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European Commission meeting on lumpy skin disease
In the council meeting, the Commission stressed the importance of good preparedness and encouraged EU countries to follow the Commission’s advice more consistently and to work on regional cooperation. The Commission also said that it was willing to help facilitate a vaccination programme.

The AHAW Panel report followed a request from the European Commission for an assessment of the implications of the spread of the disease and its persistence following the implementation of a stamping out (culling) policy on affected animals in regions where the disease had been confirmed, compared to a policy of stamping out and vaccination.

The study looked at data from Greece and Bulgaria, two countries currently affected by Lumpy Skin Disease. It investigated the size of the herds that were infected, their locations and information about vaccination and the type of virus – whether it was field or vaccine strain.

The investigation also looked at the effectiveness of vaccination that has been carried out in Greece this year.

The panel compared the effectiveness of using a partial stamping out policy with total stamping out and also the timing of vaccination and its effectiveness after the disease was reported.

It found that the highest protection came 21 days after vaccination.

“It can be concluded that, according to the model for the transmission of LSDV between farms, vaccination has a greater impact in reducing LSDV spread than any stamping-out policy, even when low vaccination effectiveness is considered (40 per cent),” said the study.

“When vaccination is evenly applied so that 95 per cent of the farms are vaccinated with 75 per cent of vaccinated animals effectively protected, then total stamping out and partial stamping out result in a similar probability of eradicating the infection.

“Nevertheless, when no vaccination is applied or when assuming a low vaccination effectiveness (e.g. 40 per cent), the probability of eradication is higher when total stamping out is performed as compared to partial stamping out.

“Partial stamping out results in a limited increase of the number of farms affected as compared to total stamping out.”

The report adds that vaccination measures were most effective in reducing LSDV spread if protection had already been developed at the time of virus entry, followed by increasing the number of protected herds after virus entry.

“No vaccination is the least effective option in reducing LSDV spread,” it says.