Understanding the level of preparedness to use emergency vaccination for FAST diseases in European countries by Kathy Gibson

EuFMD is conducting a program of work to better understand the role of emergency vaccination for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and similar Transboundary Animal Diseases (FAST) in Europe and its neighbourhood.
Materials and Methods
In 2022, EuFMD hosted two online workshops with participants from EuFMD member nations and other organisations. Participants used scenarios modelled in four European countries to develop a list of criteria for implementing emergency vaccination. Subsequent epidemiological modelling compared the effect of different emergency control measures, including different vaccination strategies, on hypothetical outbreaks of FMD in four different European countries. Scenarios were simulated using the stochastic spatial simulation model EuFMDiS (The European Foot-and-Mouth Disease Spread Model).

The scenarios modelled for these workshops were selected on the basis that they would lead to discussion and were not necessarily ‘typical’ of expected outbreaks in the selected countries.