TADs in the dromedary

Bernard Faye ()
Additional contact information
Bernard Faye: UMR SELMET - Systèmes d'élevage méditerranéens et tropicaux - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: The transboundary diseases in camel are mainly linked to the regional camel meat market from Sahelian countries (from Mauritania to Somalia) to the Arabian peninsula and North Africa. Indeed, the camel flow in relationship with this market is based on live animals' export. Because the camel trade can be formal and informal with interconnections between both sectors and despite veterinary controls in the main exporting ports, some diseases such as Rift Valley fever (RVF), PPR-like disease, and MERS-coronavirus can spread from exporting countries to importing ones. However, the epidemiological status of these different diseases is quite variable and the transmission to humans in case of zoonosis (RVF and MERS-Cov) is not necessarily due to transboundary camel trade despite the impact of outbreak on the regional camel market. Globally, dromedary camel is less affected than other ruminants by infectious diseases under transboundary surveillance. But, because camel breeding is concentrated in countries where the disease surveillance systems often lack means, where the frontiers in desert areas are often "porous," and where the herd mobility is difficult to assess, the risk of transboundary diseases' transmission through borders is not negligible. Nowadays, the challenge of TADs control is limited to Rift Valley fever, but special attention must be paid to emerging diseases, including the recent discovery of prion disease in Algeria.

Keywords: Afrique du Nord; Mauritanie; Somalie; Algérie; Pays arabes; Camelidae; dromadaire; chameau; épidémiologie; transmission des maladies; viande; commerce agricole; surveillance épidémiologique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Kardjadj Moustafa (ed.); Diallo Adama (ed.); Lancelot Renaud (ed.). Transboundary animal diseases in Sahelian Africa and connected regions, Springer, pp.91-103, 2019, 978-3-030-25385-1. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-25385-1_6⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05174631

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25385-1_6

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().