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This website aims at disseminating information on the animal health situation in the Caribbean and providing useful resources for animal health professionals.
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• Low pathogenic avian influenza in Dominican Republic
The presence of the H5N2 virus has been confirmed the 24th of December 2007 in Dominican Republic following analyzes carried out by the reference laboratory of Ames. These results are obtained on live bird markets in two distinct geographical localities. The origin of the infection is for the moment unknown.
The full report of this notification can be downloaded on the OIE Web site.
• Leptospirosis in Dominican Republic
Approximately 30 people died of leptospirosis in Dominican Republic in November 2007 following the floods caused by the tropical storm Noel. More than 1200 human cases of the disease are reported in the country since the beginning of the year (against 849 in 2006). Already in July 2007, the number of human cases had been very high (an average of 40 cases per week). The authorities conduct an active campaign of communication on the prevention actions. More detail on the Web site of the OPS in Dominican Republic.
• Small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida) in Mexico
The director general of animal health of Mexico announced to OIE on October 26, 2007 the infestation by the small hives beetle (Aethina tumida) in the State of COAHUILA, at the border with United States. The source of the infestation is not known for the moment.
To download the alert message to OIE click here
• HPAI H7N3 outbreak in Canada
OIE made a notification on the 09/28/07 to inform about the reappearance of highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza in Canada.
It has been detected in a commercial poultry operation in Regina, in the province of Saskatchewan. Contact with wild bird is suspected to be responsible for the contamination but nothing has been confirmed yet. Measures of movement control in the country, quarantine, disinfection of infected premises, stamping out… have been implemented.
The previous H7N3 outbreak in Canada was in 2004 in the province of British Columbia.
To see the notification click here
• Cock-fighting birds likely culprit in Mukdahan H5N1 outbreak
The latest bird flu epidemic in the northeastern province of Mukdahan
was most likely to have come from Sawannakhet province in Laos
through illegal cock-fighting tours, health officials said yesterday
Source: Promed PRO/AH/EDR> Avian influenza, poultry vs migratory birds (15)21st March 2007 and The Nation
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/03/21/national/national_30029837.php
• Belize Agricultural Health Authority and Ministry of Agriculture declare outbreak of vesicular stomatitis
One equine farm infected with Vesicular stomatitis, New Jersey strain
Belmopan, 15 March, 2007
The Belize Agricultural Health Authority (BAHA) and the Ministry of Agriculture advise the livestock industry of an outbreak of vesicular stomatitis (VS) in the Cayo District. LADIVES, the regional vesicular disease reference laboratory in Panama, informed BAHA on the 14th March, 2007 of the positive result. The disease, commonly known in Belize as “sore mouth”, affected one 10 year old castrated male horse in a herd of 11 horses. BAHA is already investigating a suspect case in a cattle ranch within 5 km of the first affected farm.
• Molecular epidemiological study of rabies in Cuba
A study published in the latest issue of Epidemiology and Infection investigates the emergence and current situation of terrestrial rabies in Cuba. You can find the abstract in the Rabies section of the Bibliography menu
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• CaribVET Steering Committee, Antigua, April 2008
The CaribVET Steering Committee, composed by the Chief veterinary officers of the Caribbean islands and the main international organizations involved in animal health, gathered in Antigua in order to present the 2007-2008 activities of the network and to define the 2008-2009 objectives. The presentations of the meeting are available in the Meetings' rubric. The recommendations will be available soon.
• Assessment of the Martinique epidemiosurveillance system, February 2008
Martinique’s epidemiosurveillance network has been assessed by a group of 5 epidemiologists members of the CaribVET Epigroup during a 3 days mission. The objective was to identify the strengths and the weaknesses of the system and to think about potential improvement of the network. The SNAT, a specific questionnaire for the assessment of national networks, has been adapted to the caribbean context by the CaribVET Epigroup in December and utilized for the first time in Martinique.
The main actors of animal health in Martinique were met through visits of farms, abattoir, veterinary diagnostic laboratory, and during meetings with veterinarians and representatives of the GDS (farmers association for animal health protection).
This visit was an opportunity to work on local and regional problematics, in particular the Tropical Bont Tick subject.
• Control programme of classical swine-fever in Hispaniola: Objective eradication
The bilateral commission Haiti - Dominican Republic for classical swine-fever control met on February 22, 2008 in Jimani (border post between the two countries). This meeting followed a year 2007 particularly active in the field of technical collaboration between the veterinary services of the two countries with 5 meetings held throughout the year, what had not been seen since many years.
The results of the meeting made it possible to show that the common surveillance protocol implemented on the two sides of the border fully met the expectations of the countries. This protocol will thus be continued according to same technical procedure in 2008 and will be extended to vaster zones of the two countries.
The posted objective is now clearly to go together towards the eradication of the disease in the island of Hispaniola.
You can access to the pages concerning the bilateral commission, and also to the content of the meeting
• Meeting for the planification of rabies control in Haiti, december 2007
This meeting was part of the TCC “Reinforcement of the activities of dogs transmitted human rabies control” teaming up Haiti, Cuba, Brazil, Canada and Dominican Republic. It was an opportunity to validate and improve a national strategic plan already well evolved for the eradication of human rabies.
The meeting welcome about 20 technicians from the minister of health and agriculture, WHO/PAHO, IICA, UNICEF, from France, Cuba, Brazil, Canada, Dominican Republic, and from the private sector.
To see the content of the conference, click here
• CaribVET Epidemiology Workgroup meeting in Santo Domingo
The CaribVET Epidemiology Workgroup of regional experts in epidemiology was gathering during the first week of December in Santo Domingo. The objectives were to establish collegially criteria to define priority diseases targeted by the network, build the VEP project aiming to supply national surveillance network with epidemiologists based in some Caribbean veterinary services, prepare surveillance network assessment visits in countries, adapt risk analysis to the Caribbean context.
To see the content of the conference, consult Meetings or click here.
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