Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December FMD Disease situation in Iraq 2015 Layth Mohammed Salih Abdulrasool Central Veterinary Laboratories /Veterinary Directorate/ Iraq-Baghdad

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December GAPS IDENTIFIED IN 2014 ROADMAP MEETING  Bad Security Status, and loss of veterinary services in areas under terrorist control.  Inefficient restriction of animals movement on borders.  Low level of cooperation with the Kurdish region in northern of Iraq.  Low level of cooperation with neighboring countries.  Inefficient cooperation with the veterinary private sector.  Inefficient awareness campaigns.  Inadequate live stock estimation Numbers.  Difficulties in shipping, confirming and matching of the isolates.  No application to compensation legislation.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December work update Two vaccination campaigns were conducted during 2014, The 1 st on covered bovine and buffalo that involved the vaccination of about animal with high potency (>6pd50) trivalent vaccine. The 2 nd vaccination campaign involved the vaccination of animals (bovine and buffalo) and animals (ovine and caprine).

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December Disease situation in 2014 Clinical disease submitted to the veterinary official sector Adult Cattle CalvesAdult buffalocalvesOvineLambs Laboratory confirmed Cases Total SamplesPositive SamplesNegative Samples

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December Challenges in 2014 Bad security situation and the control of the terrorist on several main cities in the north, west and east of Iraq that lead to losing the ability to provide official veterinary services and as a result stopping of the vaccination campaigns and break of the roles for the regulation of animal movements as well as the biosafety measures that were applied in the case of appearing of new disease foci, and the large wave of immigration of peoples from the risk areas and the areas that witness military operations, that aid in establish uncommon route of disease transmission, all these factors leads to the increase the infected zone.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December 2015

work update One vaccination campaigns was conducted in February-March 2015 till now, This vaccination Campaign targeted bovine and buffalo at the first priority and to a second level ovine and caprine.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December During September 2015 a new genotype that is novel to the region started to circulate, the genotype VII recorded firstly in the KSA, less than month later a very related strain was isolated from van province/ turkey a border city with Iran and still spread in Turkey but with lower rate. This genotype was found to be closely related with an isolates from the Indian continental in 2000 and 2004 which is novel to this region. The spread of the disease in the Turkish land closer to the Iraqi borders lead Iraq to announced an alarm for several reasons: 1- Novel strain that we expect our national vaccine can not cover it although we still await for the WRL report of vaccine matching 2- Delayed in the vaccination campaign so that the immune status of the Iraqi herd will start to drop. Challenges in 2015

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December Disease situation in 2015 (till November) Clinical disease submitted to the veterinary official sector Adult Cattle CalvesAdult buffalocalvesOvineLambs Laboratory confirmed Cases ( 18 th Nov.) Total SamplesPositive SamplesNegative Samples

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December Geographical Distribution of FMD outbreaks Province Baghdad Babil Wasit Dyala Diwanya 7 2 Karbala’a 2 52 Najaf 1289 Al-Muthana 00 Missan Thi-Qar 833 Kirkuk 162 Basrah 4155 Ninevah 442*N/A Salah Alden 67*N/A Anbar N/A N/A= Not Availa ble * = till June 2014

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December /12014/22015 Baghdad Babil Wasit Dyala Diwanya Karbala’a Najaf 6122 Al-Muthana Missan Thi-Qar Kirkuk Basrah 23N/A46 Ninevah N/A Salah Alden N/A Anbar N/A Sero surveillance of FMD Infection in cattle and buffalo by NSP Elisa

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December FMD Control plan : Goals and outcomes of controlling project  Control and Eradication of Foot & mouth Disease;  Establishment of minimum competencies to the delivery of national veterinary services.  Improve prophylactics measures against exotic infectious diseases.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December Disease control strategy plan FMD Control strategy in Iraq  The Control strategy of FMD disease in Iraq must be applied on two stages as Iraq consider to be endemic with the disease The first stage  It include the following activities:  Compulsory routine vaccination campaign to all large and small ruminants, twice yearly in whole country.  Restriction of live animal movement, and animal products.  increase awareness and communication about the importance of this stage and start to prepare the field veterinarian in both the public and private sectors for the next stage that will required more attention and efforts to keep, maintain and forward go on in the control of the disease.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December The second stage  Starts after the success control of clinical disease in one or more sector or zone in the country with the continuous using of mass vaccination strategy.  This stage required in addition to the activities in the first stage the following action:  Initiate a good, very active and quick communication network and preparing a hot lines for any suspected cases.  Preparing and training the veterinary authority at the free zones as well as the veterinary private sectors on contingency plans to contained any emergency case suspected with the disease.  legislation of compensation laws or regulation in order for the stamping out of the affected animals in the free zone as a strategy for controlling any new disease foci.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December criteria of identification of hot spot  Clinical Disease with typical clinical signs.  Conformation of suspected foci or new outbreaks by Laboratory investigation.  Sero monitoring to check for the animals that exposed to the clinical disease.  Evaluation of the vaccination campaigns to check for the performance of the vaccinators, performance and immune response of the vaccinated animals and looking for the gaps that prevent the proper action of the high quality vaccines used.  Routes for animal movement.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December Vaccine Specification A trivalent vaccine composed of the following strains: A/ Turk/2006/20 O/Turk/05/2009 Panasia2 Asia1/Pak/8/2008-sindh-08 ( Previously Shamir) Those strains are formulated in an adjuvant, double oil emulsion vaccine with potency ≥6PD50.

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December FMD NSP Ratio over years Province Province Nineveh 55.1% 41%19.7 % NA Wasit 25% 20%8.7 % 9.6% Salah Alden 42.5% 32%16.6 % NA Karbala’a 20% 31%0 % 42.3% Kirkuk 50.8% 10.6%22.9 % 51% Najaf 50% 55%37.5 % 61.1% Dyala 56.3% 50%46.4 % 17.6% Diwanya 42.8% 44%39.5 % 23.6% Anbar 26.9% 16%13.3 % NA Muthana 30% 25%20 % 3.4% Baghdad 31.6% 28%22.2 % 24.7% Missan 37.1% 29%32.7 % 10% Babil 41.4% 13%16.6 % 22.6% Thiqar 32.5% 11.5%22.2 % 19.7% Basrah 20% 29%44.4 % 23.1% Total 37.4% 29%24% 25.7%

Middle East FMD Roadmap Meeting Doha, Qatar 1-3 December Vaccination coverage Year SpeciesTotalVaccinatedLocation Oct.- Nov.2011 Cattle & Buffalo 2,837,650 1,935,510 (68.2%) 15 Provinces (96.77%) Dec Jan.2012 Sheep &Goats 9,197,220 7,062,003 (76.78%) 15 Provinces (94.16%) April-June 2012 Cattle & Buffalo 2,837,650 1,798,074 (63.36%) 15 Provinces (89.9%) Jan.2013 Cattle & Buffalo 2,837,650 1,842,385 (64.9%) 15 Provinces (92.1%) Jan.2013 Sheep & Goats 9,197,220 7,105,941 (77.2%) 15 Provinces (94.7%) May-July 2013 Sheep & Goats 9,197,220 6,962,684 (75.7%) 15 Provinces (92.8%) May-July 2013 Cattle & Buffalo 2,837,650 1,710,533 (60.27%) 15 Provinces (85.5%)

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