Course: Rinderpest Disease Recognition

This is the first of a series of courses on rinderpest, offered through the FAO e-Learning Academy, that aims to improve knowledge and capacities to suspect and rapidly identify and control an outbreak if re-emergence occurs. The course provides an overview of rinderpest eradication and illustrates the consequences of a possible re-emergence. It also describes the disease etiology and epidemiology, clinical signs, post-mortem findings, and differential diagnosis.

Audience
This e-learning course is intended for a range of professionals who play a role in detecting and facing a possible re-emergence of the disease, including:

• Veterinary services
• Veterinary professionals
• Laboratory personnel
• Researchers, teachers and students of veterinary faculties

You will learn about

• Basics of rinderpest and the consequences of a possible re-emergence
• The organism that causes the disease and its epidemiology and transmission
• Clinical signs and different forms of the disease infection in cattle and buffaloes
• Typical post-mortem findings in cattle and buffaloes
• Common differential diagnosis of rinderpest from similar disease
  

Course structure
The course consists of 5 lessons, ranging from approximately 10 to 40 minutes duration each:

• Lesson 1 – Rinderpest eradication and consequences of re-emergence
• Lesson 2 – Etiology and disease epidemiology
• Lesson 3 – Clinical signs of rinderpest
• Lesson 4 – Post-mortem findings
• Lesson 5 – Differential diagnosis

CPD points
This course is a 2 CPD points accredited course by the Kenya Veterinary Board.