| Bird Flu - Expert Advice on controlling Avian
Influenza
A web based seminar sponsored by
Intervet in September 2006 - Click
here!
NB. This takes about two (2) minutes to download and last
approximately and hour and a half if you have a Broadband Internet
Connection. or a
.pdf of the seminar's power points
- Click
here!
Presentations from:
Dr. Ilaria Capua, Born in Rome
in 1966, Ilaria Capua graduated in Veterinary Medicine with honours from
the University of Perugia in 1989, after which she obtained her
postgraduate qualification as a specialist in Animal Health and Hygiene
from Pisa University in 1991. Head of the Virology Department at
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Padova, Italy and
Head of the National, FAO and OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health)
Reference Laboratories for Avian Influenza and Newcastle disease.
Between 1999 and 2003 Dr. Capua was directly involved in managing
several avian influenza and Newcastle disease epidemics and in 2000
developed the DIVA (Differentiating Vaccinated from Infected Animals)
strategy, based on heterologous vaccination, to combat avian influenza.
This strategy, the first ever developed to combat avian influenza by
vaccination while still enabling the trade of products, resulted in the
eradication of avian influenza at that time in Italy and was approved by
the EC and the OIE.
During her career as a veterinary virologist her work has been
recognized with her nomination as OIE and FAO expert for avian influenza
and Newcastle disease. She has further been commended by the Director
General of OIE for the development and validation of the DIVA strategy
to combat avian influenza.
Dr. Les Sims (Australia) from the Australian
College of Veterinary Scientists in diagnostic pathology, he has
extensive field experience with H5N1 in Asia. A veterinarian, he has
been closely involved with the avian influenza outbreaks in Asia since
1997, while working for the government in Hong Kong (1993-2002) and
subsequently as a veterinary consultant working for FAO in China,
Mongolia, Viet Nam, North Korea and Thailand.
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