CaribVET Tick & Tick borne diseases working group meeting Fort Collins, 1-2 October 2009

1. CaribVET Tick & Tick borne diseases working group meetingFort Collins, 1-2 October 2009

2. The Caribbean animal health network: CaribVET • Objectives • Regional approach of diseases surveillance and control • Collaboration, communication and exchange of information and data • Development of veterinary diagnostic laboratories • Reinforcement of national surveillance networks • Partnership • Veterinary services of 25 countries or territories • Diagnostic laboratories, research institutes (CIRAD, CENSA), universities (UWI) • Regional/international organizations: CARICOM, FAO, OIE, USDA, IICA, PAHO • Strategies • Meetings, working groups • Trainings and skills building • Expertise • Development of regional tools for information and data exchange

3. Research questions Access to the field Research (genomics, diversity, diagnostic, control, epidemiology) Surveillance Regional strategies Improve surveillance quality + notification Scientific and technical networks Institutional network (CVOs) Interaction between surveillance and research

4. CaribVET Coordination unit Steering Committee Regional level Diagnostic & quality assurance WG Epidemiology WG Salmonellosis WG Avian Influenza WG Rabies WG Tick & TBDs WG Classical swine fever WG Regional and international organizations National level Veterinary services Private sector Diagnostic laboratories Research institutes & universities Working Groups (WG) Institutional/political adoption by 20 Caribbean CVOs, international organizations and CARICOM, April 2006

5. CaribVET working groups • Composition • Caribbean specialists having recognized competence and/or experience in the targeted thematic • 10-12 members • a chair responsible for coordination, follow-up and report to the steering committee • Terms of reference • assigned to each group • develop regional disease surveillance protocol, regional communication system or data management, diagnostic, training… • can be requested by the steering committee  validation  recommendations for their use • Methods: • remote work (collaborative working tool on Internet) • work meetings (chair can invite external members) • expertise carried out by members of the group • coordination unit of CaribVET ensures the effective operation • can request information or data from the member countries

6. Tick & Tick borne diseases working group • Terms of reference • Regional expertise on Ticks and Tick borne diseases (diagnostic, surveillance, control). • Development of surveillance strategies and integrated pest management • Composition (1st September 2009) • Thierry Lefrancois (CIRAD Guadeloupe) (Chair) • Zakia Goodwin (Antigua) • Rosina Maitland (Barbados) • Reginald Thomas (Dominica) • Guillaume Gerbier (Guadeloupe) • Philippe Pelonde (Martinique) • Patricia Bartlette (Nevis) • Hector Diaz Collazo (Puerto Rico) • Bethany Bradford / Ayanna Simon (USVI) • Eden Compton / Georges Joseph (St Lucia) • Mervin Butcher (St Marteen) • Lesroy Henry / Tracey Challenger (St Kitts) • Kathian Herbert-Hackshaw (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) • Tom Holt (USA State of Florida) • Thibaud Porphyre (CIRAD Guadeloupe) • Bryan Sanford (Barbados) • Rupert Pegram (Former CAP manager) • Invited to the meeting • IICA participants • Amy Delgado • Maxine Parris-Aaron • USDA participants • Dr. John L. Shaw • Dr. Eric Hoffman • CEAH participants • Susan Maroney • Angela James • Jerome Freier • Steve Weber • Cristobal Zepeda • Cynthia Johnson • Barbara Corso • Alex Thompson • Tom Kasari

7. Specific objectives of this meeting • Describe and evaluate the current surveillance programs in the Caribbean • Define regional strategies for surveillance and control and or Integrated Pest management/ help defining national strategies • Define needs for tools development for surveillance (TickINFO database…) • Define the needs for future research programs • Discuss how to use the developed models of tick population dynamics • List the data required for current and future studies (population dynamics, tick genetics, tick modeling, movements of animals, disease modeling…) • Organize the activities to be developed by the working group for the coming year • Answer to 2008 USAHA parasitic disease resolution: • “The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) requests that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), International Services (IS) and/or Veterinary Services (VS) establish a working group to review successes and failures of the previous tropical bont tick (TBT) control/eradication programs, to review the current status of the TBT in the region, and to develop a strategic plan to address support for and participation in programs for control and/or eradication of the TBT in St. Croix and the Caribbean region over the next 5 to 10 years.”

8. CaribVET Tick & Tick borne diseases working group meetingFort Collins, 1-2 October 2009 • Thursday 1st October 2009 • Morning • Introduction • 8h30-9h00 Welcome and objectives of the meeting (CIRAD and CEAH) • 9h00-9h20 Research Needs for heartwater and TBT (T. Lefrancois) 15 minutes • SURVEILLANCE • 9h20- 9h40 Surveillance Planning and Heartwater/CAP Risk Assessment/Databases (T. Kasari, APHIS:VS:CEAH:NSU) 15 minutes • 9h40-10h10 Coffee break • 10h10-12h00 Presentations on the current surveillance and control programme in the countries/territories – 10 minutes each • Participants: Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Nevis, St Kitts, St Lucia, St Maarten, St Vincent • Afternoon • SURVEILLANCE (continued) • 13h30-14h30 Presentations on the current surveillance and control programme in the countries/territories (continued) – 10 minutes each • Participants: Martinique, Guadeloupe, St Croix, Puerto Rico, Florida • 14h30-15h00 TBT questionnaire results • 15h00-15h30 Coffee Break • 15h30-17h00 Discussion and Recommendations for future surveillance programme: potential surveillance strategies, data collection, databases, GIS and analysis, tick control and the future

9. CaribVET Tick & Tick borne diseases working group meetingFort Collins, 1-2 October 2009 Friday 2nd October 2009 Morning TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASE ANALYSIS AND PERSPECTIVES 8h30-8h50 Presentation on Exotic Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases in Florida (T. Holt, State of Florida) 15 minutes 8h50-9h10 Presentation on CAP analysis (T Lefrançois, CIRAD) 15 minutes 9h10-10h00 Discussion and recommendations: Future statistical study in the region based on presence/absence of ticks at the village level Ecological study: data needed ? Extend the analysis to US islands? 10h00-10h30 Coffee break TICK MODELLING 10h30-11h10 Presentation on Spatial Analysis and Vector-borne Diseases (J. Freier, APHIS:VS:CEAH:CAHIA) 30 minutes 11h10-11h30 Presentation on Habitat suitability models for Three Host Ticks (A. James, APHIS:VS:CEAH:CAHIA) 15 minutes 11h30-11h50 Presentation on Mathematical framework for tick potential presence (T. Porphyre, CIRAD) 15 minutes 11h50-12h30 Discussion: Additional data resources, data input, other analytical Afternoon 14h00-17h00 Presentation on Development of a White Paper Subgroup assignments Next meeting (when, where, other ticks species?)