Veterinaria

Research Article

Mass Vaccination and Surveillance Reduced the Burden of Foot and Mouth Disease

Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq a#*, Irfan Khattak b#, Nisarul Haqb b, Furqan Awan a

a Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Out Fall Road, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan

b University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate the status of Food and Mouth Disease (FMD) in cattle, buffalo, sheep and goats and to determine the effect of mass vaccination on morbidity and mortality due to FMD in two districts i.e Karak and Haripur of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. A routine surveillance of FMD was conducted for the period of three years (June 2008- May 2011). In last two years (2009-2011), the surveillance was accompanied by mass vaccination. Data collected showed that morbidity rate due to FMD in cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat was 27.04%, 30.97%, 8.88% and 7.98%, respectively. This rate was reduced to 2.90%, 2.68%, 1.58%and 1.14%, respectively due to mass vaccination. The mortality rate before mass vaccination in cattle, buffalo, sheep and goat due to FMD was 0.98%, 2.36%, 0.78% and 0.80% that reduced to 0.06%, 0.09%, 0.00% and 0.02% respectively due to mass vaccination.The study concluded that mass vaccination strategy accompanied by surveillance can be adopted to reduce the burden of FMD.

Keywords: FMD, Vaccine, Surveillance, Cattle, Sheep and Goat.

Received: June 13, 2014; Revised: July 19, 2014; Accepted: Aug 04, 2014

*Corresponding author: Muhammad Hassan Mushtaq; Email: hassan.mushtaq@uvas.edu.pk

Note: # = These authors contributed equally