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Solution /Innovation:

EMPRES Global Animal Disease Information System (EMPRES-i)

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Organization:

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

For more information:

Technical contact:
Dr. FAIROUZ LARFAOUI
Animal Health officer
FAO
Fairouz.Larfaoui@fao.org
Additional contacts:
ELISA PALAMARA
Animal disease data manager
FAO
Elisa.Palamara@fao.org
More info, related website links:

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/news_archive/AGA_in_action/empres-i.html

http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4386e.pdf
Categories:
Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Healthy diets & Nutrition, One Health, Other breed, Pig, Poultry, Red meat, and Sustainable production
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Challenge

The increase in emergence of new pathogens and spread of transboundary animal diseases (TADs) in countries around the world poses a serious and continuing menace to livestock production, food security and the entire food chain. TADs can have significant negative impact on the economy, trade, food security and food safety of countries. They cause high rates of death and disease in animals, and have in many cases public health consequences, knowing that approximately 70 percent of diseases affecting humans have animal origins. Prevention and control of TADs require timely and reliable disease information. Timely and reliable disease information enhances early warning and response to TADs and emergent zoonoses (animal diseases that can be transmitted to humans). It supports prevention, improved management and progressive approach to control. 

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Solution

To address the challenge, FAO’s Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES) designed and developed a web-based secure information system to support country level veterinary services by facilitating regional and global disease information: EMPRES Global Animal Disease Information System (EMPRES-i). EMPRES-i is a database that can be used by countries for storage and analysis of their disease data and can have various levels of user access.  The platform consolidates disease events worldwide using information that EMPRES receives from a wide range of sources. Partners and FAO networks share and feed EMPRES-i with disease information on a regular basis. For validation and verification, EMPRES uses not only official, but also unofficial sources of information. The verification process of disease events and unconfirmed reports is done also in coordination with OIE and WHO, under the GLEWS. EMPRES-i hosts data originated from active surveillance implemented through several projects executed by FAO. This data complements countries’ efforts to know exactly the situation of animal disease pathogens and its distribution in livestock production systems or along the food chain.
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Impact

EMPRES-i is today a global reference database for animal diseases including zoonosis. EMPRES-i stores over 119 000 FAO EMPRES-i outbreak records. It hosts information on disease monitoring and tracking for early warning activities. To date, over 5 000 events have been tracked.
EMPRES-i is under a process of modernization. The system will also better respond to the countries needs for interoperability.

Category

Camel, Dairy, Frameworks and tools, Healthy diets & Nutrition, One Health, Other breed, Pig, Poultry, Red meat, and Sustainable production

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