FAO honours the IAH for its contribution to the eradication of rinderpest
In a scientific editorial* in Veterinary Record to be published on 1st July 2011, top researchers have said that the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) should focus on peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus as the next livestock virus for eradication. PPR virus, which is a close relative of the recently eradicated rinderpest virus of cattle, affects sheep and goats. In the same issue, Dr Michael Baron and colleagues of the BBSRC’s Institute for Animal Health have briefly reviewed** the disease.