Download OIE alerts and animal health

OIE alerts and animal health information now available on your
smartphone or tablet
The new WAHIS Alerts application from the World Organisation for Animal Health
(OIE) delivers alerts and animal health information from the World Animal Health
Information System (WAHIS) direct to your mobile phone or tablet.
Paris, 16 May 2016 - In today’s globalised world, infectious diseases can spread dramatically in a very short space of time.
Early detection of diseases at their animal source is essential to bring them under control quickly, thus protecting both
human and animal populations. To ensure transparency in the animal health field, the 180 Member Countries of the OIE
have an obligation to report the animal disease situation in their territories via the OIE World Animal health Information
System,
WAHIS.
To provide public access to world animal health data, the OIE makes the WAHIS portal available on its website. It gives free
access to data on animal diseases, including zoonoses, arranged according to country, region, month and year.
To increase the ease and speed with which this information can be accessed, the OIE has just launched the WAHIS
Alerts application, which enables disease alerts (immediate notifications) and OIE follow-up reports to be sent direct to your
mobile
phone
or
tablet.
Users can choose to receive only those notifications and reports related to the regions and diseases that interest them, thus
enabling
them
to
keep
up
to
date
with
the
most
relevant
latest
health
news.
The application is free to download from the Android, Apple and Windowsapplications stores.
More
information
about
WAHIS
One of the core missions of the OIE is to guarantee transparency in the animal health situation worldwide, and its 180
Member Countries have a legal obligation to notify the Organisation of any cases of OIE-listed diseases (of which there are
118) and any case of an emerging disease. They must report occurrences of disease in domestic and wild animals, both
terrestrial and aquatic. These notifications help to improve the health and welfare of animals and are a means of ensuring
the
safety
of
international
trade
without
creating
unjustified
sanitary
barriers.
Since 2005, information on OIE-listed diseases in domestic and wild animals has been available to everyone through
theWAHIS interface. This interface can also be used to access other information, such as data on animal populations and
the human and material resources of Veterinary Services and laboratories.