Training workshop for North Africa on Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) surveillance and episystems to enable disease detection, control and eradication

The objectives of this workshop are:
• To sensitise countries on PPR GEP and PPR PMAT
• To provide a refresher on the clinical presentation, transmission and risk factors for PPR
• To introduce different PPR surveillance approaches, the episystems concept and the tools needed to
identify episystems (including conventional, participatory and molecular epidemiological approaches
and animal tracing)
• To discuss information needed to define existing episystems in the region