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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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Focus On… Tracking the movement of livestock – developing strategic interventions for infectious disease control in East Africa
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Latest Articles and Events
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 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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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. So what will you do…
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14 Jul 2020
NEW emergence newsletter: first issue!
Welcome to our new-look newsletter.  This accompanies the new-look website which I hope you have seen by now.  I am excited by the changes which, alongside the podcast, will bring…
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10 Jul 2020
It’s good to talk! The emergence podcasts
Producing a podcast: the evolution of emergence The emergence website, launched in 2015 and recently redesigned, is our way to keep people informed about diseases such as foot and mouth…
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14 Jul 2020
NEW emergence newsletter: first issue!
Welcome to our new-look newsletter.  This accompanies the new-look website which I hope you have seen by now.  I am excited by the changes which, alongside the podcast, will bring…
Read Article
10 Jul 2020
It’s good to talk! The emergence podcasts
Producing a podcast: the evolution of emergence The emergence website, launched in 2015 and recently redesigned, is our way to keep people informed about diseases such as foot and mouth…
Read Article
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25 Jun 2020
Rabies webinar: wild rabies (Amazon region)
Now available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Watch the excellent webinar on wild rabies focusing on the Amazon region given by expert Sergio Recuenco. New paradigms in the prevention and…
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25 Jun 2020
Rabies webinar: elimination of canine rabies
Now available in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Watch this excellent webinar on the elimination of canine rabies given by world expert Professor Sarah Cleaveland. Towards the elimination of canine rabies…
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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 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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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. So what will you do…
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Banner image for RITA Colombia event - Attendees at RITA Kansas City Oct-Nov 2019
26 Oct 2020 to 30 Oct 2020
Rabies In The Americas (RITA), Pereira, Colombia
UPDATE: Now cancelled http://www.rabiesintheamericas.org/home This year Pereira, Colombia was due to host the Rabies In The Americas (RITA) meeting. The RITA meeting is an annual event that has been held…
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27 Oct 2020 to 30 Oct 2020
EuFMD Open Session OS20
Livelihoods @ risk in a FASTerworld. Open Session of European Commission for Control of FMD Standing Technical Committee. Event Topic: FMD And Similar Transboundary DiseasesLocation: Marseille, France Description from the EuFMD…
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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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Factors associated with rabies vaccination of dog shelter staff in the United States Cain, C.J., Woodruff, K.A., Loftin, C.M., Smith, D.R. 2020 Zoonoses and Public Health.
06 August 2020
A Qualitative Risk Assessment of Rabies Reintroduction Into the Rabies Low-Risk Zone of Bhutan Rinchen, S., Tenzin, T., Hall, D., Cork, S. 2020 Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 7, art. no. 366.
06 August 2020
Food-borne disease prevention and risk assessment Todd, E. 2020 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(14), art. no. 5129, pp. 1-13.
03 August 2020
Outbreak of African horse sickness in Thailand, 2020 King, S., Rajko-Nenow, P., Ashby, M., (…), Carpenter, S., Batten, C. 2020 Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.
03 August 2020
Zero human deaths from dog-mediated rabies by 2030: Perspectives from quantitative and mathematical modelling Hampson, K., Abela-Ridder, B., Changalucha, J., (…), Wallace, R., Trotter, C. 2020 Gates Open Research, 3, art. no. 1564.
02 July 2020
Effects of an H7 Highly Pathogenic and Related Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus on Chicken Egg Production, Viability, and Virus Contamination of Egg Contents and Surfaces Stephens, C.B., Spackman, E., Pantin-Jackwood, M.J. 2020 Avian diseases, 64(2), pp. 143-148.
30 June 2020
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