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Journal article
Assessment of the control measures of the category A diseases of Animal Health Law: peste des petits ruminants
EFSA journal, Vol.19(7), pp.1-94
07/2021
PMCID: PMC8323035
PMID: 34354766
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Abstract
EFSA received a mandate from the European Commission 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 will be assessed, with this opinion covering the assessment of control measures for peste des petits ruminants (PPR). 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 radii of the protection and surveillance zones, and the minimum length of time the 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 radii 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 of 21 days was assessed as effective, except for the first affected establishments detected, where 33 days is recommended. It was concluded that beyond the protection (3 km) and the surveillance zones (10 km) only 9.6% (95% CI: 3.1–25.8%) and 2.3% (95% CI: 1–5.5%) of the infections from an affected establishment may occur, respectively. This may be considered sufficient to contain the disease spread (95% probability of containing transmission corresponds to 5.3 km). Recommendations provided for each of the scenarios assessed 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 PPR.
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- Title
- Assessment of the control measures of the category A diseases of Animal Health Law: peste des petits ruminants
- Creators
- Søren Saxmose NielsenJulio AlvarezDominique Joseph Bicout - Environnement et Prévention en Santé des PopulationsPaolo CalistriElisabetta CanaliKlaus DepnerJulian Ashley DreweBruno Garin-BastujiJosé Luis Gonzales RojasChristian GortázarMette HerskinVirginie MichelMiguel Ángel Miranda ChuecaBarbara PadalinoPaolo PasqualiHelen Clare RobertsLiisa Helena SihvonenHans SpoolderKarl StåhlAntonio VelardeArvo ViltropChristoph WincklerSimon GubbinsGenevieve LibeauAlessandro BrogliaInma AznarYves van der StedeEFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW)
- Publication Details
- EFSA journal, Vol.19(7), pp.1-94
- Publisher
- European Food Safety Authority
- Identifiers
- 991013293349602368
- Copyright
- © 2021 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