SCIENTIFIC REPORT OF EFSA AND ECDC EFSA Journal 2012;10(3):2597 The European Union Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic Agents and Food-borne Outbreaks in 2010 ABSTRACT Non-Officially bovine tuberculosis-Free Member States All reporting non-OTF MSs have national eradication programmes for bovine tuberculosis in place. Table TB3 shows the reported results from MSs that did not receive EU co-financing for their eradication programmes in 2010, while Table TB4 shows results from those MSs with eradication programmes cofinanced by the EU. In 2010, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom received EU co-financing (Decision 2009/883/EC 43 as amended by Decision 2010/732/EU 44 ). The proportion of herds under eradication programme in the co-financed areas of non-OTF MSs varied from 72.5 % in Italy to 100 % in Ireland and the United Kingdom (Great Britain and Northern Ireland). Five non-OTF MSs, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta, did not report any infected herds during 2010 (Table TB3). In total, the 13 non-OTF MSs reported 1,700,394 existing bovine herds. In 2010, 1.05 % of them were reported infected with M. bovis or positive for M. bovis compared with 0.77 % in 2009. Compared with 2009, all non-co-financed non-OTF MSs, except Greece and Hungary, reported the same level of infected herds (Table TB3). In Greece and Hungary, the number of infected herds slightly increased in 2010 compared with 2009, but not to the levels seen in 2008, with infected herds in Hungary remaining a rare event (below 0.1 %). Both Northern Ireland and Great Britain started to receive co-financing in 2010. 43 Commission Decision 2009/883/EC of 26 November 2009 approving annual and multi-annual programmes and the financial contribution from the Community for the eradication, control and monitoring of certain animal diseases and zoonoses presented by the Member States for 2010 and following years. OJ L 317, 3.12.2009, p. 3645. 44 Commission Decision 2010/732/EU of 30 November 2010 approving certain amended programmes for the eradication and monitoring of animal diseases and zoonoses for the year 2010 and amending Decision 2009/883/EC as regards the financial contribution by the Union for programmes approved by that Decision. OJ L 315, 1.12.2010, p. 4347. .... the United Kingdom, which in 2010 received co-financing for the first time in many years and had the highest percentages of existing positive herds and herds testing positive (9.53 % and 13.17 %, respectively, in Great Britain and 5.72 % and 6.29 %, respectively, in Northern Ireland) (Table TB4).............. Tuberculosis in wildlife is notifiable in Denmark, Finland, France, Norway, Portugal and Sweden. Portugal reported an extremely high proportion of positive samples in deer (77.8 %), while in the United Kingdom the proportion of positives in deer was very high (52.1 %). M. bovis was reported in wildlife by one OTF MS, France. While a high proportion of positive samples was detected in badgers tested in relation to suspect sampling (33.3 %), M. bovis was detected at low levels in all wildlife categories sampled under routine surveillance (badgers (4.9 %), deer (1.2 %), foxes (1.7 %) and wild boar (2.7 %)). M. bovis was also detected at high levels by three non-OTF MSs in species other than cattle, goats or sheep: Hungary in deer (21.2 %), Ireland in badgers (23.8 %), and the United Kingdom in alpacas (27.8 %), cats (26.7 %) and dogs (22.2 %). In the United Kingdom, the findings of M. bovis in species other than cattle were reported through clinical investigations or from man unknown sampling context (Table TB5). Table TB 5 shows that in wildlife populations M. bovis was reported in badgers (France, Ireland, Spain and the United Kingdom), deer (France, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom), foxes (France and Hungary), mouflons (Spain), wild animals other than badgers, deer (the United Kingdom) and wild boar (France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal and Spain). Thus the occurrence of M. bovis in wildlife and domestic animals other than cattle to a very large extent seems to reflect the status of the MSs regarding freedom from bovine tuberculosis, demonstrating the difficulties MSs might encounter when eradicating this disease from the cattle population, where there is a risk of a natural reservoir of M. bovis being present in wildlife (Table TB5). BADGERS - Number of animals tested- 103, Number of animals POSITIVE – 14 = 13, 6 % wetgiw.gov.pl/files/4632_EU%20Summary%20Trends%20and%20Zoonoses%202010.pdf
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