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Animal Diseases - Eradication and Monitoring Programmes

AIMS:

Eradication and monitoring programmes aim at progressively eliminating animal diseases that are endemic in certain areas of the Community. They also include checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses.

CONTENTS:

The programmes include a wide range of measures including vaccination, testing of animals, compensation for slaughtering or culling, treatment.

Diseases covered:

  • Group 1  Endemic diseases, subject to mandatory or voluntary control and/or eradication measures on a herd or flock basis:

  • Bovine tuberculosis
  • Bovine brucellosis
  • IBR/IPV (Artificial Insemination + embryo units)
  • Ovine and caprine brucellosis (B. melitensis)
  • Enzootic bovine leukosis (EBL)
  • Aujeszky's disease
  • Salmonella pullorum
  • Salmonella gallinarum
  • Anthrax
  • Maedi/Visna and CAEV
  • IBR/IPV (other types of enterprise)
  • Johnes disease (paratuberculosis)
  • Mycoplasma gallisepticum
  • CBPP
  • African swine fever
  • swine vesicular disease
  • endemic classical swine fever
  • Infectious hematopoietic necrosis (IHN)
  • Heartwater, babesiosis and anaplasmosis transmited by vector insects in the French overseas departments
  • Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA)
  • Bluetongue in endemic or high risk areas
  • Group 2  Zoonoses or epizootics not covered elsewhere measures on a herd or flock basis:

  • Rabies
  • Echinococcosis
  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or any other slow developing diseas
 
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