This book tells the story of rinderpest and its eradication. The focus is on the international coordination that came together after the Second World War in the confident belief that, with vaccines available, the eradication of rinderpest was a practical possibility. In both Africa and South Asia, beginning in the...

This report provides an overview of the main activities on global priority transboundary animal diseases (TADs) since the last Global steering Committee in November and December 2020. It covers, by alphabetic order, African Swine Fever (ASF), Foot and Mouth disease (FMD), Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) and Rinderpest post eradication...

The second annual report of the Global Control of African swine fever a Global Framework for Progressive Control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs) initiative for 2020-2025 includes outline of the initiative; FAO and OIE activities to achieve the objectives of Global Initiative e.g. fostering public-private partnership in support of the...

This report provides an overview of the main activities on global priority transboundary animal diseases (TADs) since the last Global steering Committee in November and December 2020. It covers, by alphabetic order, African Swine Fever (ASF), Foot and Mouth disease (FMD), Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) and Rinderpest post eradication...

The 11th global steering committee meeting (GSC11) was held on 3–4 November and 17 December 2020. This report presents a summary of the events carried out under the GF-TADs umbrella since the GSC10 meeting, held in November 2018. It focuses on three main items: i) follow up of the recommendations...