EuFMD - The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Table 1: Summary of serological surveys carried out in North Africa 1992-1999

Year	1992	1993	1994	1994	1995	1995	1996	1999
Country	Morocco	Morocco	Morocco	Morocco	Morocco	Tunisia	Morocco	Morocco
Objective	Prevalence and geographical distribution of seropositive flocks	Vaccine study in sheep (in collaboration with ID-DLO, Lelystad	Prevalence of seropositive flocks in areas previously positive or ‘at risk’	Vaccine study in cattle	Prevalence of seropositive flocks in areas previously positive or ‘at risk’	Efficiency of vaccination campaign in sheep	Follow up survey in those villages where positive sera were detected in 1995	Prevalence and geographical distribution of seropositive flocks
Population studied	small ruminants	sheep	small ruminants	cattle	small ruminants	sheep	small ruminants	small ruminants
No. sera examined	10,055 sera from 1,135 flocks in 40 provinces	105 sera from 6 regions	1,925 sera from 183 villages in 15 provinces	305 sera from one village in each of 14 provinces	4,423 sera from 316 villages in 15 provinces	6,722 sera from 65 state-owned farms	3,048 sera from 18 villages in 8 provinces	10,045 sera from 43 provinces