Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Interaction between research and diagnosis and surveillance of avian influenza within the Caribbean animal health network (CaribVET).
- Journal:
- Transboundary and emerging diseases
- Year:
- 2010
- Authors:
- Lefrançois, T et al.
- Affiliation:
- CIRAD
- Species:
- bird
Plain-English summary
The Caribbean region is at risk for avian influenza (AI), a serious bird disease, mainly due to backyard poultry systems, commercial poultry farms, and migratory birds. To help monitor and control this disease, the Caribbean animal health network, known as CaribVET, has created tools like a standardized surveillance protocol and a website dedicated to AI information. Between June 2006 and March 2009, they tested 303 samples from four Caribbean countries to check for the virus. After an outbreak in the Dominican Republic in 2007, they developed a questionnaire to understand how AI could spread, particularly through fighting cocks, and made recommendations to improve controls and safety measures. Overall, these efforts aim to enhance the monitoring of avian influenza in the Caribbean and support future research on the risks associated with the disease.
Abstract
The Caribbean region is considered to be at risk for avian influenza (AI) because of predominance of the backyard poultry system, important commercial poultry production, migratory birds and disparities in the surveillance systems. The Caribbean animal health network (CaribVET) has developed tools to implement AI surveillance in the region: (i) a regionally harmonized surveillance protocol, (ii) specific web pages for AI surveillance on http://www.caribvet.net, and (iii) a diagnostic network for the Caribbean including AI virus molecular diagnostic capability in Guadeloupe and technology transfer. Altogether 303 samples from four Caribbean countries were tested between June 2006 and March 2009 by real time PCR either for importation purposes or following clinical suspicion. Following AI H5N2 outbreaks in the Dominican Republic in 2007, a questionnaire was developed to collect data for risk analysis of AI spread in the region through fighting cocks. The infection pathway of Martinique commercial poultry sector by AI through introduction of infected cocks was designed and recommendations were provided to the Caribbean veterinary services to improve fighting cock movement controls and biosecurity measures. Altogether, these CaribVET activities contribute to strengthen surveillance of AI in the Caribbean region and may allow the development of research studies on AI risk analysis.
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