Monitoring instead of stamping out?

[Coleman]

Are there any signs, that stamping out policy in AI, Swine fever, BT, FMD etc. in large areas will change to stamping out of the infected stock exclusively and monitoring of stocks within the protection and surveillance zone.

Since outbreaks of swine fever there are ambitions even within the FLI to get rid of the extensive stamping out policy of OIE, which effect much more uninfected animals and outrage many consumers, because it's contradicting with animal welfare and - we have the diagnostics, namely PCR, which provide fast results. (all texts in german)

http://www.nicola-timm.de/Schweinepestbekaempfung_NRW.pdf

http://www.animalcare-forum.de/fileadmin/media/gtgl/Veranstaltungen/AVA_Veranstaltung_LZ_Clever_testen.pdf

http://www.westline.de/nachrichten/archiv/index_mono.php?file_name=20070223231143_600_001_414885&jahrgang=2007&stichwort=Keulmethode&&start=0&order=relevanz&ort=%

What say the medias in other countries?

[Coleman]

Re: Monitoring instead of stamping out?

I strongly hope, that the international agencies change this obsolete disease policy of 'mass culling' from the beginning of the last century.

There are some facts which pleads for PCR-Monitoring/circle vaccination vs.traditional Stamping-out policy.
- Some countries spent more money on disease control by mass culling than they were able to save in terms of their lost export trade. As we have seen in the past, many countries imposed an embargo on outbreak countries (e.g. Germany, Italy, GB) anyway. So they won totally nothing. The alternatively vaccinated (possible commercial) poultry in the protection zone could be subsequently restricted to internal trade.
- There are no reason for Trade restrictions and to shock the peoples by beating animal welfare, because today it excists the alternative approach of the much cheaper RT-PCR-Monitoring and circle vaccination and exclusive culling of infected stocks/animals (in analogy to FMD Nr. 59ff.).

Is it naive to believe, that the use of new diagnostics/monitoring approaches can substitute the absolutely not contemporary and horrifying mass culling policy?

At least two scientists (Dr. Beer an Dr. Depner) from FLI would see a progress in PCR-Monitoring in relation to swine fever. Why not with bird flu and other avian diseases?