Sadat City - 19 April 2007
Control of Rabies in North Africa and Western Europe

Dates: 19-21 April 2007
Venue: Sadat City, Egypt

Objective:

We wish to take the opportunity of the second year meeting of the EU funded RABMED CONTROL program (http://www.rabmedcontrol.org/) to present the situation of human and animal rabies in countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. 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. This meeting will present a global multidisciplinary approach which aim is to contribute to draw a precise picture of the rabies epidemiology in North Africa. It will gather specialist of rabies who will present epidemiological, ecological, sociological and vaccinological key factors for rabies dynamics in North Africa.

Participants:

Meslin FX, WHO Headquarters, Geneva

Cleaveland S., University of Edinburgh, UK

All the RABMEDCONTROL partners:

• Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (IPP)
• Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia (IPT)
• Institut Pasteur d'Alger, Algeria (IPA)
• Laboratoire Regional d'Analyses et de Recherches Veterinaires de Casablanca, Morocco (LRC)
• University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (UB)
• Agence Française de Securite Sanitaire et Alimentaire, Malzeville, France (AFSSA)
• Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain (ISC)
• Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy (IZS)
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Egypt (FVM)

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 Egypt and elsewhere

Program:

• Rabies challenges - Dr Meslin, F., WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland PDF

• Evaluation of the rabies burden - Dr Cleaveland, S., University of Edinbourgh, UK PDF

• Situation of rabies in the Mediterranean region - Dr. Ahmed Ezzat, Regional WHO Office, Cairo

• Situation of rabies in Egypt - Professor Hamed Samaha, Chairman of the General Organization of Veterinary Services, Egypt PDF

• Situation of rabies in Morocco - Dr El Harrack M., Biopharma, Morocco PDF
• Situation of rabies in Tunisia - Dr Bahloul C., Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia PDF

• Situation of rabies in Algeria - Dr Taril A., Institut Pasteur d'Algerie, Algeria Dr Ben Habiles N., Institut National de la Sante Publique, Algeria PDF1 , PDF2

• Diagnostic of rabies in humans and animals - Dr Bourhy H., Institut Pasteur, France PDF

• Dynamic of bat rabies in Europe - Dr Serra-Cobo, J., University of Barcelona PDF

• Presentation of RABMEDCONTROL - Dr Bahloul, C., Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia PDF

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