FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND HEALTH PAPER   133

ISSN 0254-6019
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Prevention and control of transboundary animal diseases
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Report of the FAO Expert Consultation on the Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES)
for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (Livestock Diseases Programme)
including the Blueprint for Global Rinderpest Eradication

Rome, Italy, 24–26 July 1996

Reprinted 2001


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CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SUMMARY

3. RECOMMENDATIONS

3.1 In respect to EMPRES OBJECTIVES and STRATEGY
3.2 In respect to RINDERPEST
3.3 In respect to CONTAGIOUS BOVINE PLEUROPNEUMONIA-CBPP
3.4 In respect to FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE-FMD
3.5 In respect to PESTE DES PETITS RUMINANTS-PPR
3.6 In respect to RIFT VALLEY FEVER-RVF
3.7 In respect to RESOURCE NEEDS FOR EMPRES

4. PROCEEDINGS

4.1 Overview of the EMPRES Programme
4.2 Rinderpest
4.3 Peste des Petits Ruminants
4.4 Foot-and-Mouth Disease
4.5 Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia
4.6 Rift Valley Fever
4.7 Lumpy Skin Disease
4.8 Other diseases
4.9 EMPRES Early Warning and Early Reaction Systems

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 Agenda of the Expert Consultation
Appendix 2 Recommendations of the Technical Consultation on GREP
Appendix 3 The Blueprint for the Global Eradication of Rinderpest by the Year 2010
Appendix 4 The EMPRES Concept Paper
Appendix 5 FMD - Goals, Strategies, Proposed Actions
Appendix 6 Brasilia Declaration
Appendix 7 CBPP - goals, strategies, proposed actions
Appendix 8 The EMPRES concept paper on CBPP control in Eastern and Southern Africa
Appendix 9 EMPRES concept paper on the global early warning system
Appendix 10 EMPRES proposals for establishing an early reaction system
Appendix 11 List of participants