President’s message · l Vilmos Palya and János Benyeda: Poultry Diseases of the Past 50 Years. l Éva Ivanics, Róbert Glávits and Vilmos Palya: Infectious Diseases of the Goose

Winter 2010No 21

Contents

Newsletter of the World Veterinary Poultry Association

President’s message ...................................... 1

Avian Pathology .............................................. 2

XVII Congress of WVPA –Cancun, Mexico ............................................... 2

50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Branch ........................................... 3

The Australasian Veterinary Poultry Association ........................................ 4

Online masters in avian health and medicine ................................................... 5

Keith Gooderham Waterfowl Lecture ........ 5

The Turkish branch of the WVPA ................. 7

US poultry health ........................................... 7

Activities of the Czech branch .................... 8

Actualités en pathologie aviaire ................ 9

Latest Italian activities ............................... 11

National contacts for WVPA ...................... 13

Derzsy days ................................................... 14

Austrian branch report ............................... 14

American Association of Avian Pathologists ....................................... 15

Diary of meetings 2011 .............................. 16

Visit: www.wvpa.netFor more information on the association, membership, grants andawards, publications, meetings and links to related websites

It has been a busy time over the past few months! Issues concerning ourAssociation, especially its future, have occupied your officers and I mustpraise all the hard work that has been done by them and our Mexican col-leagues in relation to planning the upcoming world congress of the WVPA.

It is my great privilege to invite you to the 17th World Congress of theWVPA which is being held next year in Cancun, Mexico between 14th and18th August 2011. Please consider this as my personal call to you to join meand your professional colleagues in Cancun for what promises to be a greatcongress. You will find the congress website at www.wvpc2011cancun.org

We are delighted that Mexico is hosting the first congress of WVPA in theAmericas outside the USA and I hope there will be a strong attendance fromthat region to support the Mexicans. This event will attract scientific contri-butions from poultry disease experts, researchers and other industry pro-fessionals from around the world.

You can be assured that the scientific committee are preparing an exciting,comprehensive and high quality scientific program that will span all aspectsof poultry health and production. I am sure that this congress will providean excellent opportunity to promote collaborative research among colleaguesfrom around the world, promote the careers of young researchers in the fieldof diagnosis and control of poultry diseases and, finally, build and strengthenour friendships and working relationships. In addition, you will be able toenjoy the unique rich culture of Mexico, its food, beautiful landscapes andhistoric sites. Therefore, please make your plans now to visit Mexico nextAugust.

Please remember, this is YOUR Association! Our mission is to be the voiceof the poultry health professionals all over the world. Without your supportwe cannot exist! What can you do to help WVPA move ahead? A key area isto encourage colleagues and other professionals you work with to becomeWVPA members. There are professional colleagues who would really bene-fit from WVPA membership. Your help in contacting these individuals wouldbe greatly appreciated. We also need your help in increasing the involvementof students with our Association as these individuals are our future!

In closing, I enjoy hearing from you and I value your inputs, so please con-tinue to share ideas and suggestions that can progress the evolution of ourAssociation.

Finally, I would sincerely like to extend my best wishes and hope for a won-derful 2011 for each and every one of you! See you in Cancun!

Prof. Dr Hafez M. Hafez President of WVPA

President’s message

Aerosols • 2Winter 2010

Editorial policy remains with the HoughtonTrust Ltd and the Editor-in-Chief and Associ-ate Editors. However, it has been and is theintent and policy of the Trustees to consultand inform the WVPA wherever possible onappropriate matters. Avian Pathology is nowestablished as a leader amongst avian andveterinary science journals.

The Trust now has capital and income thatallows it to support a number of charitable ac-tivities connected with the interests of theWVPA. At the moment the Trust supportspromising young researchers throughout theworld to make short training visits to labora-tories and to attend appropriate scientificmeetings to further their knowledge in aviandisease. It also supports the Houghton Lec-ture at WVPA congresses. It is currently look-ing at other charitable activities it couldsupport and would welcome suggestionsfrom WVPA members.

Peter M. BiggsChairman of the Houghton Trust Ltd

Avian Pathology journal and the Houghton Trust

Everything is heading towards another greatWVPA Congress in Cancun, Mexico on 14-18th August 2011.

Time is running out so please remember:

1 – to check your paper has been receivedand you have been advised of its acceptance.

2 – to book your place at this prestigious conference.

3 – to book your flight!

This article is intended to provide a brief historical background to the connection between Avian Pathology journal, the WVPAand the Houghton Trust, which may be unfamiliar to newer WVPA members.

Avian Pathology was established as the jour-nal of the WVPA in 1972. Initially the produc-tion office was in the then Yugoslavia andeditorial office in Czechoslovakia.

Professor Klimeš was the driving force forestablishing the journal and the first Editor-in-Chief, but unfortunately he had to give upthe responsibility because of ill health. I wasappointed Editor-in Chief and established theEditorial Office in the UK. It was soon appar-ent that it was difficult and impractical tohave the editorial and production offices indifferent countries.

After much searching a suitably experiencedsmall printing company was found in Eng-land and the publishing of the journal wasmoved to the UK in 1974. The editorial andpublishing costs had to be supported by sub-scriptions to the journal. In 1973 the Bureau ofthe WVPA agreed to lend the journal £800 toassist in its establishment and in 1975 the Bu-reau agreed to underwrite the journal for thesum of £1000.

However, these sums were never taken upand were small compared to the publishingcosts of the journal. Therefore, with the agree-ment of the Bureau a charitable limited com-pany, Avian Pathology Ltd, was formed in1980 to financially protect the editors and Bu-reau members in the event of failure and toremove liability to tax.

From that time Avian Pathology has contin-ued to be the official journal of the WVPA butis owned by the charitable company whichlater changed its name to the Houghton TrustLtd.

This means that the Trustees of theHoughton Trust Ltd and its Committee ofManagement are responsible for the publish-ing of the journal and for its financial security.In 1991, with the agreement of the Bureau ofthe WVPA, publication was put in the handsof a professional publishing house.

Since that time it and its successors havepublished the journal on behalf of theHoughton Trust Ltd with whom the contractfor the publishing of the journal is made. The

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Above, attendees at the

Jubilee Meeting and, below,

Prof. János Mészáros.

The Poultry Health Association (PHA) of theHungarian Veterinary Association (HVA) helda meeting at the SZIE Faculty of VeterinarySciences to celebrate its 50th Anniversary.

Many veterinarians, sponsors and invitedguests participated despite unfavourableweather conditions. All registered partici-pants received an exquisite jubilee bookletand the painting ‘Poultry in the Farmyard’from István Kedves, that was specially com-missioned for the occasion.

The event was opened by Johannes Brahms’Academic Festival Overture followed by theopening address of the President, JánosBenyeda.

He highlighted that the Hungarian Veteri-nary Association was founded by 33 enthusi-astic veterinarians on the 15th of February1880 and is still operating after certain in-evitable ‘side tracks’. Poultry health became amajor factor within veterinary sciences onlyduring the 1950s with the arrival of big scalepoultry production. This was followed by theestablishment of the Poultry Health Division50 years ago.

The first president of the Division, the pred-ecessor of the PHA was János Mészáros. Theacademic led the association for 44 years andis still actively involved today as its honorarypresident. The Association strives tostrengthen solidarity within the veterinaryprofession through training, research and thepublications of its members thereby fulfillingthe aims of the HVA laid down in 1880.

The next speaker was Miklós Süth, ChiefVeterinary Officer and State Secretary whosaid that the preceding generations of poultryhealth veterinarians have the right to claimthat poultry health is a dominant field of vet-erinary sciences. This was and will be due tothe outstanding performance of the membersof the PHA in research, publications and fieldwork. The fact that Hungary is the only coun-try to have two scientists who had poultrydiseases named after them (Marek’s diseaseand Derzsy disease) shows the high standardsof Hungarian poultry health sciences!

László Fodor, Dean of the SZIE Faculty ofVeterinary Sciences and President of the HVA,thanked the members for their enthusiasticparticipation over the years which had madethe PHA one of the most active associationswithin the HVA.

The next speaker, Professor Sándor Tuboly,emphasised the importance of zoonoses inpoultry health, such as chlamydiosis, campy-lobacteriosis and, the most important foodsafety issue, salmonellosis.

László Kőrösi, secretary of the PHA read outthe letter from Professor Mohamed Hafez,President of the WVPA congratulating thePHA on this jubilee event and appreciating itsactivities.

János Benyeda thanked academician JánosMészáros, the founder and honorary presi-dent of the PHA for his 44 years of presidencywith a signet ring depicting the number 50.

Professor János Mészáros was then the firstspeaker of the day, the subject of his talk wasthe 50-year history of the Association and itsprofessional and scientific successes. He wasfollowed by: l Vilmos Palya and János Benyeda: PoultryDiseases of the Past 50 Years.l Éva Ivanics, Róbert Glávits and VilmosPalya: Infectious Diseases of the Goose.l László Kerekes: Turkey Health Issues inHungary.l János Tanyi: Diseases of the Duck.l Péter Horn: The Future of Poultry Breed-ing.l Zoltán Sütő: Poultry in Art.

The event was ended by the closing addressof János Benyeda, President of the PHA of theHVA.

Dr László Korösi,Secretary of the Hungarian Branch

50th Anniversary of the Hungarian branch of WVPA


The Australasian VeterinaryPoultry Association

which we would welcome hearing of the ex-periences and perspective from your country.

In Australia, after having enjoyed close con-trol on production sites for some years, weare now having to wrestle with control ofILT.

It appears that this situation has come aboutas a direct result of having the layer industryin close proximity to our broilers.

The ability of the ILT herpesvirus to persistin vaccinated layers, and also to undergo pe-riodic reactivation and spread of infectivityby varied routes makes control of ILT in broil-ers most difficult. While infected sites can be‘swamped’ with vaccine in the broilers, it isnow not uncommon to find ILT diseasebreaks out again a year or so later.

This is a most frustrating situation for avianveterinary practitioners who, for example,may have an infected broiler farm locatedonly 250m away from a well run layer farmwith 100% vaccination but can have a fewbirds showing clinical ILT.

In Australia the national biosecurity policyprevents international live vaccines coming inso we have only CEO (chick embryo origin)vaccines available for use in control.

On the east coast we continue to suffer fromISS in our broilers. Unfortunately, the viralcause(s) of ISS are not amenable to the devel-opment of procedures for eradication. Ourlayer industry is moving along with no signif-icant disease problems being apparent (atpresent!).

As for the current broader economic picturefor the poultry industry in Australia, it doesappear that the prices for red meat may nowbe moving beyond the reach of many house-holds for them to be eaten frequently.

Indeed sudden and quite severe rises in thecost of living in Australia during 2010 havetended to turn the consumer toward both theeggs and poultrymeat sectors of our industry.Eggs have been in relatively short supply forover a year, as has chicken meat for about thelast 10 months.

Hatchings of both have increased dramati-cally but without producing the predictedsurplus. As prices have remained good andwe have also had a year of moderate feedprices, this has allowed the industry the mar-gins to be able to afford to invest in plant andequipment to modernise the industry.

Ben Wells President AVPA

Trevor BagustWVPA Bureau

Member for AVPA

The AVPA covers two countries, NewZealand and Australia. October 2010 was theturn of New Zealand to host a scientific meet-ing and the chosen venue was Christchurch.Some 50 days before the meeting Christ-church experienced a major earthquake caus-ing significant damage to the city’s centralbusiness district.

After much agonising we decided to goahead in the venue and were pleasantly sur-prised that all the speakers made it and wealso had a good attendance.

There had been 1700 aftershocks since thebig one and we had a Richter 5.6 quake dur-ing our stay. This was a novel experience forthe Australians present, but the Kiwis seemedquite used to quakes!

New Zealand poultry production is largelydisease free having neither IBD nor ND andapparently no virulent Marek’s disease tocontend with.

For this reason the meeting had a welfarestream and was fortunate to have excellentspeakers from both Cobb and Aviagen. Theyspoke of the work that both companies aredoing to improve the welfare characteristicsof their birds.

Both groups have worked on the cardio-respiratory system to largely eliminate as-cites, are selecting heavily for improving legstrength and are working on gait scores andways to improve the immune functions oftheir birds.

On the second day we had some excellentscience from the industry and governmentfunded researchers from Australia and NewZealand.

The topics were diverse, and included Infec-tious Stunting Syndrome (ISS) presentationsand pathology of two forms, prospectsemerging for molecular manipulation ofavian immunity, monitoring and quality con-trol of campylobacter during processing andthrough to wild bird conservation programsoperating in New Zealand.

The next meeting will be held in Sydney on15th and 16th February 2011. We would likeyou all to take the opportunity to come downand be part of the meeting and then have alook at our large and sunny land!

We intend to have a major session on ILT, adisease for which interest and concern is cur-rently increasing in numerous regions and for


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The Turkish branch of the World VeterinaryAssociation publishes a semi-scientific maga-zine quarterly in Turkish. The name of themagazine is Mektup Ankara and it has beenrunning since 2003 (www.vtd.org.tr).

In 2010 the Turkish branch of the World Vet-erinary Poultry Association organised twoseminars. The first seminar entitled PoultryMeat and Egg Production: Targets and Poten-tial Problems was held on the 16th June. Thesubjects discussed in three sessions empha-sised production and exportation, food safetyand human health. Some 150 delegates fromindustry, the public sector, NGOs and univer-sities attended.l The first session – New Targets of Produc-tion and Exportation – was chaired by Prof.Ahmet Ergun (President of the TurkishBranch of the Veterinary Poultry Association).A paper on production and exportation in thepoultry meat sector was presented by Dr SaitKoca from the Poultry Meat Producers andBreeders Association-BESD-BIR and the eggsector was represented by Derya Pala fromEgg Producers Union-YUM-BIR.l The second session – Potential ProblemsAffecting Food Safety-I – was chaired byAssoc. Prof. Masum Burak (The General Di-rector of the General Directorate of The De-veloping of Agricultural Production-TUGEM). The subject of GMO: True and Falsewas presented by Prof. Hakan Yardımcı andthe subject of salmonella and campylobacterinfections in poultry was presented by Prof.Mehmet Akan.l The third session – Potential Problems Af-fecting Food Safety-II – was chaired by Assoc.Prof. Muzaffer Aydemir (The General Direc-tor of the General Directorate of The Protec-tion and Control-KKGM). The subject of mainpathogens in poultry meat and egg and con-trol strategies was presented by Prof. İrfanErol and the importance of antibiotic resist-ance in bacteria and monitoring was pre-sented by Prof. K. Serdar Diker.

The second seminar meeting, Poultry Dis-eases and Nutrition, was organised togetherwith the American Soybean Association onthe 15-16th September. Eight subjects were dis-cussed in two days as shown below. l Layers and broilers: recent developments

and future possibilities presented by Prof. Ju-lian Wiseman.l Commercial layer nutrition and manage-ment practices presented by Prof. Craig Coon.l Difficulties of the diagnosis of broiler dis-eases on farm – what laboratory methods dowe need and how to evaluate results pre-sented by Dr Imre Horvath-Papp.l Nutrient values of soybean meals from dif-ferent origins and its implication on feed for-mulation presented by Salim Bootwalla,DVM.l The ideal amino acid profile and require-ment for broilers, commercial layers, andbroiler breeders presented by Prof. CraigCoon.l Optimising the nutritional value of rawmaterials: the example of full fat soy beanpresented by Prof. Julian Wiseman.l Difficult respiratory disease cases in broil-ers and their solutions presented by Dr ImreHorvath-Papp.l Exogenous enzymes in poultry nutritionpresented by Prof. Julian Wiseman.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Erol Sengor

US poultry health

Overall, the health of the US poultry flock isgood with 42 day broiler livability averaging95% or better nationwide (Agristat, March2010). Some regional issues of respiratorydisease occurred last winter with no clearmajor aetiologic agent (no new IBV serotypes)identified. As the weather improved inspring, many of these issues resolved. Therewas a major move toward the use of coccidio-sis vaccines in the summer of 2010 in broilersby several companies and it will be interest-ing to see how well that program works out.

New regulations for SE in commercial layersby the Food and Drug Administration beganin July 2010 and for the broiler and turkey in-dustry USDA has announced new regulationsto lower the salmonella standard in the pro-cessing plant. The new broiler and turkey reg-ulations will also include standards forcampylobacter.

The Turkish branch of the WVPA


The Czech branch of WVPAwas established in January2001 at the State VeterinaryInstitute, Brno, which spe-cialised in poultry diseases.After the Institute’s restruc-turing, WVPA was moved tothe Veterinary and Pharma-ceutical University in Brno.

Each year, the Czech branchorganises an internationalSpring Seminar and Autumn

Conference. The Spring Seminar is only in-tended for veterinary specialists, and the Au-tumn Conference is intended for bothveterinarians and poultry breeders.

Here, current knowledge gained at interna-tional conferences of WVPA has been shared,and we also invite lecturers, leading expertsfrom WVPA and WPSA from our country as

well as from abroad. In view of the fact thatthere has been an active WPSA branch in theCzech Republic since 1994, which unitesprominent poultry breeders, cooperation ofboth the Czech branches of WVPA and WPSAhas been settled to coordinate the preparationof international conferences.

Such conjoined two-day meetings havetaken place since 2003. The first day is pre-dominantly devoted to breeding issues, andthe second day is dedicated to veterinaryhealth matters.

Regarding the fact that a nigh on eight-yearcooperation in conference organising hasproved to be extremely viable and beneficialto both breeders and veterinary specialists,we intend to continue in our common activi-ties in the future.

Before establishment of the WVPA in 2001,the specialised conferences had been organ-

Activities of the Czechbranch of the WVPA

Jean-Pierre Brillard of France

giving the lecture at the IX

International conference

ised since 1977 in cooperation with the Veteri-nary University and the Czech Association ofAvian Medicine.

This year, the 37th Czech Poultry Confer-ence was held on October 15 and 16th, andwas oriented to poultry health issues.

At present, the Czech branch of WVPA in-cludes 20 active members, who participate insolving problems on farms, are involved intraining of post-graduate students of veteri-nary medicine and last, but not least, they aremembers of editorial boards of specialisedjournals for breeders and veterinary practi-tioners.

Karel Kovařík, MVDr,Czech branch of WVPA


Every year in September, the French branchof WVPA organise the meeting ‘Actualités enpathologie aviaire’ (current issues in avianpathology), with the support of the poultrytechnical journal Filières Avicoles.

This annual conference takes place duringSPACE, one of the major European agricul-tural fairs held in Rennes, Brittany.

This year, the four conferences were givenby Rozenn Souillard and Charlotte Valat(Anses) on the persistence of Histomonas me-leagridis and its associated intestinal mi-croflora in the turkey; by jean-Marie Watier(Intervet) on the characteristics and patho-genicity of the REO ERS strain of enteritic re-ovirus; by Salman Zeitouni and IsabelleKempf (Anses) on their experimental study ofthe biological cost for campylobacter of theresistance to fluoroquinolones; and by JocelynMarguerie and Jean Yves Ferre (SNGTV) onthe translation in French regulations of theEuropean Directive 2007/43 on animal wel-fare in broilers. As every year, the meetinggathered more than 120 attendees, both vet-erinarian members of the French branch ofWVPA and poultry professionals from Franceand other countries.

On October 19th, the French branch ofWVPA organised a scientific workshop on thetopic of avian coronaviruses. This type ofworkshop was a new initiative by the Frenchbranch, which normally organises confer-ences twice yearly on mixed topics. The

workshop was organised with the support ofCeva Animal Health, Intervet-ScheringPlough, Merial and Pfizer. The morning wasdevoted to conferences given by Dr Sjaak DeWit, a specialist in infectious bronchitis at thelaboratory GD, Deventer, Netherlands, whowas invited to discuss the cross-protectionamong different coronaviruses and practicalconsiderations of vaccine success.

A presentation by Dr Paul Britton (IAH,Houghton, UK), who unfortunately could notjoin the meeting, was also presented. The af-ternoon programme described the French sit-uation and discussed the various vaccinationstrategies for disease control.

Several issues were discussed with field andlaboratory approaches.

A roundtable ended the day with companyrepresentatives. Some 50 poultry veterinari-ans, all members of the French branch, ac-tively participated in this successful day.

Dr Nicolas Eterradossi, President

Actualités en pathologie aviaire

Photographed below: Paul Morillon (Merial), Jean Marie Watier and HarisMalo (Intervet), Hervé le Galludec (Pfizer) and JeanPaul Cazaban (Ceva).

Above, attendees at the

IX International conference

‘Poultry 2010’ in Brno



In 2010, SIPA, the Italian branch of the WVPAchanged its management board. The formerSecretary, Dr Guido Grilli (Veterinary Medi-cine Faculty, University of Milan), is the newPresident. The Vice President is Prof. Alessan-dro Fioretti (Veterinary Medicine Faculty, Uni-versity of Naples) and the Secretary is DrAlessandra Piccirillo (Veterinary MedicineFaculty, University of Padua).

Prof. Elena Catelli (Veterinary Medicine Fac-ulty, University of Bologna), Dr RaffaellaCeruti (Amadori Group), Dr Emilio Moran-dini (Veronesi Verona Spa), Dr FrancescoPrandini (Merial Italia), Dr Calogero Ter-regino (Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentaledelle Venezie) and Dr Leonardo James Vinco(Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dellaLombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna) are theother members of the Board.

This Foundation Board will be in office for athree-year period, from 2010 to 2012.

The membership of the Italian branch of theWVPA is composed of veterinary and non-veterinary researchers, public, private and in-dustry veterinarians, technicians, poultrycompany owners, industries supporting poul-try production representatives, and flockmanagers.

Currently, SIPA is sponsored by 18 compa-nies, among them pharmaceutical companiesand poultry breeders.

During 2010, SIPA has organised three meet-ings on topics of interest to both governmentand private veterinarians.

The 49th annual meeting of SIPA was heldon 29-30th April in Forlì. During the morningof the first day, three presentations focused onthe health status of the Italian poultry produc-tion sector, outlining the epidemiological situ-ation regarding poultry respiratory diseases,avian infectious laryngotracheitis and salmo-nellosis in particular.

In the afternoon, eight oral communicationsby SIPA members were followed by the an-nual membership meeting.

During the morning of the second day, therewas a conference on special topics concerningdisinfection, pest and rodent control: the es-sential key of biosecurity in the poultry indus-try. Prof Agostino Macrì from the IstitutoSuperiore di Sanità (Rome, Italy) spoke ondisinfection and pest control in the poultry in-dustry: legislative aspects and the use of ac-tive ingredients; Dr Mark Alistair Beghian

(Unitec srl, DuPont Disinfectants – AnimalHealth) spoke on hygiene in the poultry in-dustry: motivations, realisation and ap-plicative solutions; Dr GuglielmoPampiglione (GP, expert in pest manage-ment) spoke on integrated control againstinsects and rodents.

In the afternoon, during the last sessionof the meeting, 14 SIPA members gaveoral communications presenting the re-sults of their studies on different topics.

On 23rd June, the Symposium ‘Der-manyssus gallinae: a never-ending battlefor the poultry industry’, organised incollaboration with the Italian Society ofParasitology (SOIPA), was held in Peru-gia.

During this meeting, Dr Monique Mul,Wageningen, The Netherlands, spoke onthe biology and monitoring of Dermanys-sus gallinae in poultry farms; Dr MariaAssunta Cafiero from Italy spoke on epi-demiological and health aspects of Der-manyssus gallinae and Prof AntonioCamarda, also from Italy, considered therole of Dermanyssus gallinae as vector:old and new insights. Another Italian,Prof Annunziata Giangaspero, spoke onthe use of and risks associated with chemicalsfor Dermanyssosis control; and Dr Olivier A.E. Sparagano from the UK considered new in-sights in Dermanyssosis control.

On 12th November, a round table on emerg-ing arboviral diseases: role of wild birds inspreading and risks for the poultry industrywas held in Pisa.

During the morning, Dr Michele Dottori andDr Maurizio Tamba spoke on intensive poul-try production and mosquito-borne arboviraldiseases, followed by a speech of Dr ClaudioBandi on Arthropod vectors: biological as-pects and new approaches for their control.

Afterward, Prof Paolo Mani spoke on therole of wild birds in spreading mosquito-borne Flavivirus in Italy and Dr Rossella Lellispoke on the National Reference Centre forexotic diseases.

In 2011 the Italian branch of the WVPA willcelebrate its 50th Anniversary.

Alessandra Piccirillo,secretary of the Italian

branch of WVPA (SIPA)

Italian branch of the WVPA

Your officers would greatlyappreciate any feedback onWVPA and its activities.

Please send your feedback toany of the four officers high-lighted on page 13 using theemails cited there.


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National contacts for WVPA

For countries not listed above contact should be made with the secretary of the WVPA at:[email protected]

PRESIDENTProf. Hafez. M. HafezUniversity of Berlin, GermanyEmail: [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENTProf. Trevor BagustUniversity of Melbourne, AustraliaEmail: [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENTProf. Erhard KaletaUniversity of Giessen, GermanyEmail: [email protected]

SECRETARY - TREASURERDr Ursula Heffels-RedmannUniversity of Giessen, GermanyEmail: [email protected]

Your officers


Derzsy Days

This year the Hungarian Branch and Ceva-Phylaxia organised the 18th Derzsy Days on4-5th June. More than 250 veterinarians par-ticipated in the annual two day symposium.

Dr Matthias Todte from Germany presentedhis talk of metabolic disorders of fast growingbroilers. A whole section focused on salmo-nella. Other presentations were about animalwelfare, enteritis of waterfowl, protectionagainst variant IB infections, spray vaccina-tion method and use of laboratory serologymonitor programs.

The conference saw presentations of highstandards and provided an excellent opportu-nity for the participants to exchange knowl-edge.

The 19th Derzsy Days will be organised on2-3rd June 2011.

Dr László KőrösiSecretary of the Hungarian

Branch of WVPA

Austrian branch

The Austrian Branch of the WVPA currentlyhas 54 members, three more than in 2009. In2010 the group organised an annual meetingin cooperation with several organisations ofthe Austrian poultry business. It was held onthe 10th of June in the Monastery of Lilienfeldnear Vienna, a magnificent place to combineculture and science.

Participants had the chance to visit theMonastery which is situated on the classicalvia sacra (sacred road) – the traditional pil-grimage path in Austria.

Actually, the monastery of Lilienfeld is wellknown by the Gregorian chorals celebratedby the monks.

The focus of this meeting covered varioustopics for different species of poultry. The in-tention to also include practitioners as speak-ers talking about their own experience wasonce again kept and D. Gansinger took up theduty this time, focusing on the increasing im-portance of feed supplements within poultrydiets.

This talk was complemented by W. Wohlerwho approached this issue from the manufac-turer’s point of view. A different issue, the im-portance and impact of certain mycotoxins onperformance and outcome of vaccinations,was discussed by J. Böhm from the Instituteof Animal Nutrition, University of VeterinaryMedicine, Vienna.

From the same university and the Clinic forAvian, Reptile and Fish Medicine M. Hessgave an overview on actual viral diseases inbroilers, concentrating on infectious bronchi-tis and inclusion body hepatitis.

Finally, H. Schliessnig from the AnimalHealth Service introduced the recently imple-mented insurance system for layers testedpositive for salmonella, in order to minimisethe economic consequences for the farmers.

The program of this meeting was a goodcombination between scientific work andpractical information.

After the scientific session most of the par-ticipants enjoyed the tra-ditional food served inthe adjacent restaurant.

Prof. Dr Michael Hess, DVM, Dipl ECPVS,

Clinic for Avian, Reptile and Fish

Medicine, Departmentfor Farm Animals

and VeterinaryPublic Health,

University of Veterinary Medicine,

Vienna, Austria

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The American Association of Avian Patholo-gists met at the Georgia World Congress Cen-ter in Atlanta from 31st July-4th August 2010.The 3½ day event included a symposiumsponsored by the Animal Welfare and Man-agement Practices committee entitled AnimalWelfare: Reality, Perception and ThinkingOutside the Box.

The Scientific Program consisted of 114 oralpresentations and 92 poster presentations.Featured speakers included keynote speaker,Dr Christine Hoang whose address was titled,Is the Sky Falling? Current and Future Chal-lenges in Poultry Medicine, and Dr David Es-peseth whose Lasher-Eckroade HistoryLecture was titled, Historical Data on Estab-lishing Regulatory Oversight of Poultry Vac-cines. Reed Rumsey Award winners PayvandParvizi and Natalie K. Armour presentedtheir papers, RegulatoryT Cell Marker Expres-sion in Splenic CD4+and CD8+T Cell Subsetsof Chickens Infectedwith Marek’s DiseaseVirus (MDV) and Eval-uation of the Patho-genicity andTransmissibility of TwoRecent Mycoplasmasynoviae Isolates fromArkansas, respectively.

Milos Markis andChasity Cox were theRichard B. RimlerMemorial Paper awardwinners. Milospresented his paper,Feather Tip Monitoringof Marek’s DiseaseVirus in Experimentaland Commercial Set-tings, and Chasity pre-sented, The Effects ofDietary2-Glucan Sup-plementation on Per-formance and ImmuneResponse of BroilerChicks during an Eime-ria Challenge. TravisSchaal was the DwightSchwartz Travel Awardwinner and he pre-

American Association ofAvian Pathologists

sented, An Alternative to the Traditional Poul-try Pathologist – Veterinary Careers throughthe USDA Food Safety Inspection Service.

Other AAAP awards given at the AnnualMeeting included the Special Service Awardgiven to Hector Cervantes, the Phibro AnimalHealth Excellence in Poultry Research Awardto Frederic Hoerr, the Bayer-Snoeyenbos NewInvestigator Award given to Mary Pantin-Jackwood and Timothy Johnson, the P. P.Levine Award to Daniel Petkov, the Lasher-Bottorff Award given to Pedro Villegas, theBruce W. Calnek Applied Poultry ResearchAchievement award to Mark Jackwood, theOutstanding Field Case and/or DiagnosticReport Award to Joel Cline and the A. S.Rosenwald Student Poster Award to Ha-naYoun and Rodrigo Gallardo. Life Membershipin AAAP was given to Hans Micheal Optiz.

The 2010-2011 AAAP Board of Directors: Stewart Ritchie, Abbotsford, BC, President; Patricia Dunn, University Park, PA,President Elect; Charles Hofacre, Athens, GA, Secretary-Treasurer; Daniel Bautista, Georgetown, DE, Director, Northeast;Francene Van Sambeek, Cullman, AL, Director South; KentonKreager, Adel, IA, Director Central; Mark Bland, Napa, CA, Director Western; Susan Williams, Athens, GA, Director atLarge; Robert Porter, St. Paul, MN, Director at Large and JagdevSharma, Scottsdale, AZ, Past President.

Special Service Award Winner Hector Cervantes

Diary of Meetings 2011

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World Veterinary Poultry Associationwww.wvpa.net

June31 May - 2 June – Avi Africa, Johannesburg, South AfricaContact: www.sapoultry.co.za

2-3 – 19th Derzsy Days, HungaryContact: [email protected]

9-11 – VIV Turkey, Istanbul, TurkeyContact: www.viv.net

16-18 – 6th International Symposium on Turkey Production, Berlin, GermanyContact: [email protected]

August14-18 – XVIIth Congress of WVPA, Cancun, MexicoContact: www.wvpc2011cancun.o

30-31 – Incubation and Fertility Research Group, Ede, The NetherlandsContact: www.ifrg.org

31 August-3 September – 5th Workshop on Fundamental Physiology and Perinatal Development in Poultry,Wageningen, the NetherlandsContact: www.pdpworkshop2011.com

September4-7 – XX European Symposium on the Quality of Poultryand Poultry Meat and XIV European Symposium on theQuality of Eggs and Egg Products, Leipzig, GermanyContact: www.wpsa.com

6-9 – XXII Congreso Latinoamericano De Avicultura,Buenos Aires, ArgentinaContact: www.avicultura2011.com

7-9 – 30th WPSA Poultry Science Symposium –Alternative Systems for Poultry Production, Glasgow, UKContact: www.wpsa-uk.com

22-24 – VIV China, Beijing, ChinaContact: www.viv.net

October4-6 – Livestock Asia, Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaContact: www.ambexpo.com

5-7 – 7th European Symposium on Poultry Genetics, Edinburgh, ScotlandContact: [email protected]

31-4 November – 18th European Symposium on PoultryNutrition, Cesme, Izmir, TurkeyContact: www.espn2011.org

January 24-25 – International Poultry Scientific Forum, Atlanta, USAContact: www.ipe11.org

26-28 – International Poultry Exposition, Atlanta, USAContact: www.ipe11.org

February 14-16 – Australian Poultry Science Symposium, Sydney, AustraliaContact: www.sydney.edu.au/vetscience/apss

20-24 – African International Poultry Summit, Abeokuta,Ogun State, NigeriaContact: [email protected]

March7 – LabQA2011, Bangkok, ThailandContact: [email protected]

8 – Mycotoxins2011, Bangkok, ThailandContact: [email protected]

9-11 – VIV Asia and Lab@VIV Asia, Bangkok, ThailandContact: www.viv.net

17-18 – BVPA Spring Meeting, Harrogate, UKContact: www.bvpa.org.uk

25-27 – WPSA-BB 7th International Poultry Show andSeminar, Dhaka, BangladeshContact: [email protected]

29-30 – 9th French Avian Research Days, Tours, FranceContact: [email protected]

31-1 April – 5th Turkey Science and Production Conference, Macclesfield, UKContact: www.turkeytimes.co.uk

May3-5 – Victam International, Cologne, GermanyContact: www.victam.com

15-18 – 1st International Avian Respiratory Disease Conference, Athens, Georgia, USAContact: www.georgiacenter.uga.edu

17-19 – VIV Russia, Moscow, RussiaContact: www.viv.net

20-21 – International Course on Poultry Production,Raleigh, North Carolina, USAContact: [email protected]

Documents

President’s message · l Vilmos Palya and János Benyeda: Poultry Diseases of the Past 50 Years. l Éva Ivanics, Róbert Glávits and Vilmos Palya: Infectious Diseases of the Goose