[en] In 2011, the 79th General Session of the World Assembly of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and the 37th Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAD) Conference adopted a resolution declaring the world free from rinderpest and recommending follow-up measures to preserve the benefits of this new and hard-won situation. Eradication is an achievable objective for any livestock disease, provided that the epidemiology is uncomplicated and the necessary tools, resources and policies are available. Eradication at a national level inevitably reflects national priorities, whereas global eradication requires a level of international initiative and leadership to integrate these tools into a global framework, aimed first at suppressing transmission across all infected areas and concluding with a demonstration thatthis has been achieved. With a simple transmission chain and the environmental fragility of the virus, rinderpest has always been open to control and even eradication within a zoosanitary approach. However, in the post-1945 drive for more productive agriculture, national and global vaccination programmes became increasingly relevant and important. As rinderpest frequently spread from one region to another through trade-related livestock movements, the key to global eradication was to ensure that such vaccination programmes were carried out in a synchronised manner across all regions where the disease was endemic - an objective to which the European Union, the United States Agency for International Development, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the African Union-Interafrican Bureau of Animal Resources, FA0 and OIE fully subscribed. This article provides a review of rinderpest eradication, from the seminal work carried out by Giovanni Lancisi in the early 18th Century to the global declaration in 2011.
Disciplines :
Veterinary medicine & animal health
Author, co-author :
Njeumi, Félix; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy
Taylor, William
Diallo, Adama
Miyagishima, K.
Pastoret, Paul-Pierre ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Médecine vétérinaire et santé animale
Vallat, Bernard
Traore, Mohammed Sahar
Language :
English
Title :
The long journey: a brief review of the eradication of rinderpest.
Publication date :
2012
Journal title :
Revue Scientifique et Technique. Office International des Epizooties
ISSN :
0253-1933
eISSN :
1608-0637
Publisher :
Office International des Epizooties (OIE), Paris, France
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