Published Date: 2025-02-27 02:46:32 GMT
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Foot & mouth disease - Iraq (05): (BG, AR) livestock, spread, WOAH, st pending
Archive Number: 20250227.8722445
FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE - IRAQ (05): (BAGHDAD, ERBIL) LIVESTOCK, SPREAD, WOAH, SEROTYPE PENDING
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Date: Mon 24 Feb 2025
Source: WOAH-WAHIS (World Animal Health Information System) 2025 [abridged, edited]
https://wahis.woah.org/#/in-review/6290?reportId=172439
Iraq - Foot-and-mouth disease virus (Inf. with)
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Summary
Report type: Immediate notification
Started: 15 Jan 2025
Confirmed: 20 Feb 2025
Reported: 24 Feb 2025
Reason for notification: Unexpected change or increase
Date of last occurrence: -
Nature of diagnosis: Necropsy, suspicion, clinical
Genotype/serotype/subtype: Pending
This event pertains to a defined zone within the country.
Outbreak location: Baghdad, Baghdad-Hay-Al Wahda [District], Al Kurzyia
Started: 15 Jan 2025
Epidemiological unit: Village
Total animals affected:
Species / Susceptible / Cases / Deaths / Killed and disposed of / Slaughtered or killed for commercial use / Vaccinated
Buffaloes (domestic) / 297 / 20 / 6 / 0 / 0 / 238
Epidemiology
Source of event or origin of infection: Airborne spread; contact with infected animal(s) at grazing/watering points
Epidemiological comment: The disease endemic in Iraq. Some owners refrained to vaccination during the last campaign. This event started on 15 January 2025 until 3-6 February 2025 in Baghdad.
Control measures at event level
Domestic, applied: Ante- and post-mortem inspections; movement control; official disposal of carcasses, by-products and waste; disinfection; screening; quarantine; slaughter
[The location of the outbreak can be seen on the interactive map included in the WOAH report at the source URL above.
Note: Data obtained via World Organization for Animal Health's (WOAH) (2025) World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS). Reproduced with permission. WOAH bears no responsibility for the integrity or accuracy of the data contained herein, including, but not limited to, any deletion, manipulation, or reformatting of data that may have occurred beyond its control.]
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Date: Sat 22 Feb 2025
Source: Kurdistan 24 [in Arabic, machine trans., edited]
https://www.kurdistan24.net/ar/story/826163
Many livestock breeders in the Kurdistan Region have complained about the death of large numbers of their animals, causing them financial losses due to the spread of foot-and-mouth disease, which has spread from the southern provinces of Iraq.
A livestock breeder in Erbil said that a truck full of infected animals came from southern Iraq to Kirkuk and then to Erbil, causing the infection to spread to sheep and leading to the death of several animals. He told Kurdistan 24 that within 3 days, 40 sheep out of the 100 he owned had died, and he added that the remaining animals were also infected, except for 3. He added, "No veterinarian or medication can control the disease, and although we conducted several tests on the animals, some veterinarians told us it is an epidemic."
He pointed out that the arrival of the animal shipment from southern Iraq to Erbil was also the cause of the disease spreading to their livestock.
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[In 2024, FMDV outbreaks were due to the emerging SAT2/XIV lineage across several governorates. A vaccination campaign started in August 2024 using a vaccine containing O, A, Asia-1, and SAT 2 serotypes. ProMED-MENA would appreciate receiving any available information regarding the epidemiological situation, particularly the FMDV serotype(s)/topotype(s) currently circulating in Iraq. - Mod.SF
ProMED maps:
Baghdad Governorate, Iraq: https://promedmail.org/promed-post?place=8722445,25541
Erbil, Arbil Governorate, Iraq: https://promedmail.org/promed-post?place=8722445,19493]
