This online course will be held in 4 weeks course + 2 extra weeks. 

Participants will be: Turkey, Azerbaijan and Iran CVOs, 350 veterinarians from the Turkish General Directorate of Food and Control (GDFC) and 50 Turkish-speaking official veterinarians from  Iran and Azerbaijan.

The course learning objectives are:

• explain the pathogenesis of FMD;
• describe the clinical signs of FMD in cattle, small ruminants and pigs;
• describe how to age FMD lesions;
• explain how to collect samples suitable to enable laboratory diagnosis of FMD;
• explain how to conduct an epidemiological investigation on a premises where FMD is suspected or confirmed;
• explain how to enter and leave a premises suspected of FMD in a biosecure manner;
• explain the key requirements for a successful vaccination programme for control of FMD;
• outline the key features of the Progressive Control Pathway for FMD Control (PCP-FMD).