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Declaration of global freedom from rinderpest

Thirty-seventh Session of the FAO Conference, Rome 25 June-2 July 2011









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    Provisional Agenda of the International Meeting on Maintaining Global Freedom from Rinderpest
    Rome, Italy. 20-22 January 2016
    2016
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    FAO, with the support of the OIE, is holding an International Meeting (20 -22 January 2016, Rome) of countries that are still storing RVCM in their laboratories along with selected neighbouring countries. The overall purpose of the meeting is to commit countries to destroy their stocks of virus or arrange for its relocation to a FAO-OIE RHF.
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    Reinforcing global freedom from rinderpest - MTF/GLO/733/OIE 2019
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    In the 1980s, rinderpest killed millions of cattle and wild ruminants across Africa, causing devastating consequences for farmers and pastoralists in some of the world’s poorest rural areas. The eradication of rinderpest in 2011 led to considerable socioeconomic effects –the protection of tens of millions of livestock, which contribute to safeguarding biodiversity and the resilience of ecological systems, as well as an estimated USD 920 million in annual economic benefits for Africa alone. However, dozens of laboratories in at least 36 countries still hold Rinderpest Virus-Containing Material (RVCM), posing a serious threat of inadvertent or malicious release. To help maintain global freedom from rinderpest, this project aimed to minimize the number of laboratories holding RVCM and increase the capacity of countries to rapidly respond to, and recover from the re-emergence of the disease.

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