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 Introduction
The EMPRES Project, headed by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
supports two major efforts:
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Plant pest control focusing on the
desert locust
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Animal disease eradication focusing
primarily on rinderpest, but also on 5 other epidemic
diseases (contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, peste
de petit ruminants, contagious caprine pleuropneumonia,
rift valley fever, lumpy skin disease)
EMPRES assists countries in building their
own surveillance/early warning systems, establishing
contingency plans, and establishing a global information
system for disease monitoring. It can provide training
assistance to national epidemiologists, and advise on
setting up practical surveillance programs.
The Group prefers to work through "clusters"
of client countries in order to work as cost-effectively
as possible, and also to promote international co-operation
in disease management. Regional workshops on contingency
planning disease surveillance have already been held,
and will continue.
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