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ArticleEpidemiology and infection2020

Evaluation of human resources needed and comparison with human resources available to implement emergency vaccination in case of foot and mouth disease outbreaks in Tunisia.

Maud Marsot, Benoit Durand, Wafa Ben Hammouda, Heni Hadj Ammar, Malek Zrelli, Roukaya Khorchani

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Maud MarsotUniversity Paris Est, ANSES, Laboratory for Animal Health, Epidemiology Unit, Maisons-Alfort, France.ORCID 0000-0002-2307-8957
Benoit DurandUniversity Paris Est, ANSES, Laboratory for Animal Health, Epidemiology Unit, Maisons-Alfort, France.
Wafa Ben HammoudaTunisian Veterinary Services, 30 rue Alain Savary, 1002Tunis, Tunisia.
Heni Hadj AmmarTunisian Veterinary Services, 30 rue Alain Savary, 1002Tunis, Tunisia.
Malek ZrelliTunisian Veterinary Services, 30 rue Alain Savary, 1002Tunis, Tunisia.
Roukaya KhorchaniTunisian Veterinary Services, 30 rue Alain Savary, 1002Tunis, Tunisia.

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Abstract

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease that affects domestic and wild artiodactyl animals and causes considerable economic losses related to outbreak management, production losses and trade impacts. In Tunisia, the last FMD outbreak took place in 2018-2019. The effectiveness of control measures implemented to control FMD depends, in particular, on the human resources used to implement them. Tunisia has the ultimate objective of obtaining OIE status as 'FMD-free with vaccination'. The aim of this study was to determine and compare the necessary and available human resources to control FMD outbreaks in Tunisia using emergency vaccination and to assess the gaps that would play a role in the implementation of the strategy. We developed a resources-requirement grid of necessary human resources for the management of the emergency vaccination campaign launched after the identification of a FMD-infected premises in Tunisia. Field surveys, conducted in the 24 governorates of Tunisia, allowed quantifying the available human resources for several categories of skills considered in the resources-requirement grid. For each governorate, we then compared available and necessary human resources to implement vaccination according to eight scenarios mixing generalised or cattle-targeted vaccination and different levels of human resources. The resources-requirement grid included 11 tasks in three groups: management of FMD-infected premises, organisational tasks and vaccination implementation. The available human resources for vaccination-related tasks included veterinarians and technicians from the public sector and appointed private veterinarians. The comparison of available and necessary human resources showed vaccination-related tasks to be the most time-consuming in terms of managing a FMD outbreak. Increasing the available human resources using appointed private veterinarians allowed performing the emergency vaccination of animals in the governorate in due time, especially if vaccination was targeted on cattle. The overall approach was validated by comparing the predicted and observed durations of a vaccination campaign conducted under the same conditions as during the 2014 Tunisian outbreak. This study could provide support to the Tunisian Veterinary Services or to other countries to optimise the management of a FMD outbreak.

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AnimalsDisease OutbreaksFoot-and-Mouth DiseaseHumansImmunization ProgramsTunisiaVaccinationViral VaccinesViral VaccinesFMD outbreakhuman resourcesTunisiavaccination

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