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Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly infectious viral disease that affects cloven-hooved animals, including cattle, sheep and pigs.
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Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD)
Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD)
Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is an OIE-listed notifiable disease caused by the lumpy skin disease virus (LSDV). It affects cattle and water buffalo, damaging animal…
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Rabies
Rabies
Rabies is one of the most lethal viruses on earth, with almost 60,000 people dying of this terrible disease every year. Almost half of these…
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06 Mar 2023 to 10 Mar 2023
10th International Sheep Veterinary Congress
Organized by the the Spanish Association for Sheep and Goat Production (SEOC), the 10th International Sheep Veterinary Congress (ISVC) will take place in 2023 from 6th to 10th March, in Seville. Excerpt…
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04 Sep 2022 to 08 Sep 2022
World Buiatrics Congress 2022 (WBC 2022)
WBC 2022 (World Buiatrics Congress) will take place in Madrid, Spain on September 4 – 8, 2022. The WBC congress is held in a different part of the world every…
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Unraveling the Transmission of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus
14 Apr 2021
Unraveling the Transmission of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus
Discovering the transmission dynamics of a virus is instrumental to truly understanding epidemiology of a disease and helps pave the path towards successful evidence-based control programs. We are excited to…
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Welcoming 2021
03 Feb 2021
Welcoming 2021
Welcome to a new edition of emergence and the beginning of a new year.  This always seems a natural time to reflect, both on what has happened in the last…
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Unraveling the Transmission of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus
14 Apr 2021
Unraveling the Transmission of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus
Discovering the transmission dynamics of a virus is instrumental to truly understanding epidemiology of a disease and helps pave the path towards successful evidence-based control programs. We are excited to…
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Welcoming 2021
03 Feb 2021
Welcoming 2021
Welcome to a new edition of emergence and the beginning of a new year.  This always seems a natural time to reflect, both on what has happened in the last…
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Lumpy Skin Disease: Free Online Training Module
13 Jan 2021
Lumpy Skin Disease: Free Online Training Module
Following recent outbreaks in a number of countries across Asia, the EuFMD has made available a new ‘taster’ training module on lumpy skin disease (LSD) in cattle. The availability of…
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Conferences in a Digital World: EuFMD Open Session 2020 Moves Online
12 Jan 2021
Conferences in a Digital World: EuFMD Open Session 2020 Moves Online
The EuFMD Open Session (OS) takes place every 2 years and is one of the most important conferences on foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the calendar. The 2020 edition of the…
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10th International Sheep Veterinary Congress
06 Mar 2023 to 10 Mar 2023
10th International Sheep Veterinary Congress
Organized by the the Spanish Association for Sheep and Goat Production (SEOC), the 10th International Sheep Veterinary Congress (ISVC) will take place in 2023 from 6th to 10th March, in Seville. Excerpt…
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World Buiatrics Congress 2022 (WBC 2022)
04 Sep 2022 to 08 Sep 2022
World Buiatrics Congress 2022 (WBC 2022)
WBC 2022 (World Buiatrics Congress) will take place in Madrid, Spain on September 4 – 8, 2022. The WBC congress is held in a different part of the world every…
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Event banner image for Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) scientific meeting 2020. Two African huts in a clearing, surrounded by bushes and trees
24 Aug 2021 to 26 Aug 2021
Global African Swine Fever 2021 Scientific Meeting
The GARA 2021 Scientific Meeting will take place August 24th – 26th, 2021 in Kampala, Uganda. The event will take place at Kampala Serena HotelKintu Road,  P. O. Box 7814,…
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Emerging Animal Infectious Disease Conference
24 May 2021 to 26 May 2021
Emerging Animal Infectious Disease Conference
Co-hosted by Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences, the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and Penn State’s Center for Security Research and Education, the event will be held on May 24-26,…
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Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Annual Conference 2021
24 Mar 2021 to 26 Mar 2021
Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Annual Conference 2021
The annual SVEPM conference 2021 will be held online from March 24th to 26th. The draft SVEPM 2021 programme includes workshops and talks on a variety of transboundary and emerging diseases.…
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08 Dec 2020 to 17 Feb 2021
EuFMD Open Session OS20
Livelihoods @ risk in a FASTerworld. Open Session of European Commission for the Control of Foot and Mouth Disease. The OS20 will be a Special Edition event conducted in virtual format…
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Partners for Rabies Prevention (PRP) 2020, France
04 Nov 2020 to 06 Nov 2020
Partners for Rabies Prevention (PRP) 2020, France
13th International Meeting of the Partners for Rabies Prevention. Hosted by MÉRIEUX FOUNDATION in conjunction with Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC), the PRP 2020 meeting will be held at Les…
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6th World One Health Congress – virtual edition 2020
30 Oct 2020 to 03 Nov 2020
6th World One Health Congress – virtual edition 2020
One-week online event with the theme ‘Advancing science to improve health and security.’ The 6th World One Health Congress is the largest One Health event of the year, where experts…
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28 Oct 2020 to 30 Oct 2020
Rabies in the Americas (RITA) 2020, online conference
UPDATE: RITA 2020 will be held in online format. This year, the Rabies in the Americas (RITA) conference (originally scheduled for October 26-30 in Pereira, Colombia) will be held online…
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20 Oct 2020 to 17 Nov 2020
Lumpy Skin Disease Pilot Virtual Learning Course
Organised by FAO and EuFMD this is a pilot of the Lumpy Skin Disease Preparedness virtual learning course. This is an online tutored course that aims to provide participants with…
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World Rabies Day September 28, 2020
28 Sep 2020
World Rabies Day September 28, 2020
September 28, 2020. End Rabies: Collaborate, Vaccinate 2020 marks 10 years to go until the goal of zero human dog-mediated rabies deaths by 2030, worldwide. Everyone can play a part…
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United Against Rabies: One Health in Action - Partnering for Success
22 Sep 2020
United Against Rabies: One Health in Action – Partnering for Success
Virtual meeting supported by the Tripartite (FAO, OIE and WHO) – Tuesday 22 September 2020 [12.00-14.00UTC] Excerpt from event website: As one of the oldest known zoonoses, rabies is entirely…
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24 Aug 2020 to 25 Aug 2020
GARA Scientific Meeting 2020, Virtual Sessions
The 2020 Global African Swine Fever Research Alliance (GARA) scientific meeting has been postponed until August 2021. However, virtual sessions from the keynote speakers will take place on 24th-25th August…
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10 Jul 2020
Strengthening Animal Health Systems To Accelerate Progress Towards SDGS
Virtual side event at the High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. Friday, 10 July 2020, 8 am – 9 am (EST) / 1 pm – 2 pm (BST) Speakers…
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24 May 2020 to 29 May 2020
OIE General Session 2020, SG88
The GS88 event was to be held during the week of 24th May 2020 and has been postponed until 2021 (http://oiegeneralsession88.com/en/). However, information about OIE activities in 2020 is available…
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South Asia SAARC Rabies Webinars
18 May 2020 to 20 May 2020
South Asia SAARC Rabies Webinars
Updates and progress in the SAARC region towards elimination of dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 Almost 400 participants from SOUTH ASIAN ASSOCIATION FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION (SAARC) countries and around the…
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27 Apr 2020 to 28 Apr 2020
World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this event has been postponed, with new dates to be confirmed.Organised and hosted by Makerere University in partnership with Government of Uganda. The central topics…
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Rabies Webinar banner image containing emergence logo, Virtual Congress 2020 logo and headshot of Sarah Cleaveland
31 Jan 2020 to 01 Feb 2020
VC2020 Rabies Webinar by Sarah Cleaveland
Watch the webinar recording: Towards the elimination of canine rabies. Despite the availability of safe and highly efficacious rabies vaccines for preventing of rabies in humans and animals, canine rabies…
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31 Jan 2020 to 01 Feb 2020
VC2020 Rabies Webinar by Sergio Recuenco
Nuevos paradigmas en la prevención y control de la rabia silvestre, y riesgos emergentes. El ciclo de rabia silvestre en la cuenca del Amazonas transmitida por murciélagos hematófagos, no ha…
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Banner image for EuFMD FAST meeting - The Coliseum at night, lit up
22 Jan 2020 to 23 Jan 2020
FAST meeting on vaccine security by EuFMD
Foot-and-mouth And Similar Transboundary animal diseases, Rome, Italy. Security of supply of vaccines against Foot-and-mouth disease and other Similar Transboundary (FAST) diseases is a major issue for veterinary services of…
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GFRA Thailand Meeting Brochure for October 2019
29 Oct 2019 to 31 Oct 2019
GFRA, Bangkok, Thailand
Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research Alliance (GFRA) meeting 2019. This year the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Research Alliance (GFRA) meeting was held in beautiful Bangkok, Thailand – a region where FMD is…
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Rabies Workshop Event Report Banner image - banner advertising Rabies Workshop Institut Pasteur in Morocco
17 Sep 2019 to 28 Sep 2019
Workshop on the control of rabies for Africa
Hosted by Institut Pasteur and supported by OIE, WHO, and University of Glasgow. This comprehensive course trained delegates from 9 countries from across Northern and West Africa on all aspects…
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Scientific Opinion on the assessment of the control measures of the category A diseases of Animal Health Law: African Horse Sickness Open Access Nielsen, S.S., Alvarez, J., Bicout, D.J., (…), Zancanaro, G., Aznar, I. 2021 EFSA Journal, 19(2), art. no. e06403.
07 June 2021
An Evaluation of the Rabies Surveillance in Southern Vietnam Open Access Pham, Q.D., Phan, L.T., Nguyen, T.P.T., (…), Luong, Q.C., Nguyen, T.V. 2021 Frontiers in Public Health, 9, art. no. 610905.
07 June 2021
Molecular epidemiology of Brucella species in mixed livestock-human ecosystems in Kenya. Akoko, J.M., Pelle, P., Lukambagire, A.S., Machuka, E.M. Nthiwa, D., Mathew, C., Fèvre, E.M., Bett, B., Cook, E.A.J., Othero, D., Bonfoh, B., Kazwala, R.R., Shirima, G., Schelling, Halliday E.J.E.B., Ouma, C., 2021, Scientific Reports, 11(1), art. no. 8881, DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-88327-z
07 May 2021
Economic assessment of African horse sickness vaccine impact Redmond, E.F., Jones, D., Rushton, J. 2021 Equine Veterinary Journal.
06 April 2021
Quantifying and modelling the acquisition and retention of lumpy skin disease virus by haematophagus insects reveals clinically but not subclinically-affected cattle are promoters of viral transmission and key targets for control of disease outbreaks, Sanz-Bernardo, B., Haga, I.R., Wijesiriwardana, N., Basu, S., Larner, W., Diaz, A.V., Langlands, Z., Denison, E., Stoner, J., White, M., Sanders, C., Hawes, P.C., Wilson, A.J., Atkinson, J., Batten, C., Alphey, L., Darpel, K.E., Gubbins, S., Beard, P. M., 2021 Journal of Virology, DOI: 10.1128/JVI.02239-20
01 April 2021
Schmallenberg virus found in England in autumn 2020 Dastjerdi, A., Steinbach, F. 2021 The Veterinary record, 188(5), p. 192.
01 April 2021
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