1. 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

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

3. Workshops on WAHIS/WAHID
2010
Regional Representation for Africa (TD)
Swakopmund, Namibia - June , 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. (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

8. 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

9. Simulation exercises by region 2010

10. Simulation exercises by region 2010

12. 65 correspondences to Delegates,
Improve Transparency in Disease Notification and the Efficiency of the OIE’s Early Warning System
Tracking activities
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)

13. 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

14. Number of correspondences sent by region
Tracking by region
Number of correspondences sent by region

15. 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)

16. Alert messages by Region

17. Alert messages by Region

18. Alert messages by Region

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

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

21. 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

22. 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.

23. World Animal Health Coverage by WAHIS

24. World Animal Health Coverage by WAHIS

25. 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

26. 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

27. 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

28. Animal Health Information Dissemination WAHID

29. Animal Health Information Dissemination WAHID

30. 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 . . .

31. 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).

32. 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

33. 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

34. 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)

35. WAHIS-Wild

36. 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 . . .

37. 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)

38. 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

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. 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

43. 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)

44. 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

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

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

47. Thank you for your Attention Discussion