Welcome Editorial

Read on to find out about the launch of this year’s World Rabies Day awards, a MSD Animal Health Fellowship with Mission Rabies & about recent conferences.

In January, the EMA held a stakeholder focus group meeting on the availability of lumpy skin disease vaccines.

Welcome to the first 2017 edition of eMergence. We have continued to follow transboundary and emerging diseases across the world, watching and responding as diseases spread or change.

This year, working in partnership with the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC), we were pleased to introduce the first World Rabies Day MSD Animal Health Awards.

Today we look at new developments in Bluetongue and Lumpy Skin disease, reports from Partners in Rabies Prevention and the OIE General Session, MSD Student Award and some vital work with Mission Rabies.

This winter, we have reports from the South East Asia and China FMD OIE subcommission meeting and International Poultry Council meetings.

On 3rd November the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) announced the launch of their new campaign, “End Rabies Now”.

The summer period tends to be a quiet one for conferences, and becomes a good time for reflections on how we move forward with disease control.

Welcome to the first edition of eMergence, a new quarterly newsletter from MSD Animal Health which acts as a single site bringing together news and scientific articles on transboundary and emerging diseases.

The second quarter of 2015 was a busy one for conferences, with many sponsored by MSD Animal Health.