From of?cial disease status to global freedom

摘要

In the early 1990s, the OIE World Assembly of Delegates (the Assembly)gave the OIE the responsibility of compiling a list of Member Countriesor zones that could of?cially be recognised as being free from certain diseases. To this end, the OIE developed a clearly de?ned and impartial procedure for declaring a Member Country free from a speci?c disease. In May 1995, the Assembly adopted a new procedure, which called upon the OIE Commission for Foot and Mouth Disease and other Epizootics (since renamed the OIE Scienti?c Commission for Animal Diseases) to examine in detail, and in accordance with the requirementsof the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code (Terrestrial Code), dossiers submitted by the Delegates of Member Countries to support their claim that their countries could be considered free of foot and mouth disease (FMD). The ?rst of?cial list of OIE Member Countries to be recognised as being free from FMD, without the use of vaccination, was published in May 1996, on the recommendation of the Commission and after adoption by the International Committee at the OIE General Session. This process for of?cially recognising a country’s disease status has since been expanded to include rinderpest in 2003; contagious bovine pleuropneumonia (CBPP), also in 2003; bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in 2004; African horse sickness (AHS) in 2012; and both classical swine fever (CSF) and peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in 2013.