OIE: Animal diseases are here to stay
World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) admitted that some diseases are becoming a global concern due to the way they are spreading recently.
The information was presented in the latest OIE report released in May and it describes HPAI as being one of the issues that stir up a global concern due to the speed of spreading registered since early 2017.
HPAI is now reported as present in 40% of the 181 OIE member countries. The most recent confirmed outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the United States occurred in March 2017, when an H7N9 virus was found in a 74,000-chicken flock in Tennessee, according to information from the OIE and U.S. Department of Agriculture. The flock was depopulated, reports AVMA portal.
Earlier, Canadian officials last reported finding HPAI among commercial animals in 2015, when an H5N2 outbreak occurred in turkeys, OIE information states. This year, Mexican authorities reported finding an H7N3 strain on a chicken farm in February 2018.
Small ruminants fever outbreaks are also more frequent in new countries, despite a project to eradicate the disease by 2030, according to the report.
Also, the paper mentioned tuberculosis in cattle and rabies as big problems, despite campaigns to eliminate the global TB epidemic and end dog-transmitted rabies infections in humans, also by 2030. At the same time, researchers concluded that lumpy skin disease of cattle is spreading to new countries, expanding into Europe from its usual range in Africa and the Middle East.
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