17th update on African swine fever activities at FAO

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Between 26 and 30 Oct, FAO and OIE will organize a series of webinars on ASF with simultaneous interpretation in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Following the hyperlink, you’ll find the agenda and links to register.

The Sixteen Meeting of the Standing Group of Experts on African swine fever in Europe (SGE ASF16) will take place via Zoom on 23 November. It will focus on countries’ situation and early reaction and emergency control measures in case of ASF detection in wild boar and domestic pigs.

FAO launched an animation video for farmers on basic farm biosecurity “Be a Champion Farmer! – Biosecurity is key to stop African Swine Fever”. More language versions will be released in due time.

FAO published “Addressing African Swine Fever: Laboratory protocols and algorithms” in collaboration with the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP, formerly the Australian Animal Health Laboratories).

On 6-8 October, FAO conducted a workshop in Côte d'Ivoire to discuss the control of ASF in the Tchologo and Poro regions.
FAO project to Support for the sustainable management of pig farms and control of ASF outbreaks in Togo was approved, aiming at developing regulatory texts governing ASF control activities, carry out training and implementing urgent actions to revive the sector and secure the incomes of the stakeholders and communities dependent on the sector.

FAO will organize a workshop aimed at improving contingency plans against ASF with Latin Americas and Caribbean countries on 6 November.