Maintaining Global Freedom from Rinderpest

Maintaining Global Freedom from Rinderpest

Summary Report of the Meeting

Year of publication 2016

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 17 p.

Publisher FAO ;

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Category Meeting document

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Synopsis (short abstract) The official Declarations of Global Freedom from Rinderpest were made during meetings at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and at the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in 2011. At these historic celebrations, the Member States of each organisation directed the two organizations to work jointly in managing all aspects of rinderpest in the post-eradication period and they recommended that every country should destroy their stocks of rinderpest virus-contain ing material (RVCM) or sequester them in a secure facility for safe keeping. The African Union (AU) has already shown its support for this process by recommending that all Member States should destroy any remaining RVCM or relocate it to a secure holding facility at the AU Pan African Veterinary Vaccine Centre (Recommendation of the 8th Conference of Ministers responsible for animal resources in Africa, May 2010; Endorsed by the African Union Heads of State and Government, (AU Decision: EX.CL/De c. 610 (XVIII), January 2011).

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