Publications by authors named "Frederic Poudevigne"
Informing resilience building: FAO's Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) Biothreat Detection Module will help assess national capacities to detect agro-terrorism and agro-crime.
Gisela Vasconcelos Gioia Gaël Lamielle Ryan Aguanno Ihab ElMasry Béatrice Mouillé Frédéric Poudevigne
One Health Outlook
July 2021
Article Synopsis
- * A joint international project by OIE, FAO, and INTERPOL, launched in 2019, aims to enhance preparedness against agro-terrorism and agro-crime impacting animal health, with support from Canada.
- * The project incorporates the FAO Surveillance Evaluation Tool (SET) and a new Biothreat Detection Module to assess countries' abilities to detect animal health threats, with a pilot implementation planned for early 2021.
African swine fever virus p72 genotype IX, associated with outbreaks in eastern Africa, is cocirculating in the Republic of the Congo with West African genotype I. Data suggest that viruses from eastern Africa are moving into western Africa, increasing the threat of outbreaks caused by novel viruses in this region.
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