CBPP Abattoir surveillance training (Kenya) 2026
Contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia (CBPP) or lung sickness in cattle, caused by Mycoplasma mycoides subspecies mycoides (Mmm) is truly an African disease, long eradicated from the rest of the world, with few exceptions. The disease represents a considerable burden for cattle owners in many parts of Africa (EMPRES-AH, FAO, 2013), from Senegal and the Gambia in the west through Somalia in the east, and as far south as Namibia and Tanzania.
In October 2021, the 10th Regional Steering Committee (RSC) for Africa of the Global Framework for the progressive control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (GF-TADs for Africa) endorsed the 2021 – 2025 Strategic Plan, which targets five TADs, i.e. African swine fever (ASF), Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), Peste des petits ruminants (PPR), Rift valley fever (RVF) and indeed Contagious bovine pleuro-pneumonia (CBPP), in addition to the overall strengthening of veterinary services.
The GF-TADs’ Standing Group of Experts (SGE) format allows countries with similar socio-economic and epidemiological situations to share information, challenges and best practices, and to discuss regional solutions and approaches to enhancing control. The third SGE Meeting for CBPP discussed Surveillance. The meeting emphasized the importance of ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections for the detection of suspected CBPP cases, followed by laboratory confirmation of the lesions where possible. The ability for a traceback system to the farm-of-origin is essential to improve surveillance for CBPP. The meeting also emphasized the need to promote feasible and sustainable epidemiological surveillance to be implemented at regional level using networking and standardising the epidemiological approach (sero-surveillance, slaughterhouse surveillance, etc).
The overall objective of this training is to encourage the adoption of effective slaughterhouse surveillance procedures as the preferred tool for monitoring CBPP in both endemic and disease-free countries, and to enhance Members’ slaughterhouse surveillance capacities through harmonized CBPP inspection and notification procedures. The training will combine lectures and exercises with slaughterhouse inspections (at Kiserian and Dagoretti).
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