Foot and mouth disease,
Malawi

Information received on 17/11/2020 from Dr Patrick Chikungwa, Director of Department of Animal Health and Livestock Development, Department of Animal Health and Livestock Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation an Water Development, LILONGWE, Malawi

Summary

Report type	Follow-up report No. 4 (Final report)
Date of start of the event	07/08/2020
Date of confirmation of the event	14/08/2020
Report date	17/11/2020
Date submitted to OIE	17/11/2020
Date event resolved	17/11/2020
Reason for notification	Recurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence	20/07/2020
Manifestation of disease	Clinical disease
Causal agent	Foot and mouth disease virus
Serotype	SAT 2
Nature of diagnosis	Clinical, Laboratory (basic), Laboratory (advanced)
This event pertains to	a defined zone within the country
Related reports	Immediate notification (15/08/2020) Follow-up report No. 1 (28/08/2020) Follow-up report No. 2 (18/09/2020) Follow-up report No. 3 (28/10/2020) Follow-up report No. 4 (17/11/2020)

Outbreaks

There are no new outbreaks in this report

Epidemiology

Source of the outbreak(s) or origin of infection	Unknown or inconclusive Illegal movement of animals Contact with infected animal(s) at grazing/watering Fomites (humans, vehicles, feed, etc.) Contact with wild species
Epidemiological comments	No new cases in the area and the results from BVI indicated SAT2 serotype.

Control measures

Measures applied

Movement control inside the country

Vaccination in response to the outbreak (s)

Administrative division	Species	Total Vaccinated	Details
Chikwawa	Cattle	14978	Trivalent vaccine (SAT1, SAT2 and SAT3)

Surveillance outside containment and/or protection zone
Surveillance within containment and/or protection zone
Quarantine
Ante and post-mortem inspections
No treatment of affected animals

Measures to be applied

Control of wildlife reservoirs
Disinfection

Future Reporting

The event is resolved. No more reports will be submitted.