Activities of the Animal Health Information Department & Evolution of WAHIS and WAHIS-Wild Presented by: Dr Karim Ben Jebara Head, Animal Health Information Department Meeting of the OIE Regional and Sub-Regional Representations OIE Headquarters, 26 to 29 October 2010

Contents Training activities – Workshops Disease Emergency Preparedness Tracking activities Alert messages OIE-info List Periodical Notification Reports WAHIS-Wild

Workshops on WAHIS/WAHID 2010 Regional Representation for Africa (TD) Swakopmund, Namibia - June 15 - 19, 2010 Training of focal point for aquatic animals Participants from 36 Members Sub-Regional Representation for the Southern Africa Gaborone, Botswana - 31 August to 3 September 2010 Basic workshop on the use of WAHIS for focal point for aquatic animals Participants from 17 Members

Workshops on WAHIS/WAHID 2010 Sub-Regional Representation for the Southern Africa Gaborone, Botswana - 31 August to 3 September 2010 Workshop for Focal Points for Animal Disease Notification Participants from 17 Members

Workshops for Focal Points for Wildlife in 2010 Regional Representations for Africa and the Middle East (STD) Arusha, Tanzania, from 16th to 19th March 2010 Workshops for Focal Points for Wildlife 21 countries of Africa and 9 countries of the Middle East

Workshops for Focal Points for Wildlife Disease in 2010 Regional Representation for Africa (STD) Bamako, Mali 5 to 8 July 2010 Workshops for Focal Points for Wildlife Participants from 23 members Regional representation for Asia and the Pacific (STD) Bangkok, Thailand - 5 to 7 October 2010 Workshops for Focal Points for Wildlife Participants from 25 Members

(to targeted countries) Improving OIE’s Data Quality: Assistance in the organisation of training workshops Training Africa (FR) Africa (EN) Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Middle East WAHIS I To be discussed 2011 Not necessary WAHIS II 4 - 8 Jul 2011 (to targeted countries) Panama 4 to 6 April 2011? 15-17 June 2011 Vladimir, Russia 22-24 Jan 2011 Beirut, Lebanon

Improve Disease Emergency Preparedness of Members Web page updates Disease Introduction Simulation Exercises (by year) distribution through the OIE-info List 2010: 16 messages distributed (18/10/2010) 2009: 25 messages distributed 2008: 20 messages distributed 2007: 10 messages distributed Update on HPAI in Animals (type H5 and H7) Active search for non-official animal health information

Simulation exercises by region 2010

Simulation exercises by region 2010

65 correspondences to Delegates, Improve Transparency in Disease Notification and the Efficiency of the OIE’s Early Warning System Tracking activities - 2010 65 correspondences to Delegates, 49 answers, 18 answers were subjected to an immediate notification report or a follow-up report, published in WAHID (weekly information, etc…), 8 were included in six-monthly or annual reports GLEWS sharing :24 events (from GLEWS diseases)

Tracking Activities Results between 2002 and 2010 Year Correspondence Answers No answer Official notifications 2002 32 18 14 2003 29 24 5 2004 85 67 39 2005 97 74 23 36 2006 113 80 33 66 2007 140 103 37 71 2008 83 30 65 2009 91 55 2010 (19 October) 49 16 26

Number of correspondences sent by region Tracking by region - 2010 Number of correspondences sent by region

The OIE’s Early Warning System in 2010 150 alert messages disseminated from 66 Members, related to 47 different diseases (19/10/2010) : more than 3 alerts per week [They were 190 in 2009] Automatically sent through WAHIS Systematic publication in « Alert messages» section of the OIE web site and in WAHID Immediate notification, follow-up report and simulation exercises are published in Russian and sent to a Russian distribution list (the list should be expanded)

Alert messages by Region

Alert messages by Region

Alert messages by Region

Most Immediately Notified Diseases Regional Distribution EIA: Equine Infectious Anaemia WNF: West Nile Fever

Number of Received Immediate notifications including those coming from unofficial information verification Updated 20 October 2010

OIE-info List Trend in the number of subscribers from 2004 to 2010 (up to 19 October 2010) 610 subscribers have chosen to receive alerts by RSS feeds

World Animal Health publication Published in the three official languages in October 2010. 164 countries and territories included => 2 volumes (161 in 2008) WAH for a given year is now regularly released in October of the following year.

World Animal Health Coverage by WAHIS

World Animal Health Coverage by WAHIS

Animal Health Situation Coverage of the World In 2010, some countries have completed their missing reports for 2005 to 2009 Situation (up to 20/10/2010) : 1st semester 2nd semester Annual part 2005 165 161 152 2006 158 157 143 2007 171 160 2008 182 179 167 2009 169 2010 95 NA

Countries/Territories that have never submitted a report No six-monthly and annual reports submitted since the launch of WAHIS AFRICA EUROPE Equatorial Guinea Sao Tome & Principe Turkmenistan

Use of WAHIS List of the countries that have never used WAHIS web application AFRICA AMERICAS ASIA & Pacific EUROPE Central African rep. Cuba (internet problems) Korea (Dem. people’s rep.) Tajikistan Uzbekistan

Animal Health Information Dissemination WAHID

Animal Health Information Dissemination WAHID

Main steps in improving the notification of diseases in wildlife Transitional year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wild questionnaire managed by the Working Group WAHIS-Wild managed by SIS and related to WAHIS . . . . . . . . WAHIS-Wild 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 presence of the disease in wildlife displayed in the quantitative data . . . . . . . . . Differentiation in WAHID of outbreaks regarding domestic and wild species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wildlife in WAHIS Differentiation of the occurrence codes in domestic and wild species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of susceptible wild species . . .

WAHIS improvements to better report diseases in wildlife Chronology: WAHIS allows now to differentiate the occurrence codes for domestic and wild species (2009) For wildlife, WAHIS will offer a list of known susceptible species in order to report the correct host animal (2011); - by family name; - by scientific name (Latin name); - by common name (in English, French and Spanish). A new interface will be developed and included in OIE web site to display data on non-OIE listed disease in wildlife (2011).

WAHIS - Starting from 2011 The system will offer for wild species category a short list of known susceptible species using a drop-down menu in the quantitative information page for wild species Family name Latin name (scientific name) Common name The short list of known susceptible species will be related to: disease; disease regional distribution (e.g. CWD). Example: Disease Family name Latin name English Common Name French Common Name Spanish Common Name West Nile fever Anatidae Anas platyrhynchos Mallard Canard colvert Ánade Real

WAHIS - Starting from 2011 The system will allow the possibility to add in a box of free text another species (if it is not in the list), indicating the Latin name and common name. When a user adds a new name, the OIE staff will verify it and, after validation, introduce it into the database

WAHIS - Starting from 2011 Quantitative information page for wild species The system will allow the possibility to add in a box of free text another species (if it is not in the list)

WAHIS-Wild

Main steps in improving the notification of diseases in wildlife Transitional year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wild questionnaire managed by the Working Group WAHIS-Wild managed by SIS and related to WAHIS . . . . . . . . WAHIS-Wild 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 presence of the disease in wildlife displayed in the quantitative data . . . . . . . . . Differentiation in WAHID of outbreaks regarding domestic and wild species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wildlife in WAHIS Differentiation of the occurrence codes in domestic and wild species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . List of susceptible wild species . . .

Concept Improve notification and quality of information in wild species Be in line with the current six-monthly reporting procedure for OIE-listed diseases Report specific non OIE-listed diseases affecting wild animals Collecting annual data once a year Through a template divided into two six-month periods Requesting for - qualitative data and - quantitative data (by month or six-month and by first administrative division or for the entire country)

Animal Disease Notification WAHIS - Web application National access DELEGATE WAHIS – Web application National access Terrestrial focal point Aquatic focal point (Nominated by the Delegate) WAHIS-Wild online notification system National access for focal point for Wildlife nominated by the Delegate WAHIS - web application Immediate notifications Follow-up reports Six-monthly reports Annual report Wild data transfer Annual wildlife report

Annual wildlife report: WAHIS-Wild Divided in two parts: OIE-listed diseases in wild species Already entered for the six-monthly reports Automatically transferred to the Annual wildlife report To be checked, corrected and completed if needed by the focal point for wildlife. Need Delegate’s agreement for change Will be displayed on WAHID Non OIE-listed wildlife diseases To be processed by the focal point for wildlife Will be displayed on a specifically designed website

Wildlife information - collection and display Annual wildlife report: WAHIS-Wild OIE-listed diseases Non OIE-listed wildlife diseases A new web interface will be created to display information on wildlife diseases that are not OIE-listed diseases

Example of data transfer of an OIE-listed disease from WAHIS to WAHIS-Wild 1st six-monthly report (for the whole country template) HPAI: transferred from the 1st six-monthly report collected in WAHIS Family name Latin name No. of new outbreaks Serotype Total No. of outbreaks susceptible animals cases deaths animals destroyed animals slaughtered animals vaccinated Validation Anatidae Cygnus cygnus 8   Y/N Branta canadensis 1 Cygnus olor 750 10 Accipitridae Buteo buteo Example 2nd six-monthly report (for the whole country template) HPAI: transferred from the 2nd six-monthly report collected in WAHIS Family name Latin name No. of new outbreaks Serotype Total No. of outbreaks susceptible animals cases deaths animals destroyed animals slaughtered animals vaccinated Validation Anatidae Cygnus olor 2   Y/N Branta canadensis 4 150  Ardeidae Ardea cinerea 100 5 Falconidae Falco peregrinus 3

Example: data to complete on non OIE-listed diseases by FPW For non OIE-listed diseases the system will offer the six-month time period reporting to enter data 1st six-monthly report Chronic Wasting Disease (Non listed wildlife diseases entered by the FPW) Family name Latin name No. of new outbreaks Serotype Total No. of outbreaks susceptible animals cases deaths animals destroyed animals slaughtered animals vaccinated Cervidae Cervus canadensis 2   1 Odocoileus hemionus 52 15 37 Odocoileus virginianus 7 5 Cervus elaphus 2nd six-monthly report Chronic Wasting Disease (Non listed wildlife diseases entered by the FPW) Family name Latin name No. of new outbreaks Serotype Total No. of outbreaks susceptible animals cases deaths animals destroyed animals slaughtered animals vaccinated Cervidae Cervus canadensis 10   Odocoileus hemionus 5 2 3 Odocoileus virginianus 7 Cervus elaphus

Non OIE-listed specific wildlife diseases Do not meet the OIE criteria to be listed Selected by OIE experts on wild animals Because of their importance for wildlife Importance for early warning purposes in order to protect both human and animal health 53 infectious and non-infectious diseases affecting wildlife Few examples: Chronic wasting disease Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever Hantaviruses Elephant Herpesvirus Fibropapillomatosis in sea turtles (reptile disease) Algal toxicosis (non-infectious disease)

WAHIS-Wild Application for notification of Wildlife Disease Notification The questionnaire on wildlife diseases will be integrated into WAHIS-Wild Thus, focal points for wildlife will use the new application instead from the Excel questionnaire

Wildlife questionnaire – results in 2009 A total of 89 completed questionnaires were received

Wildlife questionnaire – results for 2009 collected data Distribution of countries (89) that submitted completed questionnaires to the OIE for 2009

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