle, swine or any other susceptible species. Test specificity was eval...

A new pan FMDV das antigen Elisa using multi-serotype reactive monoclonal antibodies The wide range of hosts, rapid replication, high levels of viral excretion and multiple forms of transmission make FMD difficult to control and eradicate. As FMD can spread fast, rapid and specific identification of the agent is required, as FMD is clinically indistinguishable from other vesicular diseases such as...

F. Reviriego - Improving business continuity in the EU - the regulatory and policy challenges by European Commission for the Control of FMD

FMD serological blocking ELISA based on VHH for post-vaccination monitoring

Continuity of Business during Transboundary Animal Diseases – Lessons Learned from California’s Implementation of the Secure Food Supply Program

Abstract Food-and-mouth disease And Similar Transboundary (FAST) animal diseases are a constant threat to the European livestock sector. They do not only cause large animal health and welfare problems, they are also disruptive for private partners of the livestock production value chain, as well as for public authorities and institutions involved. Successful prevention and control of FAST diseases...

Abstract The current pandemic of African Swine Fever (ASF) has caused major losses to the swine industry worldwide. Compartmentalization is one of the available tools to address the threat to business continuity posed by ASF to the industry. Although compartments have been implemented for various diseases and production types, no ASF-free swine compartment has been published by OIE to date. First,...

G. Savioli Et Al. - A methodology to estimate indirect costs by European Commission for the Control of FMD

Introduction Scoping work was carried out to gather information on the state of preparedness for emergency vaccination for FAST diseases in EuFMD Member Nations (MN); and on the issues that constrain them from inclusion of vaccination in their plans. Different aspects of emergency vaccination were investigated including vaccination strategies, access to vaccines and operational preparedness. The s...