The Scientific Meeting Report from IABS-EU’ meeting Preparedness and Response to Emerging Veterinary Disease Outbreaks (Brussels, 25–26 March 2025) is now available in Biologicals.
📄 Read the report: https://lnkd.in/eubNf9Rm
🔗 Meeting website: https://lnkd.in/d6f7QTDf
A few key outcomes highlighted in the report include:
🔹Preparedness must distinguish “expected” vs “unexpected” events: for emerging diseases, timelines become critical and vaccination strategies may be uncertain—so planning needs to reflect that reality.
🔹A call to build a collective decision matrix across stakeholders (regulators, industry, veterinarians, surveillance), explicitly factoring in manufacturing feasibility and registrability, including a pre-authorised vaccine concept.
🔹The need for dedicated EU-level funding/incentives for R&D on emerging infectious diseases, as current uncertainty and risk make it hard for industry to invest early—yet early investment is essential for faster access.
🔹Beyond science, the recommendations stress societal, logistical and political timelines—including science-based communication, vaccination logistics at scale, and trade considerations.
🔹On the regulatory side: move toward pragmatic, risk-balanced approaches and EU-wide options to improve vaccine availability both “in peace time” and “in emergency.”
We hope this report helps advance practical solutions to make relevant veterinary vaccines available faster when emergence or crisis strikes.
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