Rift Valley fever (RVF) is an arboviral disease affecting humans and livestock transmitted by mosquitoes. It is endemic to large areas of Africa, resulting in widespread abortion and neonatal mortality in livestock, and severe complications in a small but significant percentage of human cases. The range of RVF is largely...

Since 2004, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) have cooperated in the Global Framework for the Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) to reduce the threat from transboundary animal diseases (TADs) to food security, livelihoods and safe...

Carrying out an After Action Review (AAR) of a country’s emergency response is an integral part of learning; it provides countries with the opportunity to highlight what they have done well and what gaps remain to be filled in terms of animal health emergency management. This newly published manual...

• This course introduces simulation exercises as part of preparedness for animal disease emergencies. It explains the processes involved in planning, conducting and evaluating simulation exercises. It also describes the various tools, approaches and strategies to support decision-making, as well...

  22 Nov 2021

  Recommendations for the epidemiological investigation of SARS-CoV-2 in exposed animals

  

  Country/Area: Worldwide

  Author: FAO

  Network: REMESA

  Produced by: FAO

  Language: English

  Submitted by: Mohammed BENGOUMI

  Acknowledging the zoonotic nature of SARS-CoV-2, investigations about potential animal hosts are of great importance to improve understanding of COVID-19 epidemiology and identify susceptible animal species as well as possible transmission between humans and animals. Positive findings by a polymerase chain reaction in dogs, cats, farmed mink, and wild...

  15 Jul 2021

  Report of the 22nd JPC /REMESA

  Country/Area:

  Author: REMESA Secretariat

  Network: REMESA

  Produced by: REMESA Secretariat

  Language: English

  Submitted by: Mohammed bengoumi

  13 Apr 2021

  Tripartite Zoonotic Disease Guide

  Country/Area: Worldwide

  Author: Tripartite FAO OIE WHO

  Network: REMESA

  Produced by: Tripartite FAO OIE WHO

  Language: English

  Submitted by: Mohammed Bengoumi

  13 Apr 2021

  OIE Annual report on antimicrobial agents intended for use in animals

  Country/Area: Worldwide

  Author: OIE

  Network: REMESA

  Produced by: OIE

  Language: English

  Submitted by: Mohammed Bengoumi

  This fifth OIE Annual Report on Antimicrobial Agents Intended for Use in Animals provides details of the global use of antimicrobial agents adjusted for animal biomass for 2017, and interprets the overall findings of the fifth annual data collection on the use of antimicrobial agents in animals, providing a global...

  8 Feb 2021

  FAO Guidelines for designing animal disease surveillance plans

  Country/Area: Mediterranean countries

  Author: FAO

  Network: REPIVET

  Produced by: FAO

  Language: English

  Submitted by: Mohammed Bengoumi

  FAO Animal Health developed this guideline to support national veterinary services in designing comprehensive animal disease surveillance plans by highlighting some of the most important components that should be incorporated. Countries can use this document as a basis for the development of their own plans while ensuring it is adapted...

  16 Jan 2021

  Understanding Antimicrobial Resistance in Aquaculture.

  Country/Area: Worldwide

  Author: FAO

  Network: REMESA

  Produced by: FAO

  Language: English

  Submitted by: Mohammed bengoumi

  The important role played by aquaculture in providing high-quality nutrition, improving livelihoods, stimulating and creating decent work and economic growth, and alleviating poverty, particularly in lowincome food-deficit countries and the need to address biosecurity, one of the most important sustainability challenges, can be important drivers for supporting AMR stewardship. The...

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