July 2014No 29

Newsletter of the World Veterinary Poultry Association

ContentsTime for reflection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Trevor Bagust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3

Canadian health update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Branch reports: Austria, China, Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-7

Branch reports: Jordan, Israel, Macedonia, Sweden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8-9

2nd WVPA Asia Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10-11

WVPA Congress 2015 Cape Town. . . . . 12-13

WVPA News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Training Course in Pakistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Obituary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Houghton Trust travel grants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Diary of meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

National contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Visit: www.wvpa.netFor more information on the association, membership, grants andawards, publications, meetings and links to related websites

Editor – Charles Hofacre

The last few months have been a time for reflection following the death ofour President, Trevor Bagust, earlier this year. Unfortunately, the WVPAConstitution does not really cater for such an occurrence and so yourExecutive decided to respect Trevor’s tenure of office by not appointing aninterim President, but to let the Officers (the two Vice Presidents and theSecretary/Treasurer) run your Association. This is what is now happeningand we are pleased to report that everything is running smoothly.

At the Nantes’ Bureau Meeting, Chuck Hofacre was given a mandate toreview the constitution and propose amendments to make it more fit forpurpose for the next couple of decades. This Chuck proposes to do byseeking general comments in Cape Town in 2015 and then bringing formalresolution(s) forward for discussion before ratification in Edinburgh in 2017.This, it is felt, will give everyone enough time to reflect on the issues so wedo not rush into things too quickly and end up ‘marrying in haste to repentat leisure’!

The loss of Trevor means that, as well as electing a President and VicePresident in Cape Town, we will need to elect a second Vice President toserve the four years that Trevor would have served as retiring president.

To date, 2014 has been interesting for WVPA. May saw the first EuropeanMeeting of WVPA, which took the form of an afternoon session during VIVEurope in Utrecht, Holland. The theme was ‘Emerging Avian Health Threats’and it attracted over 100 attendees who enjoyed four excellent presentations.

Recently, WVPA visited South Africa to be briefed on the 2015 Cape TownCongress and were very impressed with what they saw and how things wereprogressing. Well done South Africa – just over a year to go! Everyone shouldbe planning to go to Cape Town for what promises to be an excellentcongress in September 2015!

The 2nd WVPA Asia Meeting, which will also host the 2nd Asian AvianPathology Lecture and the presentation of the 2014 WVPA-Zoetis YoungPoultry Veterinarian Award, will soon be upon us. It has an excellentprogramme and is being well supported by our commercial friends. So,please try to get to Bangkok on 11-12th September 2014 for what should bea thought-provoking and interesting meeting!

Your Officers

Time for reflection

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Born in 1944 in Tauranga, NewZealand, Trevor John Bagust camefrom a family of farmers andbuilders. His schooling was at MtAlbert Grammar School Auckland,on completion of which he crossedthe ‘ditch’ to the University ofQueensland, graduating in 1966with the degree of Bachelor ofVeterinary Science. This wasfollowed by a PhD in animalvirology (bovine and equineherpesviruses) at the sameuniversity, completed in 1970.

Immediately following his PhD,Trevor was employed as a researchscientist developing animalvaccines at the CommonwealthSerum Laboratories, Victoria, and

then in 1973 was recruited into theCommonwealth Scientific and IndustrialResearch Organisation (CSIRO) Division ofAnimal Health, Parkville, Victoria to developan avian diseases research programme.

Trevor was responsible early in his careerfor the design, establishment and operation ofthe National Specified Pathogen-Free PoultryFacility, opened in 1977, which provided afoundation for avian disease research, vaccineproduction and avian exotic disease diagnosisin Australia and other southern hemispherecountries for some 20 years.

From 1975 to 1985 Trevor developed and leda large CSIRO programme of research into anumber of infectious diseases of majoreconomic importance to the Australianpoultry industry.

These included avian leucosis,reticuloendotheliosis, infectious bursaldisease, infectious bronchitis and infectiouslaryngotracheitis (ILT). His work improvedour understanding of mechanisms ofpathogenesis, transmission, diagnosis andcontrol of these viral infections, and in thecase of lymphoid leucosis virus led to itseradication from Australian commercialflocks. Of particular note was his discoverythat the trigeminal ganglion becomes a majorsite for latency establishment by ILT viruses,including modified live virus vaccine strains,that later underwent reactivation and spread.

His work also led to the development andcommercial application of the A20 vaccinestrain of ILT virus that is still used inAustralia and overseas over 20 years after itsdiscovery. In recognition of his knowledgeand expertise, Trevor was invited to co-author

the chapter on ILT in ‘Diseases of Poultry’,which he did for three editions between 1991and 2003.

In 1985 Trevor was appointed Officer-inCharge of the CSIRO Animal Health ResearchLaboratory, and between 1987 and 1989 wasacting Chief of the CSIRO Division of AnimalHealth. While Officer-in Charge, Trevor wasappointed Director of Australia-ChinaPoultry Projects (1988 to 1996) operatedthrough AusAID, the Australian internationaldevelopment agency. Under his leadership,China’s national specified pathogen-freepoultry production facility at HarbinVeterinary Research Institute, the PoultryDiseases Diagnostic and Training Centre atTianjin and the Beijing Laboratory AnimalsResearch Centre were all established.

In 1997, Trevor was honoured for his workin China and in Vietnam by the award of theKesteven Medal by the Australian VeterinaryAssociation in recognition of his outstandingachievements in international animal healthdevelopment assistance.

Throughout his time in the CSIRO Trevorworked with and provided opportunities formany colleagues and was very supportive of,in particular, young scientists, includingmany from overseas countries for whom heprovided crucial training and opportunities.

Trevor hosted many distinguished scientistsand visitors to the CSIRO Animal HealthResearch Laboratory and was tireless inpromoting the individual and collectiveachievements of avian disease research inAustralia.

In 1996, after the closure of the CSIROAnimal Health Research Laboratory inParkville and translocation to the AustralianAnimal Health Laboratory site in Geelong,Victoria, Trevor departed CSIRO and wasappointed Senior Lecturer in the Faculty ofVeterinary Science at the University ofMelbourne. In 1998 Trevor undertook thedevelopment of a Master of VeterinaryStudies course for postgraduate specializationin avian health, and from 2004 to 2010 waspivotal in the establishment and developmentof Avian Health Online (AHO). Thisprogramme provides postgraduate educationand training of avian veterinarians via onlineinteractive learning and is an academiccollaboration between the University ofMelbourne and the University of Georgia,USA.

Trevor’s passion for education throughAHO has resulted in training of more than 30

Trevor J. Bagust (1944-2014)

Reprinted from Avian Pathology with

permission from the Houghton Trust

and the publisher Taylor & Francis

Trevor John Bagust (1944-2014)

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veterinarians from all over the world. Most ofthese currently serve as poultry specialists formajor poultry breeding or pharmaceuticalcompanies. At every World VeterinaryPoultry Association (WVPA) meeting, Trevorplanned a get-together lunch or breakfastwith all the past and current students, as wellas any AHO course contributors who were atthe meeting. This made everyone feel part ofa family – the AHO family.

Trevor authored some 70 peer-reviewedscientific articles and textbook chapters. Inrecognition of his scientific standing and hisseminal contributions to AHO, in 2012 he wasappointed an Adjunct Professor in theDepartment of Population Health at theUniversity of Georgia and an honoraryAssociate Professor at the University ofMelbourne.

He was a Life Member of the AustralianVeterinary Association and the Australianand New Zealand College of VeterinaryScientists, and was an editor and member ofthe Advisory Board of Avian Pathology.

In 2013 he was admitted as a foundationmember of the WVPA Hall of Honour. Trevorwas twice a former President of the

Australasian Veterinary Poultry Associationand its representative within the Bureau ofthe WVPA for some 20 years to 2012. He waselected President of the WVPA in 2011; aposition he was to continue until August 2015but for his untimely and sudden death on 28February 2014. Trevor loved to play the piano,smoke his pipe and speak French, which heloved and used with flare. Friends andcolleagues knew him by the sobriquet ‘T-Bags’, which is obviously a truncation ofhis name. He was a person possessingboundless energy and enthusiasm and wasthe eternal optimist. Trevor had a remarkable,full, and varied career of achievements.

Most recently he had been enjoying ‘semi-retirement’ in coastal Victoria, devoting timeto playing bridge, music, gardening, readingand furniture restoration. He is survived byhis wife Joanne, daughters Fiona, Kathrynand Elizabeth, and grandchildren Jacob,Lachlan and Elise.

Kevin Whithear, Jagoda Ignjatovic & Amir Noormohammadi

Faculty of Veterinary Science, University ofMelbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia

A loss to WVPA

On the WVPA front Trevor had been activefor many years as the Bureau Representativeof the Australasian Branch and he played hispart in Sydney successfully gaining and thenhosting the 1993 WVPA Congress.

Trevor became Vice President in 2005 at theIstanbul Congress in Turkey and assumed thePresidency six years later at the CancunCongress in Mexico. Over the years Trevorhad worked in various disciplines andcountries and this, coupled with hisinternational interpersonal skills, gave himthe ideal range of skills to take on thechallenging role of WVPA President. He alsohad the great ability to delegate withresponsibility, which allowed his fellowofficers to successfully progress variousWVPA projects. They always knew somethingneeded his consideration and reflection whenhe adjourned a meeting to go into pensivemode with his beloved pipe!

During his time as President of WVPATrevor oversaw various successes such as therevamping of the WVPA website, the

inauguration of the WVPA Asia Congress in2012 and the creation of the WVPA YoungPoultry Veterinarian Award, which waspresented in both 2012 and 2013.

But, if you could ask Trevor what gave himthe most satisfaction, he would undoubtedlyhave answered the creation of the WVPA Hallof Honour, which he personally supervisedand then launched at the Nantes Congress in2013. It was a fitting tribute to Trevor that hewas one of the founding intake into this Hallof Honour.

Trevor always had time for his professionalcolleagues, whether they were youngveterinarians or scientists facing the dauntingexperience of their first Congress andpresentation; or senior colleagues in the latterstages of distinguished careers. Trevor wasfortunate enough to have been blessed with aunique combination of professional, scientificand people skills which meant that one couldrightly say that ‘Trevor’s greatest attributewas that he was Trevor!’

Nigel HorroxHafez M. Hafez

Vice Presidents of WVPA

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Trevor John Bagust (1944-2014)

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Sustainability of theCanadian Global Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank

The responsible use of antibiotics is currentlya key topic. Antibiotics are important notonly to treat infections but also to alleviatepain and therefore address animal welfare.

To proactively reduce the risk of antibioticresidues, veterinarians need to provideproducers with accurate information on thedisposition of drugs or chemicals in animalsprior to slaughter.

With financial support from pharmaceuticalcompanies, veterinary medical associations,and livestock and poultry producer groups,Canada joined a Global Food Animal ResidueAvoidance Databank program known as CgFARAD.

This is a non-profit academic service, inplace for many years now, independent of theCanadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) orthe Veterinary Drugs Directorate of HealthCanada. Based at the Western College ofVeterinary Medicine in Saskatoon,Saskatchewan and the Ontario VeterinaryCollege, in Guelph, Ontario, the CgFARADprovides information on residue avoidance aswell as conducts research on drugmetabolism that otherwise would not becarried out.

Veterinarians submit requests for specificwithdrawal recommendations before off labelor extra label drug use (ELDU) in Canada.However, the CgFARAD will not give arecommendation of a withdrawal time fordrugs without a Drug Identification Number(DIN). A drug must have been registered foruse in Canada for humans or at least for oneanimal species to have a DIN.

On average, CgFARAD makes about 1500recommendations per year. Stakeholders areunanimous in their recognition of the valueof CgFARAD to consumers in Canada as wellas to our trading partners. Prior to slaughter,the CFIA requires a poultry producer toprovide the processor with a Flock Sheet (FS).The FS contains information that provides thenecessary level of confidence that identifiedpotential chemical and biological hazardsassociated with live domestic poultry havebeen considered, and to the extent possible,controlled and/or prevented at the farm level

and/or during transportation. FS data allowCFIA staff to judge if the processor is takingthe necessary preventive measures toevaluate incoming flocks according to thewritten specifications contained in their foodsafety program. When ELDU is required,veterinarians shall supply the producer witha prescription which includes the withdrawaltime and the CgFARAD reference number forrecording on the advance copy of the FS.

A copy of the veterinary prescriptioncontaining information on the withdrawalperiod, the name of the veterinarian whoprescribed the drug, the date of theprescription, the condition being treated andthe reference number must be submittedwith the advance copy of the FS. In 2013,poultry practitioners made up 62% ofCgFARAD requests.

Since the CgFARAD obtains financialsupport from pharmaceutical companies,veterinary medical associations, andlivestock and poultry producer groups, thesustainability has always been threatened.

The Canadian Association of PoultryVeterinarians has always provided financialsupport, but it is a small organisation that isnow having difficulty meeting its financialcontribution. An inner advisory committeewithin the CgFARAD was created to sourcemore permanent funding, perhaps comingfrom a federal budget.

In the meantime, an application for fundingwill be sent to Agriculture and Agri-FoodCanada for Growing Forward 2 (GF2). GF2 isa five-year (2013-2018) policy framework forCanada’s agricultural and agri-food sector. Itis an investment by federal, provincial, andterritorial governments and CgFARAD hopesthat the application for funding will fall intoone of GF2’s frameworks for thedevelopment and implementation of newagricultural risk management tools.

Teresa N. CerenoCorresponding secretary of WVPA Canada

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Canadian health update

Minutes from NantesThe minutes from the WVPA XVIII General Business Meeting 2014 in Nantesare available in PDF from:

www.wvpa.net/pdfs/XVIII_GBM_WVPA_2014.pdf

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Branch reportsAustria In 2014, the first meeting of the Austrianpoultry sector took place early in Januaryduring the Ecosocial forum in a small villagein the southeast of the country. This annualmeeting is supposed to link agriculture andveterinary medicine resulting in a highnumber of participants from all sectors. Thescope of the meeting ranged from marketingissues towards new legislation. Theconsequences faced by production due to theban of GMO soya was a special focus.

Meeting activities continued in April whenthe Association to Promote Research inPoultry Science (VAG) organised for the thirdtime a two-day meeting outside Vienna atLake Neusiedl, in a splendid resort. Thismeeting has succeeded to link science andsocial activities in an excellent way, enablingintensive discussions and networking. Guestspeakers came from Holland (J. J. De Wit) and

Germany (D. Schulze, H. Block andM. Pöppel), who gavepresentations on new diagnosticmethods and diseases in turkeys,broilers and layers. Veterinaryhealth issues were targeted bypresentations about salmonella andcampylobacter. Data about the useof antibiotics in veterinarymedicine highlighted again thehuge responsibility of veterinariansas pointed out by Dr Herzog, theAustrian CVO. Linking antibiotic

monitoring and use, in addition to othersubjects, with production was introduced asthe core of a new program which should beimplemented by the Austrian poultryindustry. The program was initiated by thenational Poultry Health Service (QGV) and

should enable relevant EUlegislation to be applied inAustria.

Two different projects,carried out at the Clinic forPoultry and Fish Medicine,University of VeterinaryMedicine Vienna, werecombined with smallconferences and work-shops. Firstly, the newly

established Christian Doppler Laboratory forInnovative Poultry Vaccines started in Marchwith an official opening and a seminarcovering aspects of poultry health andgenetics up to the use of autogenous vaccines

Dr U. Herzog (CVO Austria)

Speakers at the IPOV seminar

Austrian and Hungarianfootball teams

for disease prevention. These were presentedby renowned speakers (J. Chroboczek, H. M.Hafez, J. McKay and T. Noe) and specialists.Fowl adenoviruses and Histomonasmeleagridis are within the main focus of theco-operation set up between vaxxinovaGmbH in Germany and the clinic in Vienna.

In June, the closing meeting of the CEPOproject took place at the Campus of theUniversity. This project was a joint meetingbetween the Vetmeduni Vienna and theGeorgikon Faculty of the PannonianUniversity in Hungary, to strengthen theAustrian/ Hungarian poultry industry.Consequently, most participants came fromthese two countries to listen to talks whichfocused on nutrition, gut health and poultryheath in general. Invited speakers were C.Ewers (Justus-Liebig University in Giessen),who spoke about E. coli infections and B.Svihus (Norwegian University of LifeSciences), who highlighted the importanceand function of the gizzard for the digestiveprocess. There was a common consensus thatall options should be evaluated to continuethe successful collaboration. The social part ofthe event was dominated by a football match,which was lost by Austria despite anintensive training program.

Prof. Dr Michael HessCorresponding Secretary of WVPA Austria

China

Subgroup J avian leukosis virus (ALV-J) wasintroduced into meat-type chickens in Chinawith the imported ALV-J infected breeders inthe 1990s and caused a lot of economic lossesas seen in other countries. Some Chinesebreeder companies with AA and Ross linesstarted to be clean from 2003 by inspection ofimported breeders, but ALV-J related tumourcases continued to be reported in otherbreeders of different white meat-type chickenlines until 2007. During the last few years,there has been no ALV-J cases reported inwhite meat-type chickens. However, ALV-Jhas been gradually transmitted into layer andChinese local yellow chicken farms since theearly 2000s. ALV-J was isolated andconfirmed in layers and yellow chickensrespectively in the mid 2000s. Severeoutbreaks of ALV-J myelocytomatosis andhaemagioma with high mortality of 5-20%

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spread in layers in China during 2008-2009and it was estimated that about 60 millionlayers died of ALV-J related tumours in 2009alone. To resolve the problem, the ChineseMinistry of Agriculture has carried out anational surveillance program on ALVinfection status to all layer grandparentbreeder farms since 2010. Some pedigreebreeder flocks have even initiated a very stricteradication program for ALV since 2009. Atleast one pedigree layer breeder farm is alreadyfree from exogenous ALV infection. The ALV-Jcases in layers were dramatically droppednationwide from 2011, and almost no morecases were reported in layers since 2013.

ALV-J is still spreading to many farms ofdifferent Chinese indigenous chicken breedsand Chinese developed meat-type yellowchicken breeds, and the ALV-J related lesionsof myelocytomatosis and haemagioma havebeen detected in more and more farms andbreeds. The eradication programs have beenconducted in a limited number of farms inseveral provinces and progressed very well sofar. There are so many independent farms orcompanies of different chicken breeds,however, it is long way to go to control ALV-Jinfection in chicken farms of Chinese localbreeds.

The 17th National Conference of ChineseAssociation of Avian Pathologists (CAAP)will be held on 7-10th November, 2014, inGuangzhou City, China. The NationalConference of CAAP is held every two yearsand usually more than 400 participantsattend. The conference will focus on thecurrent major disease problems in poultryproduction. Foreign avian pathologists arewelcome, but Chinese will be the onlylanguage during the conference.

Dr Zhizhong CuiCorresponding secretary of WVPA China

Hungary

A meeting was organised in March to informmembers about the scientific lectures from theWVPA Congress in Nantes. The followinglectures were given:l Péter Erdei. Safety of poultry products.l László Kőrösi. Nutrition and poultry healthand mycoplasma.l Imre P. Horváth. Viral respiratory diseasesIBV.

l János Povazsán. Viral respiratory diseasesND and therapeutics and antibiotic resistance.

After the scientific meeting MihályDobos Kovács introduced his new bookon the pathology of domestic birds.

Derzsy DaysThe annual Derzsy Days was held inSzeged, a nice city located in southHungary on the bank of the river Tisza,in June. More than 250 participantsenjoyed the presentations.

Csaba Nemes, head of the KaposvarVeterinary Diagnostic Laboratory,received the Derzsy Award. The title ofhis presentation was ‘Why is it difficult todiagnose disease in poultry?’

There were two speakers from Spain on theThursday morning. Natália Majó Masferrer(Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)presented Recent European experience withIBV variants. Juan Carlos Abado from CobbSpain presented on Colibacillosis in poultry.Zoltán Pénzes presented the importance of IBQX strains and the opportunities forprotection by vaccines.

On Thursday afternoon a block of nutritionissues was presented – Nutrition effect fordigestibility and gut flora by Károly Dublecz(Keszthely University), Mycotoxin and thepossibilities of protection by Miklós Mézes(Szent István University), Feed sampling andmonitoring for mycotoxins by GézaDenkinger (Nébih). Mihály Albert (Ceva)presented a case study of ionophore toxicosisin turkeys.

Two lectures on antibiotics were presentedin the second part of Thursday afternoon.Melinda Terényi (Nébih) on Actual questionsof antibiotic usage and Szilárd Jánosi (Nébih)on Antibiotic resistance of bacteria isolatedfrom poultry.

Friday morning’s presentations were casestudies of Reovirus viral arthritis and CAVand Reo co-infection. The first presentationwas given by Timea Tatár-Kis and the secondby Edith Kovács Walkóné.

The presentations were the works of theCeva Laboratory staff.

Gerda Pállai (Nébih) presented the Resultsof salmonella eradication/thinning and AttilaCsorbai (Poultry Production Board) finishedthe program with the presentation of thecompetition and competitors.

Dr László KőrösiCorresponding secretary of WVPA Hungary

Branch reports

Csaba Nemes with theDerzsy Award

Prof. János Meszárosgreeting Mihály DobosKovács

Jordan

In an official and large publicceremony under the patronage ofHis Excellency Dr Akef Al Zoubi(Minister of Agriculture, Jordan), theJordanian Branch of the WVPA wasannounced in Amman, Jordan. Allpublic and private sectors dealingwith all aspects of the Jordanianpoultry industry, Public Health and

Food Safety and local offices of internationalorganisations were invited. This event wascovered by local media.

The JVPA president’s (Dr Al-Natour) speechincluded a definition and goals of JVPA andinvited all related organisations to cooperate

with JVPA in order to help theJordanian poultry industry toproduce healthy meat and table eggsfor consumers (from farm to fork).

He also added that JVPA candesign workshops for trainingpeople working in all aspects ofpoultry in order to have good qualityproducts and thus decrease lossesrelated to poultry management atfarm level.

JVMA-President (Dr N. Loubani) introducedJVPA as the first specialised veterinaryassociation for poultry veterinarians inJordan. He acknowledged the efforts of allJVPA colleagues especially Dr Al-Natour andhe congratulated all members for being abranch of the WVPA. He also added thatJVPA will get all possible support fromJVMA.

The Minister of Agriculture (Dr Akef Al-Zoubi) congratulated the launch of the JVPAat this important conference and he called allrelated agencies to cooperate with each otherfor the benefits of the poultry industry andconsumers.

At the end of the ceremony JVPA announcedAward Certificates for poultry veterinarianswho have served the poultry industry for 30years or more. Dr Al-Natour (JVPA-President)requested Dr Akef Al-Zoubi (Minister ofAgriculture) to distribute the certificates forJVPA colleagues.

The JVPA Scientific program included twohours on avian influenza and a one hourdiscussion.

The first lecture was given by Dr M. Q Al-Natour, entitled Influenza viruses in birdsand humans. The second lecture was given by

Dr N. M. Ammarin, entitled Avian influenzacontrol in poultry farms. Dr Waleed Al-Salehwas Mediator.

Mohammad Q. Al-NatourCorresponding Secretary of WVPA Jordan

Israel

The 49th Annual Convention was held in theRamada Hotel Jerusalem in March 2014. MostWVPA members attended the conference.This is a meeting of farmers, scientists,veterinarians and those from thepharmaceutical industry, etc.

Dr Alfonso Claudio and Dr Kirk C. Klasingfrom the USA were most welcomed overseasguests. The subjects concerning poultryhealth, disease prevention and new findingsare always of great interest to the audience.

Several topics were presented: l The Evolutionary History of Avianinfluenza H9N2 in Israel during the years2000-2012. I. Davidson and researchers from ISZV, Italy-Giovani Cattoli presented the AIV H9N2revolutionary history phylodynamics, byanalysing 123 Israeli and 180 internationalAIV H9N2 HA sequences. The studyevidenced the five introduction groups originas I, ll and III in the Far East, introduction IVlinked to H9N2 Egypt, Jordan and Lebanonstrains, while Israeli group V viruses linkedto Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulfcountry viruses. The dynamic phylogenie alsorevealed the molecular evolution rate, thevirus molecular dock and the geneticdiversity skyline plot. The study waspublished in Virus Genes 457-463 2014.l Is there vertical transmission of NDV? The presence of velogenic NDV in allsegments of the reproductive tract atvaccinated broiler breeders 26 weeks old,using qReal time RT PCR. This methodpermitted the detection of small amounts ofvirus that would not kill the embryo. Thisfinding may suggest that the virus can betransferred with the embryonated egg in theprocess of laying and then be spread with thehatched chicks (Ruth Hadas).l The meaning of transmitting ND virusfrom urban wild birds to chickens. The objective of the research was todetermine the significance of virus infectionin poultry originating from urban wild birds,

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Branch reports

From left to right: Dr Al-Natour (JVPA

President), Dr Refaey (MoA),His Excellency Dr Al-Zoubi

(Minister of Agriculture), andDr Loubani (JVMA President)

The opening ceremony ofthe Jordanian Veterinary

Poultry Association

like pigeons and raptors, occasionallyentering poultry premises. The question waswhether the virulent virus in the wild birdswill also keep the virulence in chickens.

The conclusion is that the pigeon strain ofND virus will not risk chickens in the firstinfection cycles, while findings of additionalinoculation cycles will complete the picture.In comparison, NDV from raptors causessevere disease in chickens already in the firstinfection cycle (A. Lublin).l Summary of 20 years of salmonellavaccination in poultry breeder flocks inIsrael.1994 was the beginning of a monitoring andcontrol program in breeder flocks. Theprogram included periodic sampling ofchickens, swabs, environment improvementsand biosecurity. Vaccination was introducedin to breeder flocks in 1994 againstSalmonella typhimurium and in 1999 againstSalmonella enteritidis.

In 2011 a great number of Salmonellainfantis was isolated from humans, whichwas the reason to start S. infantis vaccinationin breeder flocks. A significant decrease in thenumber of the infected breeder flocks by thethree serotypes of salmonella was revealed asa result of vaccination (E. Berman).

Dr R. Rachel BockCorresponding secretary of WVPA Israel

Macedonia

In the last year four outbreaks of IBDV haveoccurred in Macedonia. Three of them were inbackyard poultry and one was detected on acommercial pullet farm. All three outbreaksin backyard poultry are situated in thevillages belonging to a single epidemiologicalunit and in proximity to the parent stock farmand hatchery which have not reported anysigns associated to IBDV. Sequencingdemonstrated that all of the isolates werevery virulent IBDVs.

Infectious bronchitis is a constant threat tothe poultry industry. It has been detected infarms which have undergone a fullvaccination schedule. The majority of thefarms are only vaccinating with H-12O. Afterdetection of nephropathogenic QX in severalfarms from 2011 onwards, farms are slowlyshifting towards heterologous vaccinationwith the addition of 4/91 strain.

On the production note it is worth sayingthat the Macedonian poultry market isheavily dependent on broiler meat importsreaching up to 95% of the domestic needs.Several attempts to establish a viabledomestic producer have failed and thepossible reasons are lack of integration in thebusiness, reliance on import of feedstuff andconsumer awareness.

Prof. Dr Aleksandar Dodovski Corresponding Secretary of WVPA Macedonia

Sweden

A course in poultry pathology was held inJune, 2014 at the National Veterinary Institute(SVA) in Uppsala, Sweden.

The lectures, which covered areas such asprinciples of disease diagnoses, aviananatomy, avian inflammation and poultrypathology based on aetiologies as well as onpathological organ changes and symptoms,were given by Professor Shivaprasad fromthe University of California, Davis, USA.

There were approximately 20 courseparticipants with different backgrounds inpoultry, coming from the National FoodAgency, private poultry companies,laboratories performing necropsies andclinical practice. The Swedish branch ofWVPA would like to thank ProfessorShivaprasad for coming and sharing hisknowledge.

Helena Eriksson Corresponding Secretary of WVPA Sweden

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Branch reports

DAY 1 Thursday 11th September 2014

7:30 Registration Opens

8:50 Opening Ceremony

9:00Key aspects to be considered on the monitoring and testing of flocks vaccinated withrHVT-ND - Roberto Soares, Ceva, Malaysia

9:30Vaccination and monitoring of breeder flocks is essential for an effective control ofchicken infectious anaemia - Haraldo Toro, Auburn University, USA

10:00An integrated approach of serologic and molecular diagnostics for the control of Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma synoviae - Pablo Lopez, IDEXX, USA

10:30 Break

11:00Anticoccidial sensitivity test (AST): An effective tool when designing anticoccidial programs for optimising broiler performance - Chavalit Piriyabenjawat, Zoetis, Thailand

11:30Update on the practical use of PCR tools for poultry disease diagnostics - Stephane Lemiere, Merial, France

12:00 Lunch

1:15

2nd Asian Avian Pathology Lecture(Introduced by Prof. Richard Jones, Chairman of the Houghton Trust)"Infectious bursal disease: prophylaxis, detection and monitoring" Prof. Dr. Md. Rafiqul Islam, DVM, MSc (VetSc), PhD, AvH Fellow, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

2:00Monitoring Gumboro vaccines take - field and laboratory approach - Roberto Soares, Ceva, Malaysia

2:30Monitoring of broiler intestinal health to improve performance - Koen de Gussem, Huvepharma, Belgium

3:00 Serology applied to preventive avian medicine - Pablo Lopez, IDEXX, USA

3:30 Break

4:00Testing and monitoring of mycotoxins in poultry - breakthroughs of a new era - Randy L. Payawal, Biomin, Philippines

4:30Comparative performance of commercial Mycoplasma gallisepticum and M. synoviaeantibody ELISA kits and haemagglutination inhibition - Dan T. Domingo, Zoetis, USA

5:00Diseases of domestic ducks: diagnosis and control - Thaweesak Songserm, Kasetsart University, Thailand

5:30Vaccination in broilers as a tool for integrated coccidiosis control - Koen de Gussem, Huvepharma, Belgium

6:00 –7:00

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Faculty of Veterinary Science, Bangladesh Agricultural University

and will be on the topic of:

Infectious bursal disease: prophylaxis, detection

& monitoringThis lecture is supported by the Houghton Trust and will

be introduced by their chairman, Prof. Richard Jones.

Bangkok, Thailand is the venue for the 2ndWVPA Asia Meeting as it is central to theregion, is well served by a variety of airlines,has a range of accommodation types and hasan active branch of the WVPA that is keen tobe involved in the event.

The first meeting was held in 2012 andattracted over 140 attendees, even though 80-100 had been budgeted for! The 2012 meetingcomprised technical presentations from thefour commercial companies who supportedthe event and very positive feedback wasreceived.

As a result of this success, it was decided tohold the 2nd WVPA Asia Meeting over twodays – one day for technical papers from

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DAY 2 Friday 12th September 2014

8:45Potent probiotics isolated from organic layer and native chicken faeces - Niwat Chansiripornchai, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

9:00Monitoring viral pathogens in poultry dust - Stephen Walkden-Brown, University of New England, Australia

9:15Monitoring of fowl adenoviruses using environmental samples - Robin R. Achari, University of New England, Australia

9:30Methods to detect viable viral pathogens in poultry litter and implications for diseasemonitoring - AFM Fakhrul Islam, University of New England, Australia

9:45Immunopathological effects of Ochratoxin A in broiler chicks and its amelioration withBaker’s Yeast - M. Kashif Saleemi, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan

10:00Infectious bursal disease virus influences the transcription of chicken γc and γc familycytokines during infection - Yongping Wu, Zhejiang A&F University, China

10:15 Break

10:45Age, flock size, vaccines, biosecurity and seasonal effect on ND antibody level after vaccination in layers – Md Jalal Uddin Sarder, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

11:00Characterization of novel nanoparticle based vaccine for avian influenza - Mazhar Khan, University of Connecticut, USA

11:15Ultrasensitive electrochemical immunoassay for avian influenza subtype H5 usingnanocomposite - Jiaoling Huang, Guangxi Veterinary Research Institute, China.

11:30Determination of shedding profile of infectious bursal disease virus in faeces of infectedSPF chickens and association with levels in host tissues, dust and litter - J.M.K.G.K. Jayasundara, University of New England, Australia

11:45Prevalence of colibacillosis in chickens in greater Mymensingh district in Bangladesh - Minara Khatun, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

12:00 Lunch

1:00Immunoreactivity of nonstructural protein 5 of infectious bronchitis virus - Min Liao, Zhejiang University, China

1:15Detection and isolation of H7N9 avian influenza virus and its prevalence in Eastern China- Yang Yu, Zhejiang University, China

1:30Detection of genotype VII Newcastle disease virus using TaqMan real-time PCR for diagnosis and vaccine efficacy - Sheau Wei Tan, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

1:45Diversity of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from chickens - Zunita Zakaria, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

2:00Autophagy protects against infection of infectious bursal disease virus - Jiyong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China.

2:00Detection of emerging Campylobacter species in broiler chickens - Saleha Abdul Aziz, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

2:30 Break

3:00 WVPA Matters - Nigel Horrox, Vice President WVPA

3:15Prevalence, characteristics and antibiogram study of salmonella isolated from poultryand poultry environment - Ariful Islam, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Bangladesh

3:30Assessment of Infectious laryngotracheitis virus excretion from commercial chickens byqPCR - Parimal Roy, Tamilnadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, India

3:45Occurrence of variant infectious bronchitis virus (QX-like and 793/B strain) in PeninsularMalaysia - Dr David Choe, Asia-Pacific Special Nutrients Sdn., Malaysia

4:00Expression and polyclonal antibody preparation of chicken UBC9 - Jia Lu, Zhejiang Uni-versity, China

4:15Development of indirect ELISA and autogenous vaccine for control Inclusion body hepatitis in chickens - Thaweesak Songserm, Kasetsart University, Thailand

4:30 Close

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commercial supporters and the other day forsubmitted papers from the region. Thenumber of commercial supporters doubledand there was an excellent response to therequest for papers from the region, as can beseen from the programme which is on thisdouble page spread.

Two financial support packages have beenoffered to each WVPA Branch in the region toassist younger or financially restricteddelegates to attend the meeting. Thesepackages include free registration to the eventplus $US250 to help with travel andaccommodation costs – a total value of $449each. The responsibility for choosing therecipients has been delegated to BranchOfficers.

Registrations are already starting to come infor the 2014 Meeting and it is very pleasing tosee that enquiries have been received fromEurope and America! Once again this meetingwill be hosting the prestigious Asian AvianPathology Lecture (see inset).

Also occurring will be the presentation ofthe WVPA-Zoetis Young Poultry VeterinarianAward. Previous winners have come fromNorth America and Europe. It will beinteresting to see whether this year’s winnercomes from a different continent!

The 2nd WVPA Asia Meeting has anexcellent programme and we are lookingforward to a strong turnout – will you bethere?

WVPA would like to record its thanks to the various companies who are

supporting the 2nd WVPA Asia Meeting.

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In and around Cape Town

Looking over the Waterfront to Table Mountain Seals frequent the Waterfront

Three political greats of the ‘new’ South Africa The Waterfront Eye

A good way to see around Cape Town The easy way up Table Mountain!

Wildlife on Table Mountain The Sea Aquarium is well worth a visit

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7-11th SeptemberThe 19th World Veterinary PoultryAssociation Congress will be hosted by theSouth African Branch of the WVPA in CapeTown, South Africa from 7-11th September2015.

To kick off the home run towards thecongress in 2015, a site visit was recentlyarranged for the Local Organising Committeein Cape Town and they were joined by NigelHorrox, François-Xavier Le Gros, ExecutiveOfficers of the WVPA, and Prof Richard Jones.

Everyone was able to experience variousoptions for pre-and post-congress tours, aswell as accompanying persons’ programmesin and around Cape Town.

The Cape Town International ConferenceCentre, the venue for the congress, wasvisited as were some hotels close to theCongress venue. There was a positivefeedback on all aspects of the host city andcongress venue.

In particular, they were impressed with theCape Town Waterfront, which is just a 10minute walk away from the Congress Centre,and its impressive range of qualityrestaurants and bars!

The official launch of WVPA 2015sponsorship/support opportunities tookplace on 10th June 2014 during AVI Africa atthe Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg. Thisevent was also attended by the internationalguests and representatives of potentialsponsors and exhibitors.

Much good discussion and work went intothe draft scientific programme with thevisiting WVPA representatives and the resultsare currently being reviewed by the 15members of the Scientific Committee.

The facility for submission of abstracts forpresentations and posters will open on theWVPA Congress website on 1st September2014 and will close on 15th January 2015.Please submit an abstract and submit it early!

The scientific programme will concentrateon various avian diseases and will includethe latest scientific advances withinformation and interpretations relevant tothose working in the field bothinternationally and locally.

There will be at least a dozen differentthemes, each preceded by a keynote lecture,presented by an authority in the field. Aninteresting feature of the programme will be asession dedicated to diseases of ratites.

Once again the Congress will host the AvianPathology Lecture and the presentations ofthe Bart Rispens Award (supported by MSD)and the 2015 WVPA-Zoetis Young PoultryVeterinarian Award.

“We are on schedule for WVPAC2015,” localorganiser Dr Hannes Swart told Aerosols,“and we look forward to our poultrycolleagues from around the world joining usfor a congress to remember. They will also beable to experience African culture, wildlife,cuisine and wines first hand at a time of theyear when international flights andaccommodation charges in South Africa areboth very reasonable.”

Local Organising Committee,WVPAC 2015

WVPA Congress 2015

Penguin watch at theBoulders

Global Officers withmembers of the SouthAfrican LOC at the Cape Town Waterfront

Aerosols • 14July 2014

WVPA newsNew Iraq branch of WVPA

A new WVPA branch has recently beencreated in Iraq with 37 members under theleadership of Dr Yasser Jamal Jameel. TheIraqi Branch has provisional membershipuntil it receives official approval in 2015 at theCape Town Congress.

This group already has activities ineducation in veterinary science and theorganisation of local symposia across Iraq incooperation with veterinary colleges,veterinary clinics and poultry companies. Forexample, they provide educational trips forveterinary students to poultry farms,hatcheries and feed manufacturers so theycan see poultry systems and management.

Dr Yasser works in the field of poultryhygiene at the Veterinary College of theUniversity of Karbala. He is a veterinarianand holds a PhD from Baghdad University.

Dr Yasser has also been the President of theWPSA branch in Iraq since 2013 and head ofthe Veterinary Syndicate in Karbala.

WVPA Europe Meeting

The first WVPA Europe Meeting was held on21st May at VIV Europe in Utrecht, Holland.The chairman for the afternoon was VicePresident Prof Hafez Hafez and the subject ofthe meeting was ‘Emerging Avian HealthThreats’.

Following the chairman’s opening address,the first presentation was given by ProfessorRichard Jones from the UK on the threat to

Europe of African and Middle Eastern strainsof IB. He was followed by Professor Dr TimmHarder from the OIE-FAO ReferenceLaboratory for Avian Influenza in Germanywho considered recent developments in ourunderstanding of avian influenza and hereviewed the avian influenza threat(s) toEurope. Prof. Paul Barrow of the Universityof Nottingham in the UK then consideredfood safety threats including salmonella andcampylobacter. The afternoon was roundedoff by Paul McMullin from Poultry HealthServices in the UK who spoke on the potentialthreats associated with antibiotic resistance.

In his closing comments, Vice PresidentNigel Horrox thanked the speakers, ProfessorHafez for being an excellent chairman, andVNU Exhibitions for covering the costs of themeeting for WVPA.

Members can download copies of thepresentations from the WVPA website(www.wvpa.net).

VIV Oeuvre Award

At the recent VIV Europe, a leading poultry/livestock event and international show, vicepresident Nigel Horrox, received a specialVIV Oeuvre Award in recognition of hiscontribution to the international developmentof the poultry sector.

Nigel has worked with poultry sincegraduating in veterinary medicine from theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1976. In additionto his expertise in poultry health, food safetyand microbiology, Nigel worked widely as apoultry veterinarian in the UK until a decadeor so ago and he has been a consultant topoultry companies in Asia and Africa.

He is vice president of WVPA and he ownsand runs Positive Action Publications Ltd, thecompany which publishes, among its titles,International Hatchery Practice andInternational Poultry Production.

Pictured left to right are PaulMcMullin, Timm Harder,

Hafez Hafez (chairman forthe meeting), Paul Barrow

and Richard Jones.

The 10th 'Hafez' International Symposium on Turkey Diseaseswas recently held at The Institute of PoultryDiseases at the Free University in Berlin,Germany and was organised by the German branch of the WVPA.

A full report of this meeting will be published in the next issue of Aerosols.

A two day training course entitled ‘Diagnosisof Poultry Diseases through ModernDiagnostic Techniques’ was organised by thePakistan branch of the World VeterinaryPoultry Association in collaboration with theDiagnostic Laboratory, Department ofPathology, University of AgricultureFaisalabad in April.

Different veterinary schools, poultryresearch institutes, diagnostic laboratories,private poultry companies, poultry breedingcompanies, extension poultry veterinariansattended this important training course.Overall, more than 150 professionals attendedthe technical sessions.

This training course was jointly sponsoredby Ghazi Brothers Pakistan and Intervet,Pakistan. Both technical, inaugural andconcluding sessions were held at the Facultyof Veterinary Science, University ofAgriculture Faisalabad (UAF). Both trainingsessions were arranged in the DiagnosticLaboratory, Department of Pathology, UAF.

These training sessions provided anopportunity to the participants for hands ontraining. All the participants took part in thepractical training which included titermonitoring through HA-HI, ELISA and PCRand also necropsy examination. Renownedpoultry health professionals from differentnational organisations were invited speakers.

The laboratory training was provided by theteaching staff of the Department of Pathology.The different topics covered during technicalsessions included Newcastle disease, chickeninfectious anaemia, mycotoxins, IB-variants,avian lymphoid leucosis and serologicalmonitoring of poultry flocks etc.

The participants were also provided with anopportunity to freely interact with thespeakers/experts and to discuss with them

the problems they face. On the first day of thetraining course the first annual meeting of theWVPA Pakistan branch was also organisedwith more than 50 national branch membersattending. The meeting was coordinated byDr Muhammad Kashif Saleemi, NationalBranch Secretary of WVPA Pakistan and waspresided over by Dr Hanif Nazir Ch.

The president, Dr M. Kashif Saleemi,presented the successful story of the creationof the WVPA Pakistan branch. At the start ofthe meeting, one minute’s silence wasobserved in honour of the late Prof. Dr TrevorBagust (President of WVPA). Hiscommitment and services rendered to thepoultry/veterinary profession in general andto the WVPA were noted. All the branchmembers recorded their condolences on thesad demise of Prof. Bagust.

Dr Kashif told members that Dr Bagust,Prof. Hafez, Dr Xavier Le Gros and NigelHorrox extended their cooperation formaking the Pakistan Branch of WVPA active.

In the concluding session of the meeting DrHanif Nazir Ch. (President) put on record theefforts of Dr Kashif for organising the branchand its activities.

He encouraged the members to make thebranch active throughout the year. He alsoasked members to participate in the Asianmeeting of the WVPA.

At the end a certificate of membership wasdistributed to the branch members by DrHanif Nazir in the company of Prof. Dr AhrarKhan, founder member of WVPA Pakistanand Chairman of the Department ofPathology UAF (Chief Organiser of thetraining course).

Dr Muhammad Kashif Saleemi,Corresponding Secretary of WVPA Pakistan

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Training course in Pakistan

Participants of the NationalTraining Course onDiagnosis of PoultryDiseases through ModernDiagnostics Techniques heldat the Faculty of VeterinaryScience, UAF, organised bythe Department ofPathology and WVPA,Pakistan

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17 • AerosolsJuly 2014

Bruce R. Charlton

Dr Charlton of Coulterville, CA, died on 26thMay, 2014, following complications fromsurgery. He was 62. Dr Charlton was born inLoup City, NE, which is where he will beinterred alongside his father, uncle and otherrelatives.

He was a Professor of Clinical DiagnosticMicrobiology and Branch Laboratory Chief atthe California Animal Health and Food SafetyLaboratory System (CAHFS), TurlockLaboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine,University of California, Davis (UCD).

Following his honourable service in the USArmy, Dr Charlton received his DVM fromColorado State University. He began hiscareer as a Veterinary Medical Officer in theSacramento laboratory of the VeterinaryLaboratory Services, California Department ofFood and Agriculture. When UCD assumedresponsibility for the State’s laboratorysystem, Dr Charlton transferred to the

CAHFS Turlock Laboratory. He was adiplomate of both the American College ofVeterinary Microbiologists and the AmericanCollege of Poultry Veterinarians.

He served on the Board of Directors of theAmerican Association of Avian Pathologists(AAAP). Dr Charlton was one of the firstpersons to characterise Ornithobacteriumrhinotracheale.

In addition, he developed molecular tests forthe diagnosis of mycoplasma and salmonella.These tests allowed Dr Charlton to workclosely with the California poultry industry.For this he was named Poultry Scientist of theYear by the Pacific Egg and PoultryAssociation in 2007.

He is an author of more than 50 publicationsin refereed journals, four book chapters andmore than 80 abstracts. Notably, he was theeditor in-charge of the 4th, 5th and 6theditions of AAAP’s best-selling publication,the Avian Disease Manual.

Dr Charlton is survived by his wife, twosons, and three grandchildren.

Obituary

Bruce R. Charlton

Houghton Trust travel grants are awarded toyoung scientists, aged up to 35, working onavian diseases.

They are awarded to assist such researchersin attending relevant scientific meetings ormaking short visits to appropriatelaboratories in countries other than their own.Since funds are limited, it is unlikely that thefull amount required can be offered, soapplicants are encouraged to seek additionalfunding from other sources.

Judy Bettridge is a recent recipient of suchan award. She obtained her veterinary degreeat Liverpool University, UK. After a few yearsin general practice, she returned to Liverpoolto take her Masters degree in veterinaryinfection and disease control and is now inthe final stages of completing her PhDentitled ‘Epidemiology and ecology ofinfectious diseases in Ethiopian villagechickens’. Her doctorate was funded by a UKResearch Council and the UK GovernmentDepartment for International Developmentwithin a bigger project: Chicken Health for

Development. This is a collaboration betweeninstitutions in the UK and Ethiopia,investigating the socio-economics, geneticsand disease constraints to village chickenproduction.

Dr J. K. A. Cook, Secretary, The Houghton Trust Ltd,

Jane@hough.waitrose.com

www.houghtontrust.org.uk

Houghton Trust travel grants

Judy BettridgeRecipient of the HoughtonTrust Travel Award

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July20-23 – 10th International Symposiumon Marek’s Disease and Avian HerpesvirusesEast Lansing, Michigan, USAWebsite: www.cvm.msu.edu/alumni-friends/marek-symposium

27-29 – American Veterinary Medical Association and American Association of Avian PathologistsDenver, Colorado, USAWebsite: www.avma.org

September11-12 – 2nd WVPA Asia MeetingBangkok, ThailandWebsite: www.wvpa.net

October5-6 – American College of Poultry Veterinarians (ACPV) WorkshopMaryland, USAWebsite: www.acpv.info

6-8 – National meeting on PoultryHealth, Processing and Live ProductionMaryland, USAWebsite: www.dpichicken.org/events

November7-10 – 17th National Conference of Chinese Association of Avian PathologistsGuangzhou City, China

11-14 – EuroTierHannover, GermanyWebsite: www.eurotier.com

January 201527-29 – IPPEAtlanta, Georgia, USAWebsite: www.ippexpo.com

March 201510 – Incubation2015 & Avian Gut Health2015Bangkok, ThailandWebsite: www.positiveaction.co.uk

11-13 – VIV AsiaBangkok, ThailandWebsite: www.viv.net

22-25 – 64th Western Poultry DiseaseConference (WPDC) American College ofPoultry Veterinarians (ACPV) WorkshopCalifornia, USAWebsite: www.conferences.ucdavis.edu/wpdc

July 201510-14 – American Veterinary Medical Association and American Association of Avian PathologistsBoston, Massachusetts, USAWebsite: www.avma.orgwww.aaap.info

September 20156-11 – XIX Congress of the World Veterinary Poultry Association (WVPA)Cape Town, South AfricaWebsite: www.wvpa.net/congress.php

October 201512-14 – National Meeting on PoultryHealth, Processing and Live ProductionMaryland, USAWebsite: www.dpichiken.org/events

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