AIMS:

Eradication and monitoring programmes aim at progressively eliminating animal diseases that are endemic in certain areas of the Community. They also include checks aimed at the prevention of zoonoses.

CONTENTS:

The programmes include a wide range of measures including vaccination, testing of animals, compensation for slaughtering or culling, treatment.

Diseases covered :

• Bovine tuberculosis,
• Bovine brucellosis,
• Ovine and caprine brucellosis (B. melitensis),
• Bluetongue in endemic or high risk areas,
• African swine fever,
• Swine vesicular disease,
• Classical swine fever,
• Anthrax,
• Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia,
• Avian influenza,
• Rabies,
• Echinococcosis,
• Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE),
• Campylobacteriosis,
• Listeriosis,
• Salmonellosis (zoonotic salmonella),
• Trichinellosis,
• Verotoxigenic E. coli,
• Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS),
• Infectious haematopoietic necrosis (IHN),
• Koi herpes virus disease (KHV),
• Infectious salmon anaemia (ISA),
• Infection with Marteilia refringens,
• Infection with Bonamia ostreae,
• White spot disease in crustaceans.