2017 Mar: OFFLU Avian Influenza Virus Characterisation meeting, FAO HQ, Rome

Presentations

• Proficiency testing exercise – an overview (Frank Wong)
• Vietnam experience with HPAI virus evolution and vaccination (Tung Nguyen)
• Nigeria experience with HPAI virus evolution and vaccination (Clement Meseko)
• Egypt experience with HPAI virus evolution and vaccination (Abdelsatar Arafa)
• Current and future HPAI vaccine technologies – US experience (David Suarez)
• Challenges related to vaccines/diagnosis (Timm Harder)
• Overview of HPAI activity and evolution (Ian Brown)
• China experience with HPAI virus evolution and vaccination (Jiming Chen)
• Indonesia experience with HPAI virus evolution and vaccination (Ernes Andestha and Hendra Wibawa)
• WHO Vaccine Composition Meeting Process (Mia Torchetti and Lidewij Wiersma)
• Options for a poultry vaccine selection process (David Swayne)
• Challenges, options and way forward (Les Sims)
• Focus on H9N2 (David Suarez)
• Enhanced H5 antigenic characterisation (Nicola Lewis)