The course will run online, starting on 21 June 2023 and will be open for four weeks, during which participants must complete approximately 12 hours of self-directed study. There will be a forty-minutes webinar at the beginning on 21 June 2023 and at end of the course on 19 July 2023. EuFMD will provide expert trainers who will be available via an online discussion forum to ask and answer questions from participants.

Topics covered include: 

• clinical and laboratory diagnosis of LSD;
• outbreak investigation and epidemiology;
• biosecurity; 
• overview of control and eradication measures for LSD.  

The course is suitable for veterinarians who will be directly involved in diagnosis or investigating LSD suspicions or outbreaks and is particularly suitable for field level government and private veterinarians.

After studying this course participants will be able to: 

• describe the global significance of LSD; 
• describe the clinical signs of LSD; 
• explain how to collect and handle samples to enable laboratory diagnosis of LSD; 
• explain main serological and virological diagnostic test for LSD; 
• describe key epidemiological features of LSD to include risk factors and routes of transmission; 
• explain how to conduct an epidemiological investigation on a premises suspected of LSD; 
• explain how to design surveillance programmes for LSD; 
• summarize the advantages and disadvantages of available control measures for LSD; 
• explain the main consideration in the implementation of vaccination programmes to control LSD.