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 EMPRES
is focused on emergencies of a transboundary nature.
Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADs)
Transboundary livestock diseases are those that are
of significant economic, trade and/or food security
importance for a considerable number of countries; which
can easily spread to other countries and reach epidemic
proportions; and where control/management, including
exclusion, requires co-operation between several countries.
EMPRES - Livestock Vision
The EMPRES-Livestock Diseases Vision is: "to promote
the effective containment and control of the most serious
epidemic livestock diseases as well as newly emerging
diseases by progressive elimination on a regional and
global basis through international co-operation involving
EARLY WARNING, EARLY/RAPID REACTION, ENABLING RESEARCH
and CO-ORDINATION".
As the world shrinks more and more to
a global village, this mission grows daily more significant
– diseases recognise no borders. While the EMPRES
mandate is transboundary in nature, the EMPRES principles
apply equally well to emergencies within national borders.
FAO hopes, therefore, that the EMPRES resources will
be of assistance, whatever the disease emergency.
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