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Contents Foreword ................................................................................................................ v INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS FOR PREVENTION ............................19 Acknowledgements ......................................................................................... vi REDUCING THE RISK RELATED TO THE REMAINING Abbreviations and acronyms .................................................................... vii STOCKS OF RINDERPEST VIRUS ................................................... 19 DESTRUCTION AND SEQUESTRATION ......................................................20 RINDERPEST HOLDING FACILITIES ...........................................................20 BACKGROUND .............................................................................................1 RINDERPEST: THE DISEASE ....................................................................3 CHAPTER 3 – DETECT ........................................................................21 WHAT IS UNIQUE ABOUT THE GLOBAL RINDERPEST DEFINITIONS OF SUSPECTED AND CONFIRMED ACTION PLAN? ...................................................................................................3 CASES OF RINDERPEST ........................................................................... 23 PURPOSE, SCOPE AND ASSUMPTIONS OF THE GRAP ..........4 NATIONAL ACTIONS FOR DETECTION .............................................. 24 STAGES OF THE GRAP ..................................................................................5 REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL ACTIONS FOR DETECTION ......... 24 FAO AND OIE RINDERPEST REFERENCE CENTRE/ CHAPTER 1 – PREPARE .....................................................................7 LABORATORY ACTIONS FOR DETECTION ...................................... 24 PLANNING ...........................................................................................................9 OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS FOR DETECTION ............. 24 NATIONAL ACTIONS FOR PLANNING ...........................................................9 REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL ACTIONS FOR PLANNING .....................12 INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS FOR PLANNING ...........................................12 CHAPTER 4 – RESPOND .................................................................27 EQUIPPING .......................................................................................................13 EARLY ACTIONS IN THE EVENT OF A SUSPECTED CASE .................................................................................... 29 TRAINING ...........................................................................................................14 NATIONAL EARLY ACTIONS .............................................................................29 NATIONAL ACTIONS FOR TRAINING ...........................................................14 REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL EARLY ACTIONS ..........................................29 REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL ACTIONS FOR TRAINING .......................15 FAO EARLY ACTIONS ............................................................................................29 INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS FOR TRAINING .............................................15 OIE EARLY ACTIONS .............................................................................................30 EXERCISING ......................................................................................................15 RINDERPEST SECRETARIAT EARLY ACTIONS .....................................30 NATIONAL, REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL AND FAO AND OIE RINDERPEST REFERENCE CENTRES/ INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS FOR EXERCISING .......................................16 LABORATORIES EARLY ACTIONS .................................................................30 ACTION FOR A CONFIRMED CASE OF RINDERPEST ............. 30 CHAPTER 2 – PREVENT ...................................................................17 NATIONAL ACTIONS FOR A CONFIRMED CASE ..................................30 REGIONAL/CONTINENTAL ACTIONS FOR A NATIONAL ACTIONS FOR PREVENTION ..........................................19 CONFIRMED CASE ................................................................................................31 REGIONAL ACTIONS FOR PREVENTION .........................................19 INTERNATIONAL ACTIONS FOR A CONFIRMED CASE ....................32 iii CHAPTER 5 – RECOVER ................................................................. 35 ANNEXES ....................................................................................................... 45 INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................37 ANNEX 1 ............................................................................................................47 PROOF OF FREEDOM ..................................................................................37 ANNEX 2..............................................................................................................57 RECOVERY OF RINDERPEST-FREE STATUS FOR ANNEX 3............................................................................................................. 70 A COUNTRY OR ZONE .........................................................................................37 RECOVERY OF GLOBAL FREEDOM ...........................................................38 References .........................................................................................................41 Glossary ............................................................................................................... 43 iv Foreword Rinderpest plagued livestock for centuries, spreading Energy Agency (IAEA) and other institutional partners, through trade and migration routes from Central Eurasia governments, regional organizations such as the to the Near East, Europe, Africa and Asia. As a result, it Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), caused the death of hundreds of millions of livestock and and communities worldwide. The eradication of rinderpest wild animals, and led to significant disruption and damage united countries through a common purpose. to agricultural supply chains throughout the world and In 2011, FAO and the OIE declared the world free to biodiversity. As devastating as it was, rinderpest was from rinderpest, making it the first animal disease to also a galvanizing force. It led to the establishment of be eradicated in the history of humankind. However, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in 1924, stores of rinderpest virus containing material remain a and it prompted the creation of veterinary services in threat. Recognizing the enduring risk, the organizations’ countries where such bodies had not existed previously. respective Members asked for the creation of a plan of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United action to address the re-emergence of the disease, should Nations (FAO)