Rabies and Emerging Viral Diseases in North Africa and Western Europe

Dates: 6-7 June 2009
Hôtel Méhari, Hammamet, Tunisia

Objective:

Rabies is a serious public health concern in North Africa causing a heavy social and economic burden and its reintroduction represents a threat to Western European countries presently free of rabies in non-flying animals. A scientific colloquium "Rabies and Emerging Viral Diseases in North Africa and Western Europe" will be organized by the Institut Pasteur de Tunis, the STM ("Societé Tunisienne de Microbiologie") and the partners of project RABMEDCONTROL (http://www.rabmedcontrol.org/), funded by the EU, This meeting will represent the opportunity to draw the precise picture of the rabies epidemiology in North Africa and the implications for West Europe. It will gather specialists of rabies who will present epidemiological, ecological, sociological and vaccinological key factors for rabies dynamics in North Africa and to present the situation of human and animal rabies in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

Participants:

Meslin FX, WHO Headquarters, Geneva

Nel L, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Cleaveland S., University of Edinburgh, UK

RYBAKOV S., Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service, RUSSIA

Dieter Gniel & Claudius Malerczyk, NOVARTIS

Albrecht Jahn, European Commission

All the RABMEDCONTROL partners:

Representants of the ministry of health and Agriculture of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia

Representants of the ministry of health and Agriculture of France, Spain and Italy

And all registred personnes from Tunisia and elsewhere



Program :

  • Rabies in North Africa
    Dr Bahloul C., Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia     PDF

  • SEARG
    Nel L., University of Pretoria, South Africa     PDF

  • Rabies Challenge
    Meslin F.(WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland) & Dr Cleaveland S.(University of Edinbourgh, UK     PDF

  • Present and Future action in Rabies
    Baldomero Molina Flores, RAHC-NA / FAO Tunis     PDF

  • Emergence of fox rabies in North-Eastern Italy: the new scenario
    De benedictis P. & Mutinelli F., Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy (IZS)     PDF

  • EU support for international collaborative health research on poverty related and neglected infectious diseases
    Albrecht Jahn, European Commission     PDF

  • Standards on stray dog population control OIE twinning programme
    Dr Lea Knopf, Scientific and Technical Department OIE     PDF

  • KAP Survey
    Prof. Ahmed Hamed Zaghloul, Prof. Salah El Ballal & Prof. Hany Youssef Hassan, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Menoufia University, Sadta City, Egypt     PDF

  • Evaluation of the vaccination campaign against rabies in Tunisia
    Dr Bahloul C., Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia     PDF

  • The origin and phylogeography of dog rabies virus in Africa
    TALBI Chiraz, Unité de Dynamique des Lyssavirus et Adaptation à l’hôte, Institut Pasteur PARIS     PDF

  • Rabies DNA vaccinations
    Dr Bahloul C., Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia     PDF

  • Etude de la population canine conduite dans le cadre du projet RabMedControl
    AFSSA Malzeville, FRANCE     PDF

  • Etude CAP/rage conduite dans le cadre du projet RabMedControl
    AFSSA Malzeville, FRANCE     PDF

  • Dermaseptins: new potential antiviral compounds
    Mohamed CHTEOUI, Unit Antiviral Strategies, Institut Pasteur PARIS     PDF

  • Rabies epidemiological situation and vaccination in the Russia
    RYBAKOV S., Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Service, RUSSIA     PDF

  • Intradermal rabies vaccination in pre and post-exposure prophylaxis: a review of clinical trials with purified chick embryo cell vaccine (PCECV) worldwide
    Dieter Gniel & Claudius Malerczyk, NOVARTIS     PDF

  • Control of rabies using parenteral vaccination, from which age can we vaccinate dogs?
    Barrat J., Cliquet F., AFSSA Malzeville, FRANCE     PDF

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