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To better communicate our overarching purpose – improving
#animalhealth
🐷🐮🐶🐠 worldwide – we're modernising our look and style. Our mission remains the same, but we’re improving the way we communicate it.
What do you think about the new look?
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#AvianInfluenza
now threatens the Antarctic region. But what does it mean and where do we go from here? Keith Hamilton, Head of the Preparedness and Resilience Department breaks it down for us.
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A volcano erupts in the
#Philippines
but what happens to the animals & the people who rely on them? In this series of short documentaries where we attempt to understand the impact emergencies can have on
#animalhealth
, we took a look at the Philippines. 👉
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Today is
#WorldAnimalDay
!
This year’s theme – 🌏 ‘a shared planet’ 🌏 – reminds us that animal and human health are interdependent and bound to the health of
#ecosystems
🌿.
That’s why we promote the
#OneHealth
approach throughout our work.
#AnimalHealth
is
#EveryonesHealth
.
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Dog population management is essential to achieve an end to dog-mediated
#rabies
. Of the 700 million dogs worldwide, 75% are roaming freely. DPM helps in obtaining a high vaccination coverage in the dog population — one of the root causes for transmission of rabies to humans.
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>20% of global animal production losses are linked to animal diseases.
Vet Services help maximise livestock 🐄 and aquaculture🐟 production efficiency while respecting
#animalwelfare
, by ensuring animals are healthy and kept under sanitary & hygienic conditions.
#WorldFoodDay
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Some wild animal species, such as bats 🦇, bear the brunt of human fear and stigmatism. However, eliminating a single species like bats, due to anger or fear of diseases, can tip an ecosystem out of balance, leading to catastrophic consequences for everyone.
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Today at
#WOAHGS
, several Members obtained official recognition of their
#AnimalHealth
status for their entire territory or specific zones in 2022 and one received our endorsement of their control programme for dog-mediated rabies.
Learn more:
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Summer is here but so is the potential for you to be carrying
#AfricanSwineFever
. A thread on everything you should know and what you can do to curb the spread while travelling this season (1/7) 👇.
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How do you prepare animals in an area commonly prone to hurricanes and volcanoes? In our latest documentary, we spoke to the Caribbeans to understand how animal health is impacted by emergencies on the islands, and the planning that goes into securing lives and livelihoods.
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Through better detection, identification & preparedness for future outbreaks of zoonotic
#wildlife
diseases we can build a healthier world for all.
Learn how our EBO-SURSY Project is helping to strengthen early detection systems in West & Central Africa:
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Today is World
#WildlifeConservationDay
!
#Wildlife
is essential to maintaining…
✅ functioning, vibrant ecosystems
✅ food chains, pest control, and pollination
✅ the health of other animals and humans!
#OneHealth
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What's different about this year's General Session?
We're launching an Animal Health Forum on
#AvianInfluenza
. Our Delegates, renowned experts & partners will get a unique chance to discuss how to best tackle the disease, which has tremendously impacted countries in recent years
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On the next stop in our series of short documentaries to understand the impact that emergencies can have on animal health, we landed in the
#Philippines
🇵🇭. Here, we learnt how volcanic eruptions 🌋 can have wide-ranging impacts, from
#animalhealth
and welfare to food security.
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Why is antimicrobial resistance a
#OneHealth
challenge? Because no single organisation can tackle it alone. This multifaceted challenge can only be met through a One Health approach, which considers animal, human, plant and environmental health as interconnected & interdependent.
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Attention travellers, here's items you may have forgotten off of your travel checklist this holiday season. Although
#AfricanSwineFever
is of no risk to human health, travellers carrying infected pork products or in contact with infected pigs could become carriers of the disease.
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How can we solve the major animal health challenges the world faces today?
Collaboration is key. From May 21 to 25, approx. 600 country representatives and animal health stakeholders will gather in Paris for our 90th General Session.
#WOAHGS
Learn more👇
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Taking food souvenirs back home while on vacation, although tempting, may not always be a safe idea. For Alex, it didn't quite work out. Here's why.
Learn more about African swine fever here:
#AfricanSwineFever
#ASF
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This
#WorldRabiesDay
, we're shining the spotlight on Namibia 🇳🇦. In Namibia’s NCA, veterinarians and their teams are using innovative methods and relentless dedication to significantly reduce human rabies cases, marking a remarkable achievement in the ongoing fight rabies.
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Today is International
#EpidemicPreparednessDay
!
To effectively prevent and respond to epidemics, we need resilient and robust health systems. Collaboration through the
#OneHealth
approach is key – isolated systems will not suffice.
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It’s
#WorldSustainabilityDay
!🌿
Investing in Vet Services & disease surveillance supports
#sustainable
animal production🐑🐄 🐖🐓🐐🐟🦐.
#AnimalHealth
is intrinsic to the
#sustainability
of ecological systems as well. Today and everyday, we’re working to protect it.
#OneHealth
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The losses from animal disease are estimated to be huge but we know little about them. Armed with metrics, health authorities could prevent such losses. This is why the Animal Health Economics Core Group is promoting animal health economics to support decision making in Ethiopia.
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📌 New aquatic animal health situation report – Q3 2023:
#crustaceans
Five new outbreaks were reported by three countries for three diseases in crustaceans during Q3 of 2023.
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For
#OneHealth
day, meet the Peruvian Pelican, a valuable wild bird species threatened by
#avianinfluenza
. The disease must be tackled using a One Health approach because of its potential far-reaching impact on global health, livelihoods, food security, and biodiversity.
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How good are you at Alerte? Alerte is an educational card game, developed as part of our EBO-SURSY project, to help players better understand their role in the disease surveillance chain and empower them to recognise and report
#animaldiseases
or unusual animal occurrences.
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We're building a better future with better
#animalhealth
. As we refresh our brand identity, we’re enhancing our commitment of working across borders to improve the health of animals & our future.
Because animal health is our health. It’s
#EveryonesHealth
.
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📢 It's here! In recognition of the multitude of risks that a changing
#climate
presents on the health of all life on earth, we've released a guide to support countries to strengthen their
#OneHealth
actions, with the Quadripartite,
@FAO
,
@UNEP
and
@WHO
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The EBO-SURSY radio programme raising awareness on
#OneHealth
, zoonosis, & wildlife diseases has improved communities’ ability to prevent disease outbreaks. And they just held their first nation-wide radio competition. Read about the programme’s success:
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It is critical to continue the monitoring and surveillance of HPAI in wildlife populations. Taking biosafety measures to reduce the risk of human-mediated spread of HPAI to new areas, and to reduce the risk of human infection is essential to curtail the disease's spread.
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#Wildlife
health is deeply entwined with the health of the environment🌿. Protecting wild animal health supports
#biodiversity
and builds a more
#sustainable
future.
Learn about our actions to safeguard wildlife health here👉
#WorldSustainabilityDay
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We’re working with
@CRFprojects
in the Democratic Republic of Congo (
#DRC
🇨🇩) to raise awareness via radio about 🦠 zoonoses like Ebola 🦠.
The programme has been a major success, with surveys showing target population knowledge on zoonoses grew by 45%.
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2010.. 2019.. 2021. Hurricanes & volcanoes are a common sight in the Caribbean. Animals are often a victim of such disasters. In our latest sojourn, we document how the Caribbean prepares for emergencies and their impact on animal health. Watch it here:
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In its first thematic study, the WOAH Observatory assessed the use of zoning for
#AvianInfluenza
, African swine fever, and foot and mouth disease and observed that most members who had implemented zoning found it had a positive impact.
#ASF
#FMD
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#Emergencies
can have cascading effects on our interdependent ecosystems, affecting animal & human health, food systems, livelihoods & economies.
We went to Lebanon 🇱🇧 to document the intersectional impact of emergencies & the need to prepare for them👇
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Our experts have predicted that
#AvianInfluenza
's negative impact on Antarctic wild birds and mammal populations could be immense due to their likely susceptibility to mortality from the virus, and their occurrence in dense animal colonies, facilitating virus transmission.
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What is the role of Veterinary Services during acts of agro-crime and agro-terrorism? Amer Khusheish of Lebanon's Intelligence Department explains👇
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Livestock farmers play a key role in protecting
#foodsecurity
.
#DYK
? More than 70% additional animal protein will be needed to feed the world by 2050. On this
#WorldFoodDay
we're reminding livestock farmers 🐮 🐷 🐥 that
#VaccinesWork
💉 to protect animal health.
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Bringing together animal disease & horse sport experts, we developed tools with the International Horse Sports Confederation to facilitate the international movements of horses so they can reach their competitions on time.
Learn more👇
#WOAHGS
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It's
#WorldZoonosesDay
!
#DYK
? 60% of pathogens that cause human diseases come from animals. We're working with
#OneHealth
partners to save millions of lives & trillions of dollars by coordinating pandemic prevention efforts, rather than fighting
#zoonoses
after they’ve spread.
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📢 Now available! New guidelines for disease surveillance to better protect wildlife and public health.
With over 60% of human pathogens being zoonotic—capable of transmitting from animals to humans—comprehensive wildlife disease surveillance is essential. While domestic animal
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What are the challenges that impede the global control of
#avianinfluenza
?
From surveillance to vaccination, we'll be discussing strategies with leading experts and stakeholders to decide how to best tackle the disease at the Animal Health Forum👇
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This One Health day, we are talking about
#bee
health. How can bees benefit from
#OneHealth
? A collaborative, whole of society, whole of government approach is necessary to understand, anticipate and address risks to global health. Case in point: bees 🐝 >>
#OneHealthDay
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We headed over to the Caribbean to document how volcanic eruptions and powerful hurricanes can impact animal health. Emergencies of such scale call for a multi-sectoral and whole-of-society approach where different stakeholders work together to prepare for and mitigate impact.
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Andrea Lavarello-Schettini (
@andrealavsch
) and Jean-Luc Angot (
@angotj
) spoke about WOAH, faxes and cows in this WOAH anniversary-special chat. Tune into the full exchange:
#WOAH100
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As society becomes increasingly aware of the challenges posed by climate change, we need to collectively build sustainable animal production systems that respect both the environment, and animal health and welfare. Animal Health is everyone's health.
#OneHealth
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Today, our team of veterinary epidemiologists 👩🔬 👨🔬 will be answering your questions on
#AvianInfluenza
in cats🐈.
Tweet your questions to us with
#AskaWOAHexpert
, and we will get back to you.
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#AnimalWelfare
should be considered through the lens of more sustainable and responsible human interactions with animals. However, it cannot be tackled in isolation from a broader context, where trade-offs must be made to strike a balance between societal needs and constraints.
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The
#AfricanSwineFever
virus 🦠 is very resistant in nature. Although human health is not threatened by the virus, it is possible to carry it on clothes, shoes, equipments and vehicles if you've visited an infected area or if you bring pork 🥓 products with you.
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Travellers, here's items you may have missed off of your travel checklist this festive season. Although
#AfricanSwineFever
is of no risk to human health, travellers carrying infected pork products or in contact with infected pigs could become carriers of the disease. 🐷
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📢Wildlife situation report for September 2023:
- 504 new outbreaks reported in Africa, the Americas, Asia & Europe
- Most outbreaks linked to ASF &
#AvianInfluenza
- Avian influenza reported in 7 unusual hosts
6 species have critical conservation status
🧾
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The common
#carp
is one of the most widely cultured freshwater fish. In 2019, global production included 4.5 million tons, of which 97% originated from aquaculture. Introduction of the Carp edema virus can cause significant mortality and can also impact wild carp populations.
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For our latest, we continued our journey to the
#Caribbean
to understand how
#animal
health is impacted by hurricanes and volcanoes, emergencies common to the islands. Along the way we talked to residents, both humans and animals.
#EmergencyPreparedness
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#Mozambique
has reported a zone's first occurence of 🦠foot and mouth disease🦠 (FMD) in domestic cattle🐄 via
#WAHIS
.
The outbreak resulted from the illegal movement of animals. 42 cows tested positive, while 5340 remain susceptible.
Full report →
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It’s time to get your cameras going 📸! Sign up for our anniversary-special photo competition on the link below.
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As there is no specific treatment or vaccine against the
#Nipah
virus 🦠, eradication relies on the early detection and destruction of infected and at-risk animals. Veterinarians and animal keepers should maintain vigilance, and suspected or confirmed cases must be reported.
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#Wildlife
health is deeply entwined with the health of the environment🌿. Protecting wild animal health supports
#biodiversity
and ensures a more
#sustainable
future.
Learn about our actions to safeguard wildlife health here 👉
#COP27
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#DYK
? Almost 5 million human deaths were linked to
#AntimicrobialResistance
in 2019.
We're working across sectors and borders to
#StopAMR
, for
#EveryonesHealth
.
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Responding to looming epidemics requires cross-sectoral collaboration through the
#OneHealth
approach, incl. public–private partnerships. Isolated responses to seemingly separate issues are no longer enough – we must work together.
#EpidemicPreparednessDay
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#AfricanSwineFever
doesn't affect humans, but that doesn't mean humans aren't able to carry it. The virus is highly resistant in the environment and can survive on clothes, boots, wheels, and other materials, including in various pork products, such as ham, sausages or bacon. 🐖
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Our radio awareness campaign in the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 improved target population knowledge of zoonoses by 45%!
Using
#OneHealth
, local communities are now better equipped to fight zoonoses affecting the region, such as
#Ebola
.
Watch now 👉
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Our advice to help pig farmers and save pigs 🐖? While you're travelling, don't visit farms unless strictly necessary or hunt wild pigs if you are in regular contact with domestic pigs. Avoid becoming a carrier of
#AfricanSwineFever
this season.
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Global
#AfricanSwineFever
highlights for 19/02 to 10/03/24:
- 2 countries in Europe reported new outbreaks.
- Albania reported
#ASF
for the first time.
- Asia, Africa, Americas, and Oceania reported no outbreaks.
- 408 domestic pigs were lost due to ASF.
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Wild animals like bats🦇 are often vilified as the source of dangerous pathogens that harm global health. However, bats are champions of
#biodiversity
, & play a vital role as seed dispersers & pollinators of fruit trees & plants indispensable to humans.
#WildlifeConservationDay
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In this episode of
#DecryptingDiseases
, the Deputy Head of the Science Department at WOAH breaks down
#AfricanSwineFever
🐖.
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Our radio awareness campaign in the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 improved target population knowledge of zoonoses by 45%!
Using
#OneHealth
, local communities are now better equipped to fight zoonoses affecting the region, such as
#Ebola
.
Watch now 👉
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#AvianInfluenza
is a highly contagious viral disease that affects domestic & wild birds. At times, it can also affect mammal species, including humans. The disease also has devastating effects on the poultry industry, workers' livelihoods, food security & international trade.
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📢
#AvianInfluenza
report: 25/08 - 14/09
📌 4 new outbreaks in poultry in South Africa
📌 29 outbreaks in non-poultry birds & mammals
📌 About 42k poultry birds died/culled
# of outbreaks in animals is expected to have passed the peak & decline.
👉
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📌 ASF situation report for 🗓️ 22/09 - 12/10:
🐷 No new outbreaks were reported in Africa, Americas, Europe, and Oceania
🐷 Thailand reported its 1st ever ASF outbreak in a zone
🐷 Europe reported continuing outbreaks in 7 countries
🐷 4,754 swine were lost as a result of ASF
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In low-resource settings,
#animalhealth
lab equipment 🔬🧫🧪 is often ‘consumable’. We must shift strategies towards
#sustainability
to maintain strengthened infrastructure & capabilities to support the overall safety, quality & security of lab activities.
#WorldSustainabilityDay
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Many animal diseases of viral origin continue to have major consequences on
#animalhealth
, livelihoods,
#foodsecurity
and even public health in some cases.
Learn how veterinary vaccines are stopping the spread of several of these diseases👇
#WOAHGS
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For our final documentary, where we record the impact of emergencies on animal health, we headed over to the
#Caribbean
. From hurricanes to volcanic eruptions, discover how emergencies affect this part of the world & how the region prepares itself against such unforeseen events.
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Every November, we get together to celebrate World
#AMR
Awareness Week. This year's theme, preventing
#AntimicrobialResistance
together, aims to encourage stakeholders and the general public to recognise that everyone can help tackle antimicrobial resistance. Stay tuned!
#WAAW
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Our latest report shows that global antimicrobial use in animals is on a rise, after several consecutive years of significant decrease. Antimicrobials are critical medicines whose effectiveness must be preserved. Resistance to these medicines endangers everyone’s health.
#AMR
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The excessive & irresponsible use of
#antimicrobials
💊 in one sector impacts other sectors. What would happen if entire livestock herds were decimated due to illnesses that can no longer be cured because of microbes that have grown resistant?
#WAAW
#AntimicrobialResistance
#AMR
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It's the International Day of Disaster Risk Reduction!
#DYK
? Veterinary Services play a key role in emergency management. As extreme events & hazards increase in frequency & complexity, it’s crucial that the
#animalhealth
sector maintains effective preparedness measures.
#DRRDay
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En 1924, fuimos creados para responder a un brote de peste bovina que se extendió por todos los continentes, asolando el ganado y causando pérdidas económicas devastadoras.
Desde entonces, nos hemos mantenido a la vanguardia en la lucha contra las enfermedades animales 🦠.
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