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The Global Rinderpest Eradication Programme. Status report on progress made to date in eradication of rinderpest: highlighting success story and action required till global declaration in 2010. [pdf] Full Story »

The Sterile Insect Technique in the BBC. Member States have requested to the IAEA the development of mosquito Sterile Insect Technique as an additional tool for suppressing mosquito populations and interfering with transmission of disease. This BBC reports on a research and development project targeting Anopheles arabiensis that is ongoing at the FAO/IAEA Agriculture and Biotechnology Laboratory. It addresses some essential components for development of mosquito Sterile Insect Technique. BBC Report 1 » and BBC Report 2 »

Nuclear Focus on Animal Production and Health. An international symposium focusing on the use of nuclear and nuclear related technologies to enhance animal nutrition and reproduction and to detect and control diseases of animal origin that can be transmitted to humans, such as Influenza-A (H1N1), commonly known as swine flu, and avian influenza, was recently concluded in Vienna. Full Story »

International Cooperation Can Help Curb Pandemics. [...] New technologies emerging every day, many of them nuclear and related techniques, are essential pieces in ensuring appropriate diagnostics and control of animal-origin disease such as avian and H1N1 influenza pandemics, known as zoonotic diseases. Full Story »

Improving Livestock Productivity in Honduras - IAEA Project Set to Move From Laboratories to Farms. Honduras is poised to bring a set of integrated laboratory-based services for the benefit of cattle farmers, as an IAEA-supported project to improve livestock productivity moves into its third phase. Full Story »

AFRICA: Sterile tsetse flies help increasing livestock productivity. Each year in Africa the tsetse fly causes more than US$4 billion in agriculture income losses, kills three million livestock and infects up to 75,000 people with trypanosomosis, according to the UN. An integrated approach, involving the release of sterile tsetse flies may help addressing the problem, but it's a long, complex and demanding process. Full Story »

Protecting Wheat Harvests from Destruction. Scientists are accelerating research into new varieties of wheat to identify those resistant to an aggressive fungus that is destroying harvests in African and Middle Eastern countries. Full Story »

Bovine Genome Provides Clues to Evolution, Better Beef and Milk. After 6 years of work by more than 300 researchers from 25 countries and $53 million in funding, the cow genome has arrived. Sequencing of the bovine genome provides new information about mammalian evolution as well as cattle-specific biology and points the way to research that could result in more sustainable food production in a world challenged by global population growth. Full Story »

IAEA’s support helps Eritrea to controlling Brucellosis and Tuberculosis in Cattle. The IAEA started to support the veterinary services of Eritrea in the late 1990s when the country requested help with their rinderpest eradication programme. The IAEA provided technical assistance in the setting-up of a diagnostic laboratory and the training of staff ... Full Story »

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6 - 10 July 2009
Improved Understanding of Bactrocera and Anastrepha Pest Species Complexes for Enhanced SIT Application to Facilitate International Trade, Vienna, Austria.
Technical Secretary: A. Jessup

31 August - 4 September 2009
Technical Panel on Pest Free Areas and Systems Approaches for Fruit Flies (TPFF), Vienna, Austria.
Technical Secretary: Rui Cardoso Pereira

21 - 25 September 2009
Improving Sterile Male Performance in Fruit Fly Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) Programmes, Mauritius.
Technical Secretary: J. Hendrichs

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