Manual on Procedures for Disease Eradication by Stamping Out

Manual on Procedures for Disease Eradication by Stamping Out

Author: W. A. Geering

Publisher: Fao

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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African swine fever (ASF) is a disease with a mortality rate close to 100 percent. There is no vaccine and no conventional treatment against the disease. To reduce the effects caused by ASF outbreaks, optimal response mechanisms against probable ASF emergency disease situations need to be planned and rehearsed so that the disease can be controlled and eradicated in the most rapid and cost-effective way. These plans should be refined from time to time through simulation exercises and personnel should be trained in their individual roles and responsibilities. This manual provides information on the nature of ASF, and on the principles of, and strategic options for its prevention, control and elimination. Guidelines are given for individual countries threatened by ASF to formulate their own national policy on control and eradication of a possible incursion of the disease. The manual identifies both personnel and equipment and other facilities that are needed in a national ASF contingency plan. An outline of the suggested format and contents of a national contingency plan is also provided as a guide, which can be modified to suit the needs and circumstances of individual countries.


Manual on Livestock Disease Surveillance and Information Systems

Manual on Livestock Disease Surveillance and Information Systems

Author:

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13:

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Defining importance of diseases; FAO/EMPRES: a new emphasis; Early detection; The need for surveillance; What is surveillance?; Surveillance on the ground; Putting a surveilance system in place; Surveillance for what?; Surveillance when and how?; Surveillance in resource-poor countries; Information systems; Setting the goals; Determining needs and outputs; Computerisation; Questionnaire design; Databases; Data quality control; Feedback; The role of GIS; Motivating and training field staff; Awareness creation among decision-makers; Using surveillance as a management tool; FAO involvement in surveillance and information systems development; Examples of questionnaires.


Manual for the management of operations during an animal health emergency

Manual for the management of operations during an animal health emergency

Author: Münstermann, S., Sow, M., Gbaguidi, L.A.M.

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9251362076

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The benefit of an adequate framework for the management of animal health emergency operations has been repeatedly shown over the years, highlighting a need to build and upgrade capabilities to effectively and efficiently manage animal health emergency operations at all levels. This need can begin to be met through the guidance provided in this manual. Equipped with practical examples, samples and guidelines, this manual supports countries and relevant local, national, regional and international organizations as they prepare for and manage operations during an animal health emergency. The manual is designed to be used in line with the 'Good Emergency Management Practice: The Essentials' manual, applying Good Emergency Management Practice (GEMP) principles and a One Health approach, and providing a global view of how to act during the peacetime and emergency phases of animal health events. This global manual is presented in such a way that veterinary services and relevel local authorities in countries around the world can use the information therein as guidance to create or adapt their own systems, and build a customized emergency operations management manual.


Guide for All-Hazard Emergency Operations Planning

Guide for All-Hazard Emergency Operations Planning

Author: Kay C. Goss

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1998-05

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 078814829X

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Meant to aid State & local emergency managers in their efforts to develop & maintain a viable all-hazard emergency operations plan. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. It offers the best judgment & recommendations on how to deal with the entire planning process -- from forming a planning team to writing the plan. Specific topics of discussion include: preliminary considerations, the planning process, emergency operations plan format, basic plan content, functional annex content, hazard-unique planning, & linking Federal & State operations.


Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response

Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response

Author: World Health Organization

Publisher: World Health Organization

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 9241547685

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This guidance is an update of WHO global influenza preparedness plan: the role of WHO and recommendations for national measures before and during pandemics, published March 2005 (WHO/CDS/CSR/GIP/2005.5).


Preparation of Rift Valley Fever Contingency Plans

Preparation of Rift Valley Fever Contingency Plans

Author: W. A. Geering

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9789251048214

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Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a mosquito-borne viral animal disease which causes periodic severe epidemics, principally involving ruminant animals. As well as its severe socio-economic and public health consequences, this serious transboundary animal disease is a major constraint to international livestock trade. This manual provides information on the nature of RVF and options for its prevention, control and elimination. It outlines a suggested national RVF contingency plan, to be modified to suit the circumstances of individual countries, as well as identifying personnel, equipment and other facilities required.


Good emergency management practice - The essentials

Good emergency management practice - The essentials

Author: Gary, F., Clauss, M., Bonbon, E., Myers, L.

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2021-05-27

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9251341273

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Animal health emergencies are evolving, but they remain among the most challenging situations a country can confront. Infectious diseases and other threats have increasing potential to spread rapidly within a country or around the world due to growing populations, concentration of animal populations and market intensification, human and animal movement, and global trade. This international GEMP Essentials guide is meant to support the advancement of key components of emergency management as countries continue efforts to work and prepare together. It sets out in a systematic way the elements required to achieve an appropriate level of preparedness and proposes an approach to animal health emergency management inclusive of all type of events, be they caused by natural phenomenon, including not infectious events, or by accidental or deliberate human action. The guide also includes the One Health approach.


Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans

Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans

Author: United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13:

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Comprehensive Preparedness Guide (CPG) 101 provides guidelines on developing emergency operations plans (EOP). It promotes a common understanding of the fundamentals of risk-informed planning and decision making to help planners examine a hazard or threat and produce integrated, coordinated, and synchronized plans. The goal of CPG 101 is to make the planning process routine across all phases of emergency management and for all homeland security mission areas. This Guide helps planners at all levels of government in their efforts to develop and maintain viable all-hazards, all-threats EOPs. Accomplished properly, planning provides a methodical way to engage the whole community in thinking through the life cycle of a potential crisis, determining required capabilities, and establishing a framework for roles and responsibilities. It shapes how a community envisions and shares a desired outcome, selects effective ways to achieve it, and communicates expected results. Each jurisdiction's plans must reflect what that community will do to address its specific risks with the unique resources it has or can obtain.


Preparation of Foot-and-mouth Disease Contingency Plans

Preparation of Foot-and-mouth Disease Contingency Plans

Author: W. A. Geering

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9789251048672

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Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most serious transboundary animal diseases. It is a highly contagious viral disease, and may have rapid and unanticipated national and international spread. Although not a very lethal disease for adult animals, it can cause crippling socio-economic consequences, through high production and trade losses. This manual provides information on the nature of FMD and the principles and strategic options for its prevention, control and elimination. Guidelines are provided for individual countries threatened by FMD to formulate their overall national policy on control and eradication of a possible incursion of the disease.