CaribVET activities
CaribVET activities
CaribVET activities
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Recommendation of the surveillance and diagnostic group<br />
of the JOINT MEETING<br />
ANIMAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE AND PREPAREDNESS<br />
FOCUS ON AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) IN THE CARIBBEAN<br />
(Trinidad, April 2006)<br />
• Objective: recommendations for a regional surveillance programme.<br />
Note: There is an existing regional animal disease surveillance network<br />
(Caribvet). Network started 1998-1999 and includes all countries in<br />
Caribbean.<br />
– Early detection of notifiable Avian influenza (NAI)<br />
– Prove presence or absence of NAI,<br />
– Epidemiology of the disease.<br />
– Prevention of the establishment and spread of NAI.
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