Key result
A combination of zoning, movement control, vaccination, and surveillance strategies led to the elimination of foot-and-mouth disease in Kazakhstan, although regional circulation still imposes a risk.
Why the study?
Foot-and-mouth disease control has been problematic and the disease remains prevalent in West and Central Asia, posing challenges to maintaining disease-free status.
A combination of zoning, movement control, vaccination, and surveillance strategies temporarily eliminated FMD in Kazakhstan, highlighting the need for coordinated regional strategies to maintain disease-free status.
Informs regional FMD strategies; leaves open optimal measures to sustain freedom after outbreaks.
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has historically caused far-reaching economic losses to many regions worldwide. FMD control has been problematic, and the disease is still prevalent in many West and Central Asia countries. Here, we review the progress made by Kazakhstan in achieving freedom from FMD and discuss some of the challenges associated with maintaining the FMD-free status, as evidenced by the occurrence of an outbreak in 2022. A combination of zoning, movement control, vaccination, and surveillance strategies led to eliminating the disease in the country. However, the circulation of the FMD virus in the region still imposes a risk for Kazakhstan, and coordinated strategies are ultimately needed to support disease elimination. The results presented here may help design effective pathways to progressively eliminate the disease in West and Central Asia while promoting the design and implementation of regional actions to support FMD control.
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Sultanov et al. (2023) conducted a review in Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). FMD control program (zoning, vaccination, movement control, surveillance) was evaluated. A combination of zoning, movement control, vaccination, and surveillance strategies led to the elimination of foot-and-mouth disease in Kazakhstan, although regional circulation still imposes a risk.
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