90th Executive Committee meeting of the EuFMD

Item: Component 2.3 – REMESA

Author: Fabrizio Rosso

90 ExCom-Monza, 24-25 September 2015

Component 2.3 of EuFMD workplan

Assist national FMD risk management as part of the REMESA action plan

Activity 2013-2015

PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP The purpose of the workshop is to reach a common understanding on the difficulties associated with the control of the FMD in 2014-2015, and to identify from “Lessons learnt” the priorities for attention for a REMESA Regional Strategy.

The workshop started with brief presentations by all participating countries about the 2014 outbreaks and their current FMD situation. The following subjects have been covered during the workshop : •Entry of FMD infection

•Silent spread period

•Control of the epidemic during the first month post-outbreak

•The long tail of virus circulation

•Recovery

TUNISIA

Bovine: 700,000 Small ruminants: 7,500,000

Outbreaks 2014 (April – Oct): 150

Measures -restriction on movements ; -disinfection points in markets ; -perifocal vaccination -restriction on milk delivery; -disinfection points at the exit roads

Main problems - No stop markets - No compensation - No complete vaccination coverage SR

Origin of infection

PRINCIPAUX RESULTATS DE LUTTE

Espèce animale Année Cadre Période de réalisation Effectif

Bovin 2013 Vaccination annuelle Septembre-Décembre 2013 407,177

Petits ruminants 2013 Vaccination annuelle Septembre-Décembre 2013 3,713,008

Bovin 2013 Vaccination annuelle

rattrapage Janvier-Mars 2014 44,809

Bovin 2014 Vaccination d’urgence Avril-Aout 2014 599,975

Petits ruminants 2014 Vaccination d’urgence Avril-Aout 2014 924,912

Petits ruminants 2014 Vaccination d’urgence Septembre-Novembre 2014 3,325,686

Bovins 2014 Vaccination d’urgence Septembre-Novembre 2014 91,687

Bovins 2015 Vaccination exceptionnelle Janvier-mars 2015 576,700

ALGERIA Bovine: 2,000,000 (75% extensive / semi-extensive) Small ruminants: 30,000,000 (80% extensive transhumance – 20% ext sedentary

Outbreaks 2014 (Jul– Sept): 419 bovine Outbreaks 2015 (Mar-Apr): 12 bovine (1) SR (11)

Measures Stop markets (infected areas and all country in ‘14) Stop an. mov. (infected areas and all country in ‘14) Culling with compensation Awareness – media Security services involved

Main problems - No effective stop markets - No effective stop an. movements - Availability of vaccine

VACCINATION

Avril – juillet 2014 ( FA en Tunisie ) : 818,129 Bv

Juillet – Sep 2014 ( FA en Algérie) : 948,205 Bv

autour des foyers et reste du territoire

Novembre - Décembre 2014 :1,341,718 Bv Territoire

national

Mai à juin 2015: 1, 370, 000 Bv + 1,207,207 Ov à El

bayadh, Saida, Naama, SBA

Prochaine campagne Novembre 2015.

Surveillance

2014 nr. 503 bovine pos (0.8%) vacc 61%

nr 466 SR pos (0.4%) 2015 (around outbreaks) nr 60 bov pos (0%) nr. 492 SR pos (0%) 2015 (Oct – foreseen) nr. 2.660 bov nr. 4.000 SR

MOROCCO Bovine: 3,000,000 Small ruminants: 25,000,000

Measures Ban introduction animals/products Border controls (animals/products) Awareness –media

VACCINATION 2014 -2,7 mln bov (Aug-Sept) in two steps 2015 - 2,7 mln bov (Feb-Mar)

Surveillance 2014 East border 439 SR 2015 end of the year - foreseen

MAURITANIA

Bovine: 1,900,000 Small ruminants: 19,000,000

Surveillance 2012 pos 60% bov – 35%SR

SAT2 detected in 2105 A detected in 2006

Lessons learnt

Animal movements

Importance of reliable animal identification systems

Importance cross-border movements regulated and well understood

Implementation of movement control by veterinary services

Epidemiology and surveillance

The statistical confidence of the surveys to give evidence of absence of

FMDV circulation

Strong regional elements should be captured in the surveillance (risk based)

Communication

Importance of communication channels established during “peace time”

Lessons learnt

Vaccination

Acquisition of sufficient and proper vaccines

Regional harmonization of vaccination campaigns, based on a risk

assessment

Resource mobilization

From initial emergency response to a long-term prevention: need to secure

long-term human and financial resources

Importance of demonstrating socio-economic impact of FMD as support for

the advocacy activities

Regional harmonization

Regional coordination is of particular interest for vaccination, movement

control and surveillance

Risk assessment for FMD spread in the region

Recommendations

IMPROVEMENTS on PREVENTION

Strengthening of cross-border animal movement control regarding illegal

introduction of animals and products.

Continuation of animal identification, tracking and tracing of their movements.

Mapping of animal movements, knowledge at regional level of transportation

routes based on local conditions.

Strengthening of passive surveillance

Targeting active surveillance: high risk areas and periods

Harmonization or implementation of a regional surveillance strategy

Coordination by a regional reference laboratory

Strengthening cooperation between stakeholders, awareness and training

STRENGTHENING of FMD CONTROL

Control and restriction of animal movements and effective closure of livestock

markets during outbreaks,

Strengthening of biosecurity measures

Cost-benefit analysis

Implementation of proper sanitary measures in and around outbreak farms

(confiscation and isolation of infected animals, stamping out, disinfection)

Financial support for necessary personal equipment (PPE) and culling facilities

Financial support for compensation

Establishing a vaccine/antigen bank at regional level with regional and

international support (financial and technical)

Preventive vaccination and Emergency vaccination preparedness

Development of tools to assist the design, implementation and evaluation of

vaccination campaigns

Recommendations

STRENGTHENING of COMMUNICATION

Strengthening coordination among all partners

Establishment of a surveillance or communication committee (national or

regional)

Creation of opportunities where professionals can exchange information

Activation of the REMESA website to exchange animal health information

Harmonization of technical communication media (support and technical expertise

at national, regional and international level)

Creating awareness among actors during peace time

Improving feedback for experience

Recommendations

IMPROVING MOBILIZATION of HUMAN and FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Cost-benefit analysis of control measures to justify resources and required

financial means

Harmonization of regulatory framework for measures and resources, regional and

international support in the preparation of regulations

Good structure of veterinary services, administrative and financial autonomy

Establishment of a regional animal disease fund (national/regional)

The workplan 2015-2017 is focused on improvement in short and long term

management of the national FMD risk, with tangible indicators of progression

along the PCP Pathway, towards OIE recognition of FMD freedom and a

regional strategy for FMD control.

The programme is based on the support to:

• develop, adopt and implement Risk Based Strategic Plans for FMD control in

Libya and Mauritania, and the capacity to achieve and maintain PCP stage 4 in

Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia;

• implement a coordination framework in order to facilitate communication,

review and guide upon activity implementation at national and regional level,

• create a system to improve availability of disease risk information for planning

of surveillance, control and vaccination programmes, and developing vaccine

banks.

All the activities and the related outcomes can help to provide information to

support analysis of risk of FMD incursions into the European neighbourhood.

Workplan 2015-2017

Activities Consultant

Travel Contracts

Training Equipment

Other

SubTotal TOTALby Output

1.1 Mauritania

Training using PEPc to assist national staff to complete RBSP 5,000 5,000 5,000 4,000 19,000

33,000 Socio-economic study on FMD 3,000 4,000 7,000

Support field FMD serosurveillance and outbreak investigations 3,000 3,000

Support laboratory diagnosis 4,000 4,000

1.2. Libya

Assistance on training (e-learning, webinar) for national taskforce members based in PEPc principles 3,000 3,000 2,000 8,000 15,000 Support laboratory diagnosis

7,000 7,000

1.3 Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco

Implementation of trainings and workshops to promote risk based surveillance and early detection control programmes 10,000 15,000 8,000 33,000

73,900 Support laboratory diagnosis 20,000 20,000

Support emergency preparedness and test emergency response 6,000 9,000 3,000 2,400 500 20,900

2.2 Coordination framework

Support REMESA coordination activities 3,000 3,000

17,500 Implementation of epi-network between countries and development of a training credit system 4,000 2,500 8,000 14,500

2.2 Regional control strategy

Assistance and support the development of a regional control strategy, including cost-benefit analysis of control policy 4,000 7,000 11,000

29,000 Design surveillance system to be implemented in high risk areas and support with models and diagnostic kits the active surveillance

3,000 7,000 8,000 18,000

3.1Risk information

Support implementation of regional laboratory network in Maghreb and Western Sahel countries 4,000 10,000 4,000 18,000

18,000

3.2 Vaccine programmes and vaccine bank

Support the development of regional vaccine bank 5,000 5,000

11,700 Support the vaccination programmes with tools for design, imlement, assess 3,000 3,700 6,700

ToTal 50,000 64,500 9,000 32,700 41,400 500 198,100 198,100