The purpose of the Committee on Foreign and Emerging Diseases is to serve as a forum for the exchange of information pertaining to global or emerging diseases of concern. It is the responsibility of members of this committee to bring to the attention of their peers the current world status and distribution of diseases of concern, recent advances in knowledge of the ecology and etiology of these diseases, improved diagnostic techniques, and successful methods for the control and eradication of these diseases. The Committee may invite experts from countries in which specific exotic diseases exist to present technical information for consideration of the members of the Committee. The committee presents this information in the form of a report to the USAHA executive committee. The committee may influence policy (government, academic, research, etc.) regarding these foreign and emerging diseases through appropriate resolutions presented to USAHA executive committee. Periodically the committee prepares, for publication by the USAHA, a field diagnostic manual entitled, “Foreign Animal Diseases, Their Prevention, Diagnosis and Control.”
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2016
2012
Update: Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate
Michelle Colby, Branch Chief, Agricultural Defense Chemical and Biological Defense Division Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency Science and Technology Directorate
Update: Plum Island Animal Disease Center
Luis Rodriguez, Agricultural Research Service, Plum Island Animal
Disease Center
Update: Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases
Juergen Richt, Director, CEEZAD
Update: National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense
Tammy Beckham, FAZD Center Texas A&M University
Update: National Animal Health Laboratory Network
Barbara M. Martin and Sarah Tomlinson, U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services
2011 Schamallenberg Virus Outbreak
Wim H. M. Van der Poel, Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen University and Research Centre
USDA Response to Schamallenberg Virus: Testing and Diagnosis
Diane Rodman, U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services
Avian Influenza in Jalisco, Mexico
Hugo Fragoso
Assessment of National Strategies for Control of HPAI and H5/H7 LPNAI With an Emphasis on Vaccination Programs
David Swayne, OIE Collaborating Centre for Research On Emerging Avian Diseases
Development of an Influenza Risk Assessment Tool
Susan Trock, Influenza Division, NCIRD, CDC
Quad FMD Code Project
Tom Smylie, Foreign Animal Disease Section, CFIA
Is the United States Really at Risk for Introduction of Rift Valley Fever Virus?
Mo Salman, Animal Population Health Institute, Colorado State University
One Health
Valerie Ragan, Director, Center for Public and Corporate Veterinary Medicine Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine
Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World Screwworm) Exercise in Florida with Historical and Current Threat Information
Gregory Christy, Emergency Programs Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
FADD Field Manual for Use in FAD Field Investigations
Liz Clark, U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services
2014
Resolution 4: Need for United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services Risk Assessment and Rulemaking prior to Allowing Imports from Countries with African Swine Fever
2013
Resolution 25: ERADICATION OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE FROM THE AMERICAS
2012
Resolution 31: STERILE SCREWWORM FLY PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
2011
Resolution 36: FUNDING FOR DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES AGRICULTURE AND FOOD
2009
Resolution 20: ENHANCE DEVELOPMENT OF RISK ASSESSMENT MODELS BY DETERMINATION OF UNITED STATES WILDLIFE SUSCEPTIBILITY TO RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS
2008
Resolution 2: Regional and Operational Animal Health Emergency Management
Resolution 6: Surveillance for Bluetongue and Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in the United States and the Caribbean Region
Resolution 34: Funding for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus Research
2007
Resolution 5: Funding and Planning of Integrated and Comprehensive Animal Health Surveillance
2006
Resolution 6: Support of Funding for a Demonstration Project to Implement the Proposed National Agriculture and Food Continuity of Business All Hazard Plan
Resolution 35: Coordination of International Efforts to Combat Disease
Resolution 36: Support for the Inter-American Group for the Eradication of Foot and Mouth Disease
Resolution 37: Continued Support for the Global Foot and Mouth Disease Research Alliance
2005
Resolution 37: National Coordinated Clearing House of Information
Resolution 38: National Specified Risk Materials Task Group
Resolution 39: Support Grupo Interamericano Para la Eradicacion de la Fiebre Aftosa
Resolution 40: Funding for Research on Vaccines and Antivirals for Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Classical Swine Fever
Resolution 41: Development and Implementation of Rapid Milk Polymerase Chain Reaction Testing for Foot and Mouth Disease
2004
Resolution 07: Federal Funding for the National Animal Health Laboratory Network
Resolution 19: Homeland Security Presidential Directive 9
Resolution 22: Training Opportunities for Veterinary Students