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“RedTide” 2012 Caribbean Regional Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) Outbreak Simulation Exercise
Mon, 03/19/2012 - 07:55 — AnonymeThe Veterinary Services of 10 Caribbean countries/territories* are preparing for a table-top simulation to be held on March 22nd.
Georgetown meeting reviews CaribVET Charter, tackles sustainability issues
Mon, 02/27/2012 - 08:02 — AnonymeThe Coordinating Unit and Chairs of the Working Groups of the Caribbean Animal Health Network (CaribVET) met at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana, 14-15 February and revised the network’s Charter Document.
The revised Charter, which outlines the principles, organisation and functions of the Network, will be presented for ratification when CaribVET’s Steering Committee meets in Georgetown during May 2012. Read more »
CSF threatens Belize and Central American region
Wed, 02/01/2012 - 15:02 — AnonymeThe Belize Agriculture Health Authority (BAHA) and the Ministry of Agriculture are under high alert and implementing emergency measures to prevent the introduction of Classical Swine Fever (CSF) from neighboring Guatemala. Guatemala reported outbreaks of CSF to the OIE late last year (read below). At a recent meeting of chief veterinary officers of Central America, Guatemala reported that the authorities have been unable to contain the spread of the disease and are undertaking a national vaccination campaign to control the disease. Read more »
Molecular Diagnostic and Capacity Building Workshop on Influenza A H1N1/2009 virus and other respiratory diseases of Swine in the Caribbean Region
Thu, 01/26/2012 - 15:42 — AnonymeThe Sub-regional Coordinator of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Barbados with the French Agricultural Research Centre for Development (CIRAD) organize an activity of the Project TCP/RLA/3306 (D): “Technical assistance for surveillance of Influenza A H1N1/2009 virus and other Influenza viruses in swine populations in the Caribbean region”. Read more »
Reoccurence of vesicular stomatitis in Belize, December 2011
Fri, 12/30/2011 - 10:15 — AnonymeThe last 20th of December 2011, an outbreak of vesicular stomatitis was confirmed in Biscayne, a village of Belize. The source of the outbreak was unknown and apart from the 6 confirmed cattle no other animal was found with clinical signs in the affected farm or the all village.
Control measures are ongoing. For more information on this event, read the OIE report.
1st Meeting of the Veterinary Public Health working group of CaribVET
Fri, 12/09/2011 - 15:16 — AnonymeThe first meeting of the Veterinary Public Health (VPH) working group was held 12nd -14th December in San Juan, Porto Rico.
This new CaribVET working group was created during the 6th SC meeting of CaribVET (March 2011) and merges the former Salmonellosis and Rabies working groups. It deals with Salmonellosis, Rabies and Leptospirosis. Read more »
Reoccurence of Newcastle disease in Mexico, November 2011.
Wed, 11/23/2011 - 09:14 — AnonymeNewcastle disease was diagnosed and confirmed in Mexico at the end of last october in a poultry farm in the north-east of the country (Lagos de Morenos province). The case has been detected during active epidemiological surveillance without clinical signs of the disease.
No further Newcastle disease cases have been observed and epidemiological surveillance is ongoing. For more information on this event, read the OIE report.
1st conference of the SIEVMP, 21-23 November 2011, Mexico
Wed, 11/16/2011 - 08:40 — Anonyme
The Iberoamerican Society of Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive medicine (SIEVMP) is organizing its first conference in Mérida (Yucatan), Mexico 21-23 November 2011, under the coordination of the Autonomous University of Yucatán. The meeting will focus on "practical analyzes for the prevention, the control and the eradication of diseases". Read more »
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