1st meeting of the TSE subgroup of the Animal Health Network event date: 25 November 2025
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1st meeting of the TSE subgroup of the Animal Health Network event date: 25 November 2025
TSE Surveillance
Meetings: minutes last updated: 26 November 2024
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MEETING MINUTES - 5 November 2024
1th Working Group meeting on TSE surveillance
parameters are dynamically calculated in the background by R, with the resulting values automatically appearing in the 'editing text' within parentheses. Regarding restrictions of the application, Tables and Figures are fixed, cannot be edited. Then, a discussion arose about potential differences between the text from the tool and the previous reports, e.g. emphasizing the importance of identifying discrepancies regarding a country's compliance status regarding the minimum testing requirements for TSE surveillance in small ruminants.
2) The feedback received on the TSE report from the TSE Network members was discussed. The main results of the survey used to collect feedback was presented (e.g, try to avoid repetition of same data/info in different report sections, historical data should be definitely reported, subdivide the main sections into subsection to easily retrieve info of interest). It was suggested to replace, if and where possible, Tables with Plot, Figures, Maps, options that are visually more effective and maintain the Tables in the appendix.
3) The section on the assessment was reviewed. The discussion focused in particular on the maps that are currently in the appendix, (including how numbers/values should be displayed); on the spatial description of samples/cases (data are described at country level); on the lack of data related to the establishment of origin of the cases; on the possibility to separate results for classical scrapie and atypical scrapie; on the proposal to use the population data from EUROSTAT in some maps.
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