Welcome to the FMD Reference Laboratories Information System - ReLaIS

FMD outbreaks reported to FAO/OIE during 2008 and identified at country level (although some may be highly localised)

Who are we?

The Network is a formal collaboration of designated OIE and FAO reference laboratories and collaborating centres that work on foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Our overarching aims are:

•  to improve surveillance of the global distribution and emergence of FMD virus strains and on the appropriateness of different vaccine strains for use or for retention in banks in different regions; and,
• to provide expertise and advice to OIE, FAO and other international disease control agencies as well as assistance to national FMD Reference Laboratories.

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What can you find here?

This is a free site that provides current information on FMD to the public and is the centre for information exchange for the network. You can search the database for outbreaks or sequences and map the results. You can also get current information on the world status of FMD by visiting the websites of reference laboratories, get news via the FMD News website, and an appreciation of ongoing research.

 See

• About the network
• About FMD
• Query our online databases for outbreak and other data
• Match sequences that you have generated to reference sequences
• The IAH virus pages including FMDV
• FMD News, UCD, USA
• GFRA
  

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— The FMD Network Team