Published Date: 2019-08-07 20:11:32
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Foot & mouth disease - Israel (04): (HA) cattle, st O, spread, OIE
Archive Number: 20190807.6610873
FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE - ISRAEL (04): (HAIFA) CATTLE, SEROTYPE O, SPREAD, OIE
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Date: Wed 7 Aug 2019
Source: OIE, WAHID [edited]
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Reviewreport/Review?page_refer=MapFullEventReport&reportid=31298
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Foot & mouth disease - Israel
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Information received on 7 Aug 2019 from Dr. Tamir Goshen, Acting Director, Veterinary Services and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Beit Dagan, Israel
Report type: Immediate notification
Date of start of the event: 1 Aug 2019
Date of confirmation of the event: 4 Aug 2019
Report date: 7 Aug 2019
Date submitted to OIE: 7 Aug 2019
Reason for notification: Recurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence: 27 May 2019
Manifestation of disease: Clinical disease
Causal agent: Foot and mouth disease virus
Serotype: O [Panasia-2]
Nature of diagnosis: Clinical, laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains to a defined zone within the country.
New outbreaks (1)
Summary of outbreaks
Total outbreaks: 1
Outbreak location: En Ayyala, Hadera, Haifa
Date of start of the outbreak: 1 Aug 2019
Outbreak status: Continuing (or date resolved not provided)
Epidemiological unit: Farm
Total animals affected
Species / Susceptible / Cases / Deaths / Killed and disposed of / Slaughtered
Cattle / 700 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0
Affected population: In the farm, there are 180 milking cows, 140 heifers, and 380 beef cattle. The affected animals are milking animals born in 2016.
Outbreak statistics [rates apparent, in percentages]
Species / Morbidity rate / Mortality rate / Case fatality rate / Proportion susceptible animals lost*
Cattle / 0.29 / 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
*Removed from the susceptible population through death, destruction and/or slaughter
Epidemiology
Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection: Unknown or inconclusive
Control measures
Measures applied: Movement control inside the country; vaccination in response to the outbreak(s); surveillance outside containment and/or protection zone; surveillance within containment and/or protection zone; zoning; ante and post-mortem inspections; no treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied: No other measures
Diagnostic test results:
Laboratory name and type / Species / Test / Test date / Result
Kimron Veterinary Institute, FMD Laboratory (National laboratory) / Cattle / nucleotide sequencing / 5 Aug 2019 / Positive
Kimron Veterinary Institute, FMD Laboratory (National laboratory) / Cattle / real-time PCR / 5 Aug 2019 / Positive
The event is continuing. Weekly follow-up reports will be submitted.
[The location of the outbreak can be seen on the interactive map at the source URL above.]
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[Though reported as a "recurrence" of FMD, most likely this event is not a new introduction but presents a continuation of the event that had started in northern Israel on 5 Sep 2018, caused by FMD virus O/ME-SA/PanAsia-2(QOM-15), which eventually spread westwards. Ein Ayala (map at https://tinyurl.com/y4a9bp9l) has most likely become outbreak No. 23 in the continuing event; it is 10 km [6.2 mi] southwest of the site of outbreak No. 22 (Daliyat-El-Carmel-Isfia). The latter was located 18 km [11.2 mi] southwest to outbreak No. 21, in Tamra.
The ability to detect 2 solitary clinical cases of FMD within a group of 600 apparently healthy cattle is remarkable. It may be attributed to the vigilance of the owners, combined with the operation of a computerized milking apparatus, which reports early changes in the milk production of individual animals. Last but not least, early detection and diagnosis are related to the prevailing system of clinical veterinary services by a countrywide insurance farmers' cooperative, which warrants a visit of the practitioner to every dairy farm twice weekly; additional calls on emergency, such as suspicion of disease, are free of charge. This allows early involvement of the State Veterinary Services, including the diagnostic FMD laboratory at the Kimron Veterinary Institute, Beit-Dagan.
Information on the vaccination history of the herd will be useful. According to the prevailing FMD vaccination policy in Israel, the entire farm's cattle population, above the age of 3 months, should have been vaccinated 7-9 months ago. Checking whether there is currently sub-clinical infection in the rest of the farm's cattle population (e.g. by PCR-ing individual milk samples) may provide useful information, e.g. the efficacy of the applied vaccine.
To view the location of the 3 mentioned recent outbreaks in NW Israel, please go to OIE's interactive FMD map at https://tinyurl.com/y5x4do65; click on Israel to center, and repeatedly zoom in (to the scale 1:6 778 233). The new outbreak (red) is southwest of the previous 2 (blue) outbreaks. The route of spread has yet to be investigated. - Mod.AS
HealthMap/ProMED map available at:
Haifa District, Israel: http://healthmap.org/promed/p/35084]
