♦ 06 April 2017 ♦ [Relayed from promedmail.org] “The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) is launching [April 2017] an ambitious modernization project of its World Animal Health Information System (WAHIS). WAHIS is the OIE internet-based computer system that processes data on animal diseases in real-time from Member Countries and some non-Member Countries and territories and then informs the international community through its Interface. Ten years after it was...

♦ 01 April 2017 ♦ OIE provides some infographics on rabies figures and actions that could be implemented to fight against rabies. These infographics are interactive and can be a good source of information to inform general public or aliment your presentations. See on the OIE website the English version and the French version of the “No more deaths from rabies” document: By clicking on the cross in front of each item, additional information appears. Do not hesitate to...

♦ 07 April 2017 ♦ The latest issue of the EuroReference online magazine (issue 2) was released last March and is now available online. EuroReference is an online magazine published in English. Its mission is to facilitate the dissemination and sharing of information among all referencing stakeholders at European level. In this issue, you can find the various information, among which the article “New regulation on official controls: what changes for official laboratories?...

♦ 20 March 2017 ♦ Registration for both meetings in Budapest is close to end now. Remember deadline is 30th March 2017. Should you intend to attend one or both meeting(s), do not to forget to register online following the link provided in the e-mailed sent to the networks. If you do not find the link, please ask us using rabies.eu-rl@anses.fr. Laboratories from the serology network willing to present or share information about rabies serology (development of new tools, comparison...

♦ 20 March 2017 ♦ If you registered for the 2017 session of the inter laboratory test for rabies diagnosis, please check that all needed documents have been sent to the EURL for rabies in order to validate your participation. Remember that it is necessary to send before the launch of the test the original document of the unilateral commitment back to our team, and, if needed, an import permit delivered by your official administration.  

♦ 17 February 2017 ♦ The WHO/ Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases released on 17 February a report on human rabies 2016 updates. [Relayed from who website] “The report updates the epidemiological information on dog-transmitted rabies, discuss the changing needs from surveillance when approaching elimination and data sources for rabies in animals; it outlines new sources and recent developments towards more complete rabies data and calls for active...

♦ 16 January 2017 ♦ Next workshop for rabies will be held on 13 June, afternoon, and 14 June, morning in Budapest, Hungary. The rabies serology meeting will follow on 14 June, afternoon, and 15 June, full day at the same place. A mail of information has been sent to both networks. Laboratories from the serology network willing to present or share information about rabies serology (development of new tools, comparison of techniques, situation of your laboratory regarding rabies...

♦ 09 January 2017 ♦ Registrations for the 2017 session of the inter laboratory test for rabies diagnosis are now closed. Forty-eight laboratories from all continents will participate to this annual trial, testing one or several diagnosis techniques (FAT, RTCIT, Conventional RT-PCR and Real Time RT-PCR). Requested documentation (fully filled in, initialled and stamp unilateral commitment and import license) must be sent to the EURL for rabies for finalisation of registration....

♦ 13 December 2016 ♦ Contrarily to what had been previously announced, both the next workshop for rabies and the rabies serology meeting will not be held in Spain. Dates remain unchanged: 13-14 June for workshop for rabies and 14-15 June for the rabies serology meeting. Please accept our apologies for this change of destination beyond our will. We are currently working on another destination that should be announced very soon.    

♦ 15 December 2016 ♦   The call for participation for the 2017 session of the inter laboratory test for rabies diagnosis has just be sent to every potentially interested laboratories. As usual, the test will have to be performed with one or several diagnosis techniques: FAT, RTCIT, Conventional RT-PCR and Real Time RT-PCR. The test is intended for EU National reference laboratory for rabies, and may be extended to other laboratories upon request and material availability...