11 Mohd Rosly Bin Shaari (Malaysia)

MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF IMPORTANT
TRANSBOUNDARY ANIMAL DISEASES IN MALAYSIA
Mohd Rosly Shaari and Shanmugavelu Sithambaram
Animal Science Research Centre
Malaysia Agricultural Research and Development Institute,
GPO Box 12301, 50774, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
E-mail: rosly@mardi.gov.tw
ABSTRACT
Transboundary disease transmission has received attention since the end of the 20th
century in Malaysia.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Emergency Prevention Systemfor animal health focuses
on 12 to 14 diseases of a transboundary nature. Out of those diseases listed in the system, only five are of
major concern which includes foot and mouth disease (FMD), contagious bovine pleuropneumonia,
highly pathogenic avian influenza, Newcastle disease and African and classical swine fever. FMD is
considered as one of the most important Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs) due to its contagious
nature that can easily spread and be introduced by global animal movements. In Malaysia, an outbreak
of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was first confirmed on 17 August 2004. Since then, a total
of 18 outbreaks have occurred and out of these, 12 occurred in 2004, none in 2005, 5 in 2006 and 1 in
2007. All outbreakswere successfully eradicated by Stamping out Policy with full compensation which is
a proven strategy forrapid elimination of HPAI outbreak. The effectiveness of the eradication program
complying with OIE standards is reflected by the reduction in days fromconfirmation till the declaration
of freedom. Recently, Malaysia lost its rabies-free statusdue to an outbreak of canine rabies in July 2015
which involved three statesin northern part of Peninsular Malaysia. Nevertheless, there was no case of
human rabiesdespite numerous dog bite cases during the outbreaks. Currently, we developed a sub-
dermal RFID-based Ruminant Profiling System for animal identification, monitoring and most
importantly for traceability.
Keywords: Foot and Mouth Disease, Stamping out policy, Sub-dermal

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