Sheep Pox and Goat Pox can spread through close contact between infected animals. Quarantine and biosecurity measures are essential to prevent transmission in flock and herds.

Learn more with our new open-access course and our leaflet. 🐐🐑

🆕🔔Learn more about TOM, the EuFMD Training Management System.

TOM is more than just a tool – it's a pathway to progress! It is designed to help veterinary authorities assess and manage the capacity development of individuals and organizations.

🎙 New Podcast!

Listen to the study by Alex Drouin, EuFMD FAST Risk Management and Modelling Support Expert, on modeling the risk of Rift Valley Fever circulation in the Western Mediterranean basin.

🦟Learn more about the challenge of obtaining entomological data to assess the risk of RVF virus transmission.

🚨 New strategy alert! Introducing the 2023-27 Move FAST strategy by EuFMD, to protect the livestock sector in Member Nations from FAST diseases. 🌍🤝 Together with our network of experts, organizations, and neighboring countries, we're building a strong defense against transboundary animal diseases.

📣 Register your interest for the Open Session 2024, #OS24.

🗓 29-31 October 2024
📍 Madrid, Spain

Explore the dynamic landscape of FAST disease risks in a changing world, from megatrends shaping the global scenario to microlearning shaping individual capabilities.

🎊The EuFMD wishes you a year filled with progress, resilience, and good health for both you and your nearest and dearest.

Our team is gearing up for a transformative year ahead, championing initiatives to advance our Move FAST strategy and support FAO's Sustainable Livestock Transformation.

Calling all farmers and animal health professionals! 🐄🔬

The "Guidelines for biosecure entry-exit during a Foot-and-Mouth Disease investigation" JobAid is available online.
Check the importance of physical segregation, cleaning and disinfection.

New technologies are shaping the future of veterinary medicine.

We have piloted the potential of drone use for disease surveillance and outbreak management.
📽 Watch a video️!

Early warning systems are core in identifying and containing FAST risks.

Our new strategy reinforces these systems in FAST risk areas within Member Nations and other regions. Together, we can detect and respond swiftly to potential outbreaks.

Move FAST strategy: what you need to know.

🌎From megatrends to microlearning!

Be part of EuFMD Open Session 2024 and explore a wide range of topics, including the latest research on FAST diseases, and the development of new vaccines and treatments.

Register your interest here.

📽 What you need to know about Foot-and-Mouth Disease, a video developed by the EuFMD Team to outline the main transmission routes of FMD and the clinical signs which characterize the infection.

🐄 Protect livestock, livelihoods, and food security.

Join the EuFMD open-access course on "Introduction to animal health Surveillance" and gain insights into global disease monitoring and risk mitigation.

🐄🐐 Cross-border movement of animal pathogens can lead to dramatic social and economic consequences.

The EuFMD developed the Risk Monitoring Tool, which is a risk-ranking framework to assess the risk of a FAST disease's introduction in a country.

🐄🐐Shape the future of animal health at Open Session 2024!

Join vets, researchers, students, and experts from all over the world, in October 29-31 in Spain for discussions on megatrends, microlearning on FAST diseases, and more.

📄Understanding the socioeconomic impacts of Foot-and-Mouth disease and other livestock diseases can contribute to support disease control strategies.

👉 This course is particularly aimed at those working in countries which are at stages zero, one and two of the Progressive Control Pathway for Foot-and-Mouth Disease (PCP-FMD).

More details on this EuFMD in-depth V-learning course.

📢Open Session 2024: Launch of the call for abstracts!
The OS will showcase talks and digital scientific posters.
Click this link and download the guidelines for abstracts submission.
🔔The deadline is 15 June 2024.

🆕 Our website has been revamped! Explore it for insights, resources, data, tools, and crucial information to help you investigate and control suspected or confirmed outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease, Rift Valley Fever, Sheep and Goat Pox, Lumpy Skin Disease, and Peste des Petits Ruminants.

New look, same dedication to disease control!

The EuFMD's new Move FAST strategy is centred on three Focus Objectives, seven priority Action Areas and eight principles. The four-year work programme builds upon capacity development, preparedness, networks, early warning systems and global surveillance. The overall aim is to reduce risk and consequence of FAST introduction into member nations and states.

📝 Call for Abstracts: Open Session 2024 invites submissions on FAST diseases' surveillance, virology, socioeconomics, diagnostics, vaccination, risk assessment and modeling, biosecurity, capacity development, and more.
⏳ Deadline: June 15
Register your interest and submit your abstract!