WOAH/FAO Reference Laboratories and experts for avian influenza

Dr Yohannes Berhane

Canadian Food Inspection Agency, National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease

1015 Arlington Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 3M4

CANADA

Dr Hualan Chen

National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory, Animal Influenza Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, CAAS

427 Maduan Street, Harbin 150001

CHINA (People’s Republic of)

Email: chenhualan@caas.cn

Dr Timm C. Harder

Federal Research Centre for Virus Diseases of Animals (BFAV), Institute of Diagnostic Virology

Boddenblick 5a, 17493 Greifswald – Insel Riems

GERMANY

Email: timm.harder@fli.de

Prof. Ashley Banyard

Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)

New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3NB

Weybridge

UNITED KINGDOM

Email: Ashley.Banyard@apha.gov.uk

Dr Frank Wong

CSIRO, Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP)

5 Portarlington Road, Private Bag 24, Geelong 3220, Victoria

AUSTRALIA

Email: frank.wong@csiro.au

Dr Mia Torchetti

National Veterinary Services Laboratories

USDA, APHIS, Veterinary Services

P.O. Box 844, Ames, IA 50010

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Email: Mia.Kim.Torchetti@usda.gov

Dr Isabella Monne

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Laboratorio Virologia

Via Romea 14/A, 35020 Legnaro, Padova

ITALY

Email: imonne@izsvenezie.it

Dr Dilmara Reischak

Laboratório Nacional Agropecuário em Campinas – Lanagro-SP

Unidade de Sanidade Aviária

Rua Raul Ferrari, s/n°

Jardim Santa Marcelina

CEP 13100-105

Campinas SP

BRASIL

Email: dilmara.reischak@agricultura.gov.br

Dr Yoshihiro Sakoda

Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Department of Disease Control

Kita-18, Nishi-9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0818

JAPAN

Email: sakoda@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

Dr Chakradhar Tosh

National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases (NIHSAD), Indian Council of Agricultural Research

Anand Nagar, Bhopal 462021, Madhya Pradesh

INDIA

Email: ctosh@hsadl.nic.in; chakradhar.tosh@gmail.com

Dr Youn-Jeong Lee

Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency, Ministry of Agriculture, Forest and Rural Affairs

177 Hyeoksin 8-ro

Gimcheon-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do 39660

KOREA (REP. OF)

Email: leeyj700@korea.kr

Dr Abdelsatar Arafa

Reference Laboratory for Veterinary Quality Control on Poultry Production

Animal Health Research Institute

Agriculture research centre

Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation 7 Nadi el Seidst Dokki

Giza

EGYPT

Email: araby85@hotmail.com

Dr Viktor N. Irza

Head, National Reference Laboratory for avian influenza and Newcastle disease

Federal State-Financed Institution

Federal Centre for Animal Health (FGBI “ARRIAH”)

Vladimir 60090

RUSSIA

Email: irza@arriah.ru

Epidemiology, Training and Control of Emerging Avian Diseases

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Viale dell’Universita 10, 35020 Legnaro, Padova

ITALY

E-mail: dirsan@izsvenezie.it ; smarangon@izsvenezie.it

Research on Emerging Avian Diseases

Southeast Poultry and Research Laboratory (SEPRL), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA),

Agricultural Research Service, 934 College Station Road, Athens, Georgia 30605

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

E-mail: david.suarea@usda.gov

Avian influenza/ Research on Emerging Avian Diseases

The Pirbright Institute

Ash Road, Pirbright, Surrey, GU 24 0NF

UNITED KINGDOM

E-mail: Ian.Brown@pirbright.ac.uk