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Journal article
Assessment of the control measures for category A diseases of Animal Health Law: Lumpy Skin Disease
EFSA journal, Vol.20(1), pp.1-70
01/2022
PMCID: PMC8784982
PMID: 35106095
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Abstract
EFSA received a mandate from the EC to assess the effectiveness of some of the control measures against diseases included in the Category A list according to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 on transmissible animal diseases ('Animal Health Law'). This opinion belongs to a series of opinions where these control measures are assessed, with this opinion covering the assessment of control measures for Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD). In this opinion, EFSA and the AHAW Panel of experts review the effectiveness of: i) clinical and laboratory sampling procedures, ii) monitoring period and iii) the minimum radius of the protection and surveillance zones, and the minimum length of time that measures should be applied in these zones. The general methodology used for this series of opinions has been published elsewhere; nonetheless, the transmission kernels used for the assessment of the minimum radius of the protection and surveillance zones are shown. Several scenarios for which these control measures had to be assessed were designed and agreed prior to the start of the assessment. The monitoring period was assessed as effective, and based on the transmission kernels available, it was concluded that the protection zone of 20 km radius and the surveillance zone of 50 km radius would comprise > 99% of the transmission from an affected establishment if transmission occurred. Recommendations provided for each of the assessed scenarios aim to support the European Commission in the drafting of further pieces of legislation, as well as for plausible ad hoc requests in relation to LSD.
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- Title
- Assessment of the control measures for category A diseases of Animal Health Law: Lumpy Skin Disease
- Creators
- Soren Saxmose NielsenJulio AlvarezDominique Joseph Bicout - VetAgro SupPaolo CalistriElisabetta CanaliJulian Ashley DreweBruno Garin-BastujiJose Luis Gonzales RojasChristian Gortazar SchmidtMette HerskinVirginie MichelMiguel Angel Miranda ChuecaBarbara PadalinoPaolo PasqualiLiisa Helena SihvonenHans SpoolderKarl StahlAntonio VelardeArvo ViltropChristoph WincklerKris De ClercqSimon GubbinsEyal KlementJan Arend StegemanSotiria-Eleni AntoniouInma AznarAlessandro BrogliaYves Van der StedeGabriele ZancanaroHelen Clare RobertsEFSA Panel Anim Hlth Welf AHAW
- Publication Details
- EFSA journal, Vol.20(1), pp.1-70
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 70
- Identifiers
- 991013293552902368
- Copyright
- © 2022 European Food Safety Authority. EFSA Journal published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd on behalf of European Food Safety Authority. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and no modifications or adaptations are made.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering; Veterinary Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article