EUFMD 

33rd Session

Report

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Appendix 11- Report on the situation in Turkey in 1997 and 1998

1997

54 outbreaks have been reported in Anatolia, in 1997. 18 of them were located in Western Anatolia. 51 outbreaks were due to type O and 3 to type A (in Aksaray and Nigde Provinces in central Anatolia).

Monthly Distribution of FMD Outbreaks in Turkey in 1997

A new programme for FMD control was started in Turkey in 1997 under the Authority of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.

1998

Monthly Distribution of FMD Outbreaks in Turkey in 1998

The new variant of type A FMD virus - similar to the strain circulating in Iran since 1996 (A/Iran 96) - emerged in Turkey in early 1998. The entire 13 type A outbreaks in 1998 were due to the new variant. They occurred in 5 provinces of Eastern and Central Anatolia and 5 provinces of Western Anatolia. EU supported Turkey to vaccinate preventively against the new variant ( see below). During the last 4 months no type A outbreak has occurred. This indicates that the virus did not continue to spread to the west, as was initially feared. The O type FMD outbreaks are still dominant to A type outbreaks. All of the infected animals were cattle.

Thrace

The last two FMD outbreaks occurred in Thrace in 1995 and 1996. No FMD outbreak has occurred in Thrace in 1997 or in 1988. No preventive vaccination has been carried out in Thrace between 1991 and 1996. Since 1997, in accordance with the established programme, susceptible animals are vaccinated against types O₁ and A₂₂ in the Thrace provinces. In 1997, cattle were vaccinated three times and sheep and goats once. In 1998, cattle were vaccinated twice and small ruminants once. 268,423 (59 %) large ruminants and 404,683 (47.5 %) small ruminants were vaccinated during the 1998 spring campaign.

Vaccination Campaign in Thrace against the New Type A Variant in 1998

After the occurrence of new type A variant in Turkey, the EC Commission decided to finance vaccination of large and small ruminants with the new type A vaccine in Thrace. 900,000 of A/Iran Monovalent vaccine were provided to Turkey. 643,007 doses were used. Totally, 302,042 (65 %) large ruminants and 637,131 (67 %) small ruminants were vaccinated during this campaign. The losses amounted to 53,493 doses ( 8.3%) and 203,500 doses were left after completion of the campaign.

Final report of vaccination Campaign against the new Type A in Thrace in 1998 ( as on 26/01/99)

Western Buffer Zone

18 outbreaks were located in Western Anatolia (WBZ) in 1997 and also 18 outbreaks in1998. In the spring 1998 vaccination campaign, 622,578 (33%) large ruminants and 393,264 (7%) small ruminants were vaccinated in this zone.

Rest of Anatolia

In 1998, 57 outbreaks occurred in this region. During the spring vaccination campaign of 1998 1,584,163 (16%) of large ruminants and 556,017 (1%) small ruminants were vaccinated. Vaccination is carried out in areas along the main east-west livestock transportation routes, in certain project areas, and in the case of private requests by farmers.

Vaccine production

The Sap FMD Institute, located in Ankara is the only Government laboratory for vaccine production and diagnosis of FMD in Turkey. It also carries out the epidemiological studies in the country. The annual production capacity is 30 million bivalent cattle doses generally.

Vaccine production in the Sap/FMD Institute for 1998 is 11 million doses A22 and 10 million O1. A private company (Vetal) also produce FMD vaccine in Turkey. For 1997 they produced 5 million monovalent doses.

The programme of vaccination for 1999 foreseen that, due to the delay in production of the vaccine against the new type A strain, bivalent vaccine ( O1, A22) will be used only in Thrace, and Anatolia will be vaccinated against O type only.

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