Official name: Republic of Malawi
WRLFMD code: MAL
FMD first recorded:  
FMD eradicated:  
Subsequent outbreaks:  
Serotypes (last rpt):  
Current status: Endemic
Useful websites:  
FMDV Serotype Years (not comprehensive)
Untyped 2015
O 1957, 1962, 1974-1975, 1982, 1985, 1998, 2022
A 1966-1967, 1973, 1974 (carrier cattle), 1981
C -
Asia 1 -
SAT 1 1970-1971, 2000-2001, 2015-2016, 2021
SAT 2 1959, 1973, 1975, 2003-2004, 2008, 2011, 2019, 2020, 2023
SAT 3 1976
Notes All three SAT serotypes are probably endemic in the African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) population

WRLFMD
batch no.
Date
Received
Type Virus
samples
Topotype Lineage Sublineage WRLFMD
Reports
  29/06/2000 SAT 1 MAL 1/2000        
WRLFMD/2004/00011 17/05/2004 SAT 1
SAT 1
SAT 1
SAT 1
SAT 1
SAT 2
SAT 2
MAL/2/2000
MAL/3/2000
MAL/4/2000
MAL/1/2001
MAL/2/2001
MAL/1/2003
MAL/2/2003
I (NWZ)
I (NWZ)
I (NWZ)
I (NWZ)
I (NWZ)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Detection
Genotyping(SAT1)
Genotyping(SAT2)
WRLFMD/2004/00018 06/07/2004 NVD MAL/1/2004 nd nd nd Detection
WRLFMD/2009/00047 18/09/2009 SAT2 MAL/1/2008 I unnamed - Detection
WRLFMD/2016/00020 10/6/2016 FMDV‑GD MAL/1/2015 nd nd nd Detection
WRLFMD/2017/00025 19/10/2017 SAT 1 MAL/1/2016 I unnamed - Detection
Genotyping(O)
Vaccine
WRLMEG/2019/00034 14/06/2019 SAT 2 MAL02/2019* I unnamed - Genotyping(SAT2)
WRLMEG/2020/00028 19/10/2020 SAT 2
SAT 2
MAL01/2020*
MAL02/2020*
I
I
unnamed
unnamed
-
-
Genotyping(SAT2)
WRLMEG/2021/00011 29/07/2021 SAT 1 MAL3/21* I (NWZ) - - Detection(SAT1)
WRLMEG/2022/00012 13/04/2022 O MAL03/2022* EA-2 - - Genotyping(O)
WRLMEG/2023/00026 15/08/2023 SAT 2 MAL05/2023 * II - - Genotyping(SAT2)

Notes:
nd, not done
*, Not a WRLFMD reference number (only VP1 sequence received)