Disease Surveillance Section is
responsible for developing the eradication and control programmes according to
the animal health profile of the area, for the epidemiological analysis, for
controlling the effectiveness of the eradication control programmes, for
organising on-farm investigations in case of suspect/confirmed positive
results, for data reporting.
The objectives of the disease
surveillance programme are:
To achieve harmonisation with other EU countries in veterinary
controls and surveillance programmes.
To strengthen veterinary epidemiological surveillance measures, in
accordance to EU legislation (64/432/EC, 93/24/EC).
To achieve a disease-free status.
These figures
illustrates epidemiologic studies of bluet
ongue virus in Europe on the top,
disease outbreak zones and on the bottom controlled areas in Malta