Published Date: 2017-06-08 10:08:20
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Foot & mouth disease - Israel (04): (HA) bovine, OIE, st O
Archive Number: 20170608.5090630
FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE - ISRAEL (04): (HAIFA) BOVINE, OIE, SEROTYPE O
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Date: Tue 6 Jun 2017
Source: OIE, WAHID (World Animal Health Information Database), weekly disease information 2017; 30(23) [edited]
http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Reviewreport/Review?page_refer=MapFullEventReport&reportid=23977
Information received on 6 Jun 2017 from Dr Nadav Galon, Director, Veterinary Services and Animal Health, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Bet Dagan, Israel
Summary
Report type: immediate notification
Date of start of the event: 29 May 2017
Date of confirmation of the event: 5 Jun 2017
Reason for notification: reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence: March 2017
Manifestation of disease: clinical disease
Causal agent: Foot and mouth disease virus
Serotype: O
Nature of diagnosis: clinical, laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains a defined zone within the country.
New outbreaks (1)
Total outbreaks: 1
Outbreak 1 (FMDV 0): Ein Saala, Hadera, Haifa
Date of start of the outbreak: 29 May 2017
Outbreaks status: continuing (or date resolved not provided)
Epidemiological unit: village
Total animals affected:
Species / Susceptible / Cases / Deaths / Killed and disposed of / Slaughtered
Cattle / 127/ 8 / 0 / 0 / 0
Affected population: free-ranging beef herd. Ulcers on the tongue. All the affected animals but one are pregnant heifers or 1st calf heifers. The herd was vaccinated 6 months ago. The only adult cow showing clinical signs is a cow that ran away last year and was not vaccinated (the owner claims). No mortality was noticed. Old lesions (healed and covered with new epithelium) and new lesions (ruptured vesicles, no epithelium flaps), can be seen in the herd.
Outbreak statistics [rates apparent, expressed as percentages]:
Species / morbidity rate / mortality rate / case fatality rate / proportion susceptible animals lost*
Cattle / 6.30 / 0 / 0 / 0
*Removed from the susceptible population
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), screening, quarantine, zoning, no treatment of affected animals;
Measures to be applied: no other measures
Diagnostic test results
Laboratory name and type: Kimron Veterinary Institute [KVI], FMD laboratory (national laboratory)
Species / Test / Test date / Result
Cattle / real-time PCR / 21 Nov 2015 / positive
Future reporting
The event is continuing. Weekly follow-up reports will be submitted.
[The location of this outbreak can be seen on the interactive map included in the OIE report at the source URL above.]
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[In February 2017 Israel reported an outbreak of FMDV-O in the district of HaDarom (Southern). See further details of this February 2017 event at http://www.oie.int/wahis_2/public/wahid.php/Reviewreport/Review/viewsummary?reportid=22775. This event was reported as resolved on 7 Mar 2017. - Mod.CRD
Ein Saala (Ayn-al-Sahla), where the current FMD outbreak reportedly started in late May 2017, affecting cattle, is situated just 1.2 km (0.75 mi) from the demarcation line between Israeli and Palestinian (West Bank) territories, where several FMDV outbreaks were reported earlier in May, affecting sheep and cattle (see 20170516.5039513; note that serotyping was pending). In the meantime, those earlier isolates have been serotyped O, and genotyped EA-3, similar to earlier outbreaks in the Gaza Strip (Palestinian Authority) and one Israeli dairy cattle farm adjacent to the Gaza Strip. This East-African strain is known to be widely spread in Egypt. Its spread from Egypt to the Gaza Strip, then eastwards to the West Bank, is notable. It will be interesting to obtain genotyping results of the current case in Ayn-al Sahla (map at http://tinyurl.com/yahev4ro).
The initial genotyping of the virus strains in the Gaza Strip and southwest Israel, as FMDV 'O EA-3' was carried out by the Kimron Veterinary Institute at Beit-Dagan; this has later been confirmed by the WRL FMD (Pirbright), where the strains from the West Bank (Yatta) have been found to be of the same East-African/Egyptian genotype.
FMDV serotype A of an Asian topotype has been recently identified in Israeli cattle on the Lebanese border, and a secondary outbreak of the same strain, recorded on the Golan Heights, has been reported to the OIE. Past experience in Israel showed that in most cases, serotype O strains were more likely to spread than serotype A strains, clinically affecting both large and small ruminants, while serotype A strains seemed more likely to affect cattle. - Mod.AS
A HealthMap/ProMED-mail map can be accessed at: http://healthmap.org/promed/p/6244.]
