AVIS Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD)
General Editors: Dr.
Bill Geering, Dr. Tony Garland, Dr. Mark Rweyemamu
Commissioning
Editor: Professor Julian Hilton
AVIS: The Advanced Veterinary Information System
The AVIS System was initiated in 1992 by FAO, OIE, WRL Pirbright and Telos Aleff Ltd to pioneer the creation of peer-reviewed, "gold-standard" multimedia reference and training materials for professionals and decision-makers in animal health and production.
1. Foot and Mouth Disease: New Edition
AVIS FMD 2006 is a completely revised and updated version of the edition so widely used in 2001. It offers an encyclopaedic resource of scientific and technical information about FMD, containing over 1,600 "pages" of information, illustrated with hundreds of photos, charts and maps, and supported by extensive documentation such as EU Directives and links to sites of value to the specialist.
- It digests the animal health, managerial and technical lessons learned from recent epidemics, principally of FMD, but also of BSE, CSF, PPR and the various avian diseases, which have caused problems in the past five years.
- It presents the impact of FMD in its social, economic, human health and animal welfare context, with close attention to the effect on rural livelihoods.
- It adds modules on risk management, contingency planning and emergency response to the tested AVIS template.
Video sequences are introduced for the first time, for example of key laboratory procedures, conducted under the auspices of the Pirbright World Reference Laboratory.
Editorial Policy
AVIS is transitioning its editorial stance from a disease- to a risk-driven approach to disease. It is also now adopting the description "high impact disease" as a means of grouping the diseases AVIS addresses. In other respects, editorial policy has not changed. All AVIS programs are peer-reviewed. And AVIS is delighted to record its thanks to the ever larger number of contributors and reviewers from all over the world who have made the revised 2004 edition possible.
2. FMD PROGRAM CONTENT
Foot and Mouth Disease (English Edition) has six extensive modules, available on CD, DVD or on-line, supplemented with a Glossary and list of References.
1. Overview
2. Disease
a. Susceptible
Species
b. Pathogenesis
c. Clinical
Features
d. Pathology
e. Clinical
Differential Diagnosis
f. 
Consequences
3. Cause
a. Aetiology
b. Laboratory
Management
c. Laboratory Diagnosis
d. Future
Diagnosis
e. Characterisation
4. Epidemiology
a. Introduction
b. Disease
Surveillance and Early Warning
c. Risk Analysis
5. Management
a. Preventing
the Introduction of FMD
b. Contingency Planning
c. Emergency
Response
d. Progressive Control in
Endemic Areas
e. Principles of FMD Vaccine
Production and Quality Control
6. 
Resources
a. Case
Studies
b. Charts
and Data
c. Checklists
d. Diagrams
e. Documents
f. Images
g. Maps
h. Presentations
i. Protocols
j. Video.
Glossary of Key Terms and Abbreviations
References
Powerful navigation aids, a detailed site map and a search engine make the FMD knowledge base easy to access and use. Each module can be used in stand-alone form. But modules interlink to form a comprehensive reference tool.
Customisation
AVIS can customize programs for particular needs, such as local legal requirements, language, culture, or regional priorities. Discuss your needs with an AVIS officer.
3. AVIS: Addressing Stakeholder Needs
Different stakeholders in animal health and production have different needs, but common standards link all actions and interventions. The Overview module gives the non-specialist a rapid and authoritative introduction to the key issues concerning a given disease. Further modules address specific stakeholder needs:
- Livestock producers and farming communities
- Planners and decision- makers on the national and sub-national level
- National veterinary authorities and reference sites
- Regional field staff and extension services, including veterinarians
- Laboratory workers
- Epidemiologists and control specialists
- Personnel from enterprises and organizations involved in animal disease control, i.e. meat and dairy industry, vaccine producers, NGOs
- Veterinary students.