App. 23 FMD database - FAO

(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey)

Objectives of the database:

• storage, analysis and visualization of animal demographic data and FMD vaccination and surveillance data

• Standardisation and improvement of national surveillance and reporting

• Improve understanding of regional FMD epidemiology and control

Database for FMD vaccination,

surveillance and risk

Input data

• Based on polygon data (national, province, district

level):

- animal demographic data

- vaccination

- serosurveillance

• Based on point data (villages):

- serosurveillance

Database outputs

• outputs include:

– analysis of vaccination and surveillance data

– generation of reports

– generation of GIS data

– animal populations (at risk)

• Customer defined on national or regional level

Output formats: •tables, queries

•charts, diagrams

•standardised reports

IT solution

• based on a combined FTP server and MS Access

• advantages:

– works with slower Internet connections

– data are kept in the countries

Developed by Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Germany and

EuFMD/FAO

first stage: end 2008

Animal demographic

data(population densities)

Vaccination maps

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Surveillance maps

0 %

> 0 - 20%

> 20 - 40 %

> 40 - 60 %

> 60 %

not sampled

Location of villages/ epi units

Buffer zone Risk zone 1

2

3

Turkey

All villages

Villages sampled

Restiction zones and villages/ epi units

outlook

can be extended to wider region, once functional