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FAO/OIE World Reference Laboratory for FMD, Pirbright, UK

Report for July to September 2002
Country	No.of samples	FMD virus serotypes							SVD virus¹	NVD²
Country	No.of samples	O	A	C	SAT1	SAT2	SAT3	ASIA1	(a)	(b)
Iraq	44	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	34
Israel (Pal. Aut. Ter.)	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Lebanon	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Pakistan	173	4	3	0	0	0	0	2	0	9
Saudi Arabia	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	35
United Kingdom	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
TOTAL	103	6	13	0	0	0	0	2	0	83
¹ Swine vesicular disease virus. ² No foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease or vesicular stomatitis virus detected. ³ One sample from Pakistan contained a mixture of FMD disease virus types O and Asia 1. Pal. Aut. Ter.: Palestinian Autonomous Territories Ten out of 19 positive samples tested as original suspension were typed by ELISA (53 percent) and the remainder were typed following cell culture passage.

Report for October to November 2002
Country	No. of samples	FMD virus serotypes							SVD virus¹	NVD²
Country	No. of samples	O	A	C	SAT1	SAT2	SAT3	ASIA1	(A)	(B)
Burkina Faso	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Iran (Islamic Rep. of)	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iraq	10	0	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Kenya	7	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
Myanmar	10	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Senegal	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	12
Sudan	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Syrian Arab Republic	11	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Turkey	10	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Uganda	6	3	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0
United Kingdom	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Zimbabwe	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	79	28	16	0	1	7	0	1	0	26
¹ Swine vesicular disease virus. ² No foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease or vesicular stomatitis virus detected.

FAO/OIE World Reference Laboratory for Rinderpest (RP) and peste des petits ruminants (PPR), Pirbright, UK
Country	Species	Disease	Diagnosis technque	Result
Iraq	Sheep	PPR	RT-PCR	Positive
Iran (Islamic Rep. of)	Tissue culture fluid	PPR	RT-PCR	Negative
Iraq	Sheep and goats	PPR	RT-PCR	Negative
Kenya	Cattle and game	RP	RT-PCR, C-ELISA	Negative
South Africa	Oryx	PPR	RT-PCR	Negative
Yemen	Bovine	RP	RT-PCR	Negative