SUBGROUPS:   Animal Health

The activities of the Animal Health Subgroup were accelerated and built upon through the European Commission (EC) funded project EMIDA (Coordination of European Research on Emerging and Major Infectious Diseases of Livestock). EMIDA began in April 2008 and will end in December 2011 making way for a new ERA-NET coordinating European animal health and welfare research called ANIHWA set to begin in January 2012. EC funding for EMIDA enabled the group to map the European research landscape through the production and analysis of a number of databases on research projects, research publications, research patents and EC funded projects in the field of animal health. This analysis led to the identification of a number of research topics which were taken forward in two Common Calls each involving about 20 funding partners and their combined budget of 20 million Euros. Another output of EMIDA was the development of a Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) for which the first step was a review of foresight studies, the second step was a Delphi Study and Consensus Workshop and third was to bring all of this together for the SRA. The outputs of EMIDA are all available from the Resources section of this website.

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ECDC Risk Assessment on West Nile Virus Infection in the European Union

17/10/2011

ECDC has published a rapid risk assessment on the epidemiological situation of West Nile virus infection in the European Union. In the ongoing 2011 West Nile virus transmission season, cases have been reported from newly affected geographical areas. 86 human cases of West Nile fever have been reported in the EU, with 74 cases in [...]

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Influenza and other Emerging Zoonotic Diseases at the Human-Animal Interface

17/10/2011

Given the complexity of zoonotic disease emergence in an increasingly globalized world, effective strategies for reducing future threats must be identified. Lessons learned from past experiences controlling diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), and pandemic (H1N1) 2009, indicate that new paradigms are needed for early detection, prevention, and [...]

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MedVetNet Conference – One health, one medicine: sharing challenges for combating zoonoses

  • Location: Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
  • Date: 24/06/2013 - 25/06/2013

MedVetNet 2013 is for human and animal health researchers working in the field of food-borne zoonoses using the One Health – One Medicine approach. Much of the work done through this approach has been cross-disciplinary – including a variety of sectors – and its implications reach beyond the study & removal of zoonoses. The meeting [...]

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Does big mean bad? Looking at the science behind large-scale livestock production

  • Location: Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
  • Date: 23/05/2013 - 24/05/2013

Large–scale intensive livestock production is currently a hot topic in the UK. There’s a lot of confusion over the advantages or disadvantages of such units. This conference is about the science behind running large successful units. What do we know and what do we need to find out? The primary focus will be on systems [...]

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DISCONTOOLS Conference: Fighting animal diseases – identifying research priorities

  • Location: Hotel Silken Berlaymont, 11-19 Boulevard Charlemagne, Brussels, Belgium
  • Date: 14/11/2012 - 15/11/2012

DISCONTOOLS, the FP7 project that focuses on the prioritisation of research to hasten the delivery of new or better diagnosis, vaccines and pharmaceuticals to control animal diseases, will hold a conference on 15 November 2012 titled “Fighting animal diseases – identifying research priorities”. – FP7, Technology Platform & ERA-Net Philosophy – From ETPGAH Action Plan [...]

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