Title
Activities of the Ecosystem Health Component in 2011 in Wakhan District, Afghanistan
Author(s)
H. Noori., A.M. Rajabi and Ostrowski, S
Abstract
In 2011 the team worked on a wide variety of projects, including organization of two mass vaccination campaigns against foot-and-mouth disease in cattle and domestic yak (Bos grunniens) in Wakhan Valley, the first bovine tuberculosis screening in cattle in Lower Wakhan, a large-scale livestock blood-sampling operation and serological screening for brucellosis and contagious caprine pleuropneumonia, a longitudinal urial sheep (Ovis vignei)
/ Himalayan ibex (Capra sibirica) survey of the Hindu Kush mountain range, and the organization and implementation of livestock census in western Big Pamir. The team has also provided upon demand help and expertise to all requests originating from other components of the WCS project in Wakhan.
Keywords
Vaccination campaigns, Foot-and-Mouth disease, Cattle, Bovine, Tuberculosis
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