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Front Vet Sci. 2021 Jul 30;8:688078. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.688078. eCollection 2021.

Overview of Cattle Diseases Listed Under Category C, D or E in the Animal Health Law for Which Control Programmes Are in Place Within Europe.

Frontiers in veterinary science

Jaka Jakob Hodnik, Žaklin Acinger-Rogić, Mentor Alishani, Tiina Autio, Ana Balseiro, John Berezowski, Luís Pedro Carmo, Ilias Chaligiannis, Beate Conrady, Lina Costa, Iskra Cvetkovikj, Ivana Davidov, Marc Dispas, Igor Djadjovski, Elsa Leclerc Duarte, Céline Faverjon, Christine Fourichon, Jenny Frössling, Anton Gerilovych, Jörn Gethmann, Jacinto Gomes, David Graham, Maria Guelbenzu, George J Gunn, Madeleine K Henry, Petter Hopp, Hans Houe, Elena Irimia, Jožica Ježek, Ramon A Juste, Emmanouil Kalaitzakis, Jasmeet Kaler, Selcuk Kaplan, Polychronis Kostoulas, Kaspars Kovalenko, Nada Kneževič, Tanja Knific, Xhelil Koleci, Aurélien Madouasse, Alvydas Malakauskas, Rene Mandelik, Eleftherios Meletis, Madalina Mincu, Kerli Mõtus, Violeta Muñoz-Gómez, Mihaela Niculae, Jelena Nikitović, Matjaž Ocepek, Marie Tangen-Opsal, László Ózsvári, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Theofilos Papadopoulos, Sinikka Pelkonen, Miroslaw Pawel Polak, Nicola Pozzato, Eglé Rapaliuté, Stefaan Ribbens, João Niza-Ribeiro, Franz-Ferdinand Roch, Liza Rosenbaum Nielsen, Jose Luis Saez, Søren Saxmose Nielsen, Gerdien van Schaik, Ebba Schwan, Blagica Sekovska, Jože Starič, Sam Strain, Petr Šatran, Sabina Šerić-Haračić, Lena-Mari Tamminen, Hans-Hermann Thulke, Ivan Toplak, Erja Tuunainen, Sharon Verner, Štefan Vilček, Ramazan Yildiz, Inge M G A Santman-Berends

Affiliations

  1. Clinic for Reproduction and Large Animals - Section for Ruminants, Veterinary Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  2. Veterinary and Food Safety Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture, Zagreb, Croatia.
  3. Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary, University of Prishtina "Hasan Prishtina", Prishtina, Albania.
  4. Finnish Food Authority, Veterinary Bacteriology and Pathology Unit, Kuopio, Finland.
  5. Animal Health Department, University of León, León, Spain.
  6. Animal Health Department, Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-University of León, León, Spain.
  7. Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
  8. School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  9. Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  10. Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  11. Department of Agrarian and Veterinary Sciences, Agrarian School of Elvas, Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre, Portalegre, Portugal.
  12. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Skopje, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia.
  13. Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
  14. Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium.
  15. Departamento de Medicina Veterinária, Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development, Universidade de Évora, Évora, Portugal.
  16. Ausvet Europe, Lyon, France.
  17. INRAE, Oniris, BIOEPAR, Nantes, France.
  18. Department of Disease Control and Epidemiology, National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Uppsala, Sweden.
  19. Department of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Skara, Sweden.
  20. National Scientific Centre, Institute for Experimental and Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Kharkiv, Ukraine.
  21. Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Greifswald, Germany.
  22. Animal Health and Production Unit, National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinary Research, Oeiras, Portugal.
  23. Animal Health Ireland, Carrick on Shannon, Ireland.
  24. Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Veterinary and Animal Science, Northern Faculty, Scotland's Rural College, Inverness, United Kingdom.
  25. Section of Epidemiology, Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI), Oslo, Norway.
  26. Research and Development Institute for Bovine Balotesti, Balotesti, Romania.
  27. Department of Animal Health, NEIKER-Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance, Derio, Spain.
  28. Clinic of Farm Animals, Veterinary Faculty, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  29. School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  30. Department of Genetics, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Tekirdag, Turkey.
  31. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public and One (Integrated) Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Karditsa, Greece.
  32. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Latvia University of Lifesciences and Technologies, Jelgava, Latvia.
  33. Podravka Food Industry, Research and Development, Koprivnica, Croatia.
  34. Veterinary Faculty, Institute of Food Safety, Feed and Environment, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  35. Department of Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania.
  36. Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Veterinary Academy, Kaunas, Lithuania.
  37. Department of Epizootiology, Parasitology and Protection of One Health, University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy, Kosice, Slovakia.
  38. Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.
  39. Section of Epidemiology, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
  40. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
  41. Institute for Genetic Resources, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  42. Veterinary Faculty, National Veterinary Institute, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  43. Norwegian Food Safety Authority, Oslo, Norway.
  44. Department of Veterinary Forensics and Economics, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.
  45. Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  46. National Veterinary Research Institute, Pulawy, Poland.
  47. Laboratorio di Medicina Forense Veterinaria, Struttura Complessa Territoriale 1 - Verona e Vicenza, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Delle Venezie, Vicenza, Italy.
  48. Animal Health Care Flanders, Torhout, Belgium.
  49. Department of Population Studies, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
  50. Unit of Food Microbiology, Institute for Food Safety, Food Technology and Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
  51. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Madrid, Spain.
  52. Department of Population Health Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
  53. Royal GD, Deventer, Netherlands.
  54. Farm and Animal Health, Uppsala, Sweden.
  55. Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland, Dungannon, United Kingdom.
  56. State Veterinary Administration, Prague, Czechia.
  57. Animal Health Economics Department, Veterinary Faculty of the University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  58. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
  59. Department of Ecological Modelling, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany.
  60. Department of Virology, Veterinary Faculty, Institute of Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
  61. Animal Health ETT, Seinäjoki, Finland.
  62. Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Turkey.

PMID: 34395571 PMCID: PMC8361752 DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2021.688078

Abstract

The COST action "Standardising output-based surveillance to control non-regulated diseases of cattle in the European Union (SOUND control)," aims to harmonise the results of surveillance and control programmes (CPs) for non-EU regulated cattle diseases to facilitate safe trade and improve overall control of cattle infectious diseases. In this paper we aimed to provide an overview on the diversity of control for these diseases in Europe. A non-EU regulated cattle disease was defined as an infectious disease of cattle with no or limited control at EU level, which is not included in the European Union Animal health law Categories A or B under Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2002. A CP was defined as surveillance and/or intervention strategies designed to lower the incidence, prevalence, mortality or prove freedom from a specific disease in a region or country. Passive surveillance, and active surveillance of breeding bulls under Council Directive 88/407/EEC were not considered as CPs. A questionnaire was designed to obtain country-specific information about CPs for each disease. Animal health experts from 33 European countries completed the questionnaire. Overall, there are 23 diseases for which a CP exists in one or more of the countries studied. The diseases for which CPs exist in the highest number of countries are enzootic bovine leukosis, bluetongue, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis, bovine viral diarrhoea and anthrax (CPs reported by between 16 and 31 countries). Every participating country has on average, 6 CPs (min-max: 1-13) in place. Most programmes are implemented at a national level (86%) and are applied to both dairy and non-dairy cattle (75%). Approximately one-third of the CPs are voluntary, and the funding structure is divided between government and private resources. Countries that have eradicated diseases like enzootic bovine leukosis, bluetongue, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis and bovine viral diarrhoea have implemented CPs for other diseases to further improve the health status of cattle in their country. The control of non-EU regulated cattle diseases is very heterogenous in Europe. Therefore, the standardising of the outputs of these programmes to enable comparison represents a challenge.

Copyright © 2021 Hodnik, Acinger-Rogić, Alishani, Autio, Balseiro, Berezowski, Carmo, Chaligiannis, Conrady, Costa, Cvetkovikj, Davidov, Dispas, Djadjovski, Duarte, Faverjon, Fourichon, Frössling, Gerilovych, Gethmann, Gomes, Graham, Guelbenzu, Gunn, Henry, Hopp, Houe, Irimia, Ježek, Juste, Kalaitzakis, Kaler, Kaplan, Kostoulas, Kovalenko, Kneževič, Knific, Koleci, Madouasse, Malakauskas, Mandelik, Meletis, Mincu, Mõtus, Muñoz-Gómez, Niculae, Nikitović, Ocepek, Tangen-Opsal, Ózsvári, Papadopoulos, Papadopoulos, Pelkonen, Polak, Pozzato, Rapaliuté, Ribbens, Niza-Ribeiro, Roch, Rosenbaum Nielsen, Saez, Nielsen, van Schaik, Schwan, Sekovska, Starič, Strain, Šatran, Šerić-Haračić, Tamminen, Thulke, Toplak, Tuunainen, Verner, Vilček, Yildiz and Santman-Berends.

Keywords: Europe; SOUND control; cattle; control programmes; disease control; output-based standards

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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