Central administration of preventive medicine –GOVS-Egypt (c) Rehab Abdelkader Sayed Elbassal / EuFMD (eufmd@fao.org)

1. An outbreak of FMD in
Egypt in 2012
REHAB ABDELKADER SAYED ELBASSAL
CENTRAL ADMINISTRATION OF PREVENTIVE
MEDICINE –GOVS-EGYPT

2. Who should be interested
(stakeholders)
 Veterinary services authorities
 Producers

3. Significant of what we found
 We are endemic now by A,O,SAT2 FMD strains and
we need to move forward in strong steps to control
the disease and reduce its impact in our animal
population.
 modified procedures have been put in place in
response to these tree endemic serotypes and
retained to improve FMD surveillance and response
in the long -term