Improving animal health
through reducing livestock diseases

Animal Production and Health Livestock diseases, particularly those of a transboundary nature and impacting on trade, pose a major challenge to the production and distribution of food of animal origin. Progressive control and eradication of these diseases requires action at national and international level to develop and apply improved techniques and strategies for diagnosis and surveillance, and to set national guidelines and standards for disease control.

Immunoassay and molecular techniques are sensitive, robust, specific and rapid, and offer significant advantages over other methods to support the joint efforts of veterinary authorities, extension services and farmers to control and eradicate diseases that impair productivity and trade in livestock and their products.

In partnership with FAO, OIE, and WHO, we operate a Training and Reference Center from Seibersdorf and co-ordinate strategic and applied R & D to develop and validate these techniques, and through IAEA and FAO Technical Cooporation (TC) projects ensure that they are appropriately used and integrated within national, regional and global programmes for the control or eradication of major livestock diseases and zoonotic infections.

Our objective: to progressively control and prevent major livestock and zoonotic diseases in developing countries through improved diagnosis and surveillance using immunoassay and molecular methods.

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