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Webinar: Launch of Guidelines ‘Mitigating Disease Transmission Risk at the Wildlife – Livestock Interface to Facilitate Safe Trade’
WOAH is hosting webinar to mark the launch of the WOAH Guidelines ‘Mitigating Disease Transmission Risk at the Wildlife–Livestock Interface to Facilitate Safe Trade’.
Transboundary animal diseases (TADs), such as African swine fever (ASF), avian influenza (AI) and foot and mouth disease (FMD) continue to spread worldwide, with serious consequences for animal health, trade and livelihoods. In many countries where these diseases are endemic, infections can pass between wild and domestic animals, sustaining infection transmission cycles that are difficult to control because of the complex factors and risk pathways involved.
For some diseases, WOAH standards allow the recognition of animal health status in effectively separated subpopulations and require that Members do not ban international livestock trade solely in response to disease occurrences in wildlife.
These guidelines offer practical approaches for reducing the risk of disease spillover between wildlife and livestock populations, applicable across a range of farming systems. They present a structured methodology to support Veterinary Services in managing any wildlife-livestock interface scenarios through customised risk mitigation programmes, with interventions tailored to local conditions.
To present these guidelines, the launch webinar will be offered in English. The guidelines will also be made available in French and Spanish in due course.
Agenda
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 - 1:05 pm | Opening remarks | Dr Baba Soumare (TBD) WOAH DDG |
| 1:05 - 1:10 pm | Drafting of the guidelines (Background and process) | Dr Yuka Moribe WOAH |
| 1:10 – 1:35 pm | Overview of the guidelines | Prof Christian Gortázar Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC), Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha |
| 1:35 - 1:50 pm | Member’s experience (ASF) | Dr Silvia Bellini Vice President of SCAD; Staff Director, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia Romagna, Italy |
| 1:50 - 2:00 pm | Member’s experience (HPAI) | Dr Daniela Pacheco de Lacerda Departamento de Saúde Animal – Ministério da Agricultura e Pecuária, Brazil |
| Q&A (25 min) | ||
| 2:25 – 2:30 pm | Next steps and closing remarks | Dr Gregorio Torres WOAH |
