AGRICULTURAL NEWS - These threats include zoonotic diseases that are able to spread from animals to humans.
The diseases highlighted in the statement are highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), sheep and goat plague, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), rabies, bovine tuberculosis (BTB), lumpy skin disease (LSD), African swine fever (ASF), and tilapia lake virus disease (TLVD).
The OIE’s statement said that since 2006, HPAI had spread to nearly 40% of the world’s countries.
Since the beginning of 2017, this spread had speeded up, with control efforts challenged by the continuously changing behaviour of the HPAI virus.
