REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE OIE SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION FOR ANIMAL DISEASES Paris, 9–13 September 2019
Scientific Commission/September 2019
Tunisia has become the second country after Algeria to detect a case of CPD within a year
The Commission was informed that, in May 2019, the OIE received an immediate notification from Tunisia of a case of camel prion disease (CPD) as an emerging disease. The OIE did not publish the immediate notification in accordance with the Commission recommendation of February 2019 that more evidence should be collected to assess whether this disease should be considered as an emerging disease as defined in the Glossary of the Terrestrial Code.
The Commission noted that Tunisia has become the second country after Algeria to detect a case of CPD within a year. After analysing the information available, the Commission was concerned about the limited surveillance information on the disease to make an assessment on the need to consider it as an emerging disease. However, the Commission reiterated its position that CPD should be considered as a new disease and should not be overlooked.
The Commission encouraged Member Countries to gather surveillance and research information on this disease in countries with important dromedary camel populations to measure the impact of the disease, and to provide new scientific evidence to the Commission, when it becomes available, to reassess CPD as an emerging disease.
The Commission was informed that CAMENET is drafting a preparedness and response plan, including epidemiological surveillance for CPD, that would be discussed with CAMENET members during the Conference of the OIE Regional Commission in the Middle East to be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in November 2019. The purpose of the preparedness and response plan will be to assist countries in prevention, early detection and timely response to the disease and facilitate countries being well prepared for this threat.
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Camel prion disease detected in Tunisian camels Camel prion disease detected in Tunisian camels
A novel prion disease first reported in three dromedary camels in Algeria in 2018 has now been detected in dromedaries in Tunisia, the second country to be affected within a year, ProMED Mail, the online reporting system of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, reported yesterday.
The Tunisian detection and the latest information about the disease, called camel prion disease (CPD) and sometimes referred to as "mad camel disease", came from a presentation at the Mediterranean Animal Health Network meeting, held in Cairo on Jun 26 and 27. According to the meeting presentation, CPD is spreading rapidly in the Ouargla region of Algeria where the disease was first identified in older camels at a slaughterhouse.
The scientists who presented at the meeting also said preliminary results suggest that the CPD prion is different from scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE, or "mad cow disease").
A comment from the ProMED Mail moderator Arnon Shimshony, DVM, associate professor of veterinary medicine at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, notes that the area where CPD was first found in Algeria is about 174 miles from the Tunisian border.
In the initial report on the first detection in Algerian camels, published in April 2018 in Emerging Infectious Diseases, described disease-specific prion protein in brain tissues from symptomatic camels, including positive samples in lymph nodes, suggesting infection. The moderator also requested more details about the detections in Tunisia, including location, clinical signs, and ages and origins of affected camels. Jul 29 ProMED Mail post Apr 18, 2018, CIDRAP News story "'Mad camel' disease? New prion infection causes alarm"
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Subject: Prion Disease in Dromedary Camels, Algeria
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Dromedary Camels Algeria Prion (Mad Camel Disease) TSE BSE MRR Import Export Risk Factors Excluding Grains and Plants
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Dromedary Camels Algeria Prion (Mad Camel Disease) TSE BSE MRR Import Export Risk Factors Excluding Grains and Plants
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REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE OIE SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION FOR ANIMAL DISEASES Paris, 9–13 September 2019 BSE, TSE, PRION
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