Workshop on Establishing a Network for the Control of Animal Diseases and Zoonoses (WP4)
The workshop concentrated on establishing the network for control of animal diseases and zoonoses. During the three-day workshop, 96 participants including scientists, experts and students from 35 institutions representing three continents, Asia, Europe and America, took part in the workshop discussions. With respect to the gender distribution, 37% of participants were female. During the 2nd and 3rddays,32 delegates presented their research findings, focusing on the following:
- What we can learn from sequencing vector-borne viruses, coronaviruses and novel bat viruses about their origin, evolution, vaccine development, etc.;
- The challenges of brucellosis diagnosis, and how to choose the best laboratory diagnostic strategy and tools for each scenario;
- The promising results for developing a recombinant reverse genetic vaccine for rabies control in China, where rabies is a re-emerging problem, particularly in rural areas;
- An update on the current epidemiological surveys for bovine tuberculosis;
- How ecological and epidemiological methods for investigations on animal diseases can be integrated;
- The ongoing efforts to produce an effective and safe vaccine against African swine fever virus (ASFV)
- The challenges that China may face regarding the prevention, detection and response process to African swine fever and the need to be alert and prepared;
- The enhanced pathogenicity of a new pseudorabies virus emerging in China and the promising results of a newly developed gene-deleted vaccine;
- An overview of the different PRRS diagnostic technologies available and when to use each of them
- An update on and uses for field diagnostics;
- The use of viral metagenomics in the identification of diarrhea of unknown cause in pigs in China;
- Two laboratory tools developed by FAO to aid laboratories: the laboratory mapping tool and the genetic module
- TADs: avian influenza (AI), classical swine fever (CSF), African swine fever (ASF), porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and Newcastle disease (ND).
- Emerging and remerging diseases: porcine endemic diarrhea (PED), duck Tembusu virus infection and variant pseudorabies.
- Zoonoses: rabies, Japanese encephalitis (JE), brucellosis and tuberculosis (TB).
The agenda for the meeting can be found attached below
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