Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Blog from a FAO officer, working in Indonesia; updated once a month.
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It is time to describe my job so you know what the heck I am talking about. The project I am working on is the Avian Influenza Control Programme, Indonesia, part of the FAO emergency response to the disease outbreak that began in 2003. Initially, it looked like the disease was primarily infecting backyard poultry and the project I am working on is meant to target people who own them.
It is called Participatory Disease Surveillance (PDS) and Participatory Disease Response (PDR). The system was designed by one of my advisers at Tufts, who had previously implemented it to eradicate rinderpest (cattle plague) from the earth. Rinderpest is only the second disease to ever be eradicated, the other is smallpox.
The basis for the system is that there are local animal health teams set up to do surveillance for a disease, and other teams available to respond to outbreaks once they find them. The PDS/R officers educate villagers about the disease and gather epidemiological information about the disease as they go.
More:
http://stacielawson.blogspot.com/
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It is time to describe my job so you know what the heck I am talking about. The project I am working on is the Avian Influenza Control Programme, Indonesia, part of the FAO emergency response to the disease outbreak that began in 2003. Initially, it looked like the disease was primarily infecting backyard poultry and the project I am working on is meant to target people who own them.
It is called Participatory Disease Surveillance (PDS) and Participatory Disease Response (PDR). The system was designed by one of my advisers at Tufts, who had previously implemented it to eradicate rinderpest (cattle plague) from the earth. Rinderpest is only the second disease to ever be eradicated, the other is smallpox.
The basis for the system is that there are local animal health teams set up to do surveillance for a disease, and other teams available to respond to outbreaks once they find them. The PDS/R officers educate villagers about the disease and gather epidemiological information about the disease as they go.
More:
http://stacielawson.blogspot.com/
