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Dear all,
A new version (v.1.5) of FAO EMPRES Global Animal Disease Information System (EMPRES-i) website has been released at http://empres-i.fao.org/
This new version contains major achievements:
· full translation of the website in three languages: English - François - Español · direct access to the website with removal of the password protection · customisation of the template with FAO standards · updated FAO Reference Laboratory list available for download (PDF format)
EMPRES-i is a web-based application that has been designed to support veterinary services by facilitating regional and global disease information. Timely and reliable disease information enhances early warning and response to transboundary animal diseases (TADs) including emergent zoonoses, and supports their progressive control and eradication.
EMPRES-i compiles stores and verifies animal diseases events data from numerous sources (FAO representatives, FAO reports, OIE reports, official government, European Commission, FAO reference centres, laboratories...). The Empres-i database has been used over the past five years covering animal disease such as H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, Foot-and-Mouth Disease, Rift Valley fever, African swine fever and Peste des petits ruminants. The emergence of new diseases is a big challenge too.
The main component of EMPRES-i is the disease event list with its interactive map, which lets you to get day-to-day updated information on current confirmed and denied disease outbreaks for major Transboundary Animal Diseases including zoonoses in the world. Users can search information by disease type and status, date of reporting/observation, species affected or location. Depending on the user’s assigned privileges, there are different access levels to the information.
The system is under continuous development and new features will be added in the future as an animal disease surveillance data module.
Please do not hesitate to contact us on empres-i@fao.org for any suggestion, question, and request of data or bugs found while using the EMPRES-i application.
Best regards,
EMPRES-i Team |
