Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
A history of FMD research and control programmes in Southeast Asia: lessons from the past informing the future.
- Journal:
- Epidemiology and infection
- Year:
- 2019
- Authors:
- Blacksell, Stuart D et al.
- Affiliation:
- Faculty of Tropical Medicine · United Kingdom
Plain-English summary
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a serious health issue for animals in Southeast Asia. While Indonesia and the Philippines have successfully eliminated the disease, it still affects many countries on the mainland. Efforts to control FMD have been hampered by several challenges, such as the illegal movement of livestock, difficulties in vaccination efforts, and a lack of knowledge among farmers about recognizing the disease. This research looks at past studies on FMD in the region and suggests ways to improve future efforts to eventually get rid of the disease altogether.
Abstract
Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a major animal health problem within Southeast Asia (SEA). Although Indonesia and more recently the Philippines have achieved freedom from FMD, the disease remains endemic on continental SEA. Control of FMD within SEA would increase access to markets in more developed economies and reduce lost productivity in smallholder and emerging commercial farmer settings. However, despite many years of vaccination by individual countries, numerous factors have prevented the successful control of FMD within the region, including unregulated 'informal' transboundary movement of livestock and their products, difficulties implementing vaccination programmes, emergence of new virus topotypes and lineages, low-level technical capacity and biosecurity at national levels, limited farmer knowledge on FMD disease recognition, failure of timely outbreak reporting and response, and limitations in national and international FMD control programmes. This paper examines the published research of FMD in the SEA region, reviewing the history, virology, epidemiology and control programmes and identifies future opportunities for FMD research aimed at the eventual eradication of FMD from the region.
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