Welcome to website of Prof. MVDr. Václav K o u b a, DrSc. !

Formerly: Chief, Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Roma;
Editor-in-Chief of trilingual worldwide FAO/WHO/OIE Animal Health Yearbook;
Veterinary Public Health Expert, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva; Informatics Expert, International Office of Epizootics (OIE), Paris;
Technical Vice-Director and Chief Epizootiologist of Czechoslovak and Czech State Veterinary Service, Prague;
Professor of Epizootiology, University of Veterinary Sciences, Brno


    WEBSITE IS DEDICATED TO ANIMAL POPULATION HEALTH     



EPIZOOTIOLOGY

  • Epizootiology Definition and Credo
  • Epizootiology Syllabus for undergraduate education and postgraduate training in general epizootiology
  • EPIZOOTIOLOGY TEXTBOOK - Principles and Methods
  • General Epizootiology Instructive Charts (Microsoft PowerPoint presentation)
  • EPIZTEXT: first electronic textbook for education and training in general epizootiology

  • EPIZOO, version 4.0a (2003) - software of comprehensive system of quantitative methods for animal population health/disease analyses and programming (more than three hundred methods); download this zipped file (software.zip) and install locally (start with EPIZOO.EXE file)
  • EPIZOO - comprehensive system of quantitative methods for population health/disease analyses - formulae and procedures
  • EPIZOO - comprehensive system of quantitative methods for population health/disease analyses - examples of practical application
  • Information on EPIZOO software for animal health analysis and disease control programming applicable in MS DOS and MS WINDOWS
  • World Health Organization (WHO): EPIZOO - computer software package to be used in veterinary public health and animal disease control
  • EPIZOO initial distribution by World Health Organization (WHO) (examples in Microsoft PowerPoint presentation)

  • Computerized system of quantitative indicators for animal population health and disease analysis
  • Trilingual list of selected indicators used in epizootiology (Microsoft PowerPoint presentation)
  • Sélection d'une partie des principes épizootiologiques (Microsoft PowerPoint presentation)

  • Methods for analysis of positive economic impact of animal health at population level


    INVISIBLE ENEMY THREAT TO HUMANKIND SURVIVAL !!!

    CONSCIOUSLY ORGANIZED CRIME AGAINST OUR PLANET LIFE !

    MAN-MADE GLOBALIZATION OF ANIMAL INFECTIONS - IRREPARABLE SANITARY AND ECOLOGICAL DISASTERS - REAL BIOTERROR - DEVALUATION OF PREVIOUS GENERATIONS' ACHIEVEMENTS

     OTHER GLOBAL ANIMAL POPULATION HEALTH PROBLEMS

    GLOBAL TABLES OF EPIZOOTIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE REFLECTING THE DETERIORATION OF WORLD ANIMAL POPULATION HEALTH: HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL POPULATION HEALTH PROBLEMS

    PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF EPIZOOTIOLOGY PRINCIPLES AND METHODS - EXAMPLES
    Country level programmes managed by Prof. Dr V. Kouba as a responsible specialist-epizootiologist:

    Programme assisted by Prof. Dr V. Kouba as an international specialist in epizootiology:
    • Eradication of African swine fever in Cuba in 1971 (Texts in: "Instituto Nacional de Medicina Veterinaria: Preliminary report on the African swine fever epizootics in Cuba; methods of diagnosis and control." Rev.sci.tech.Off.int.Epiz.,1971,75 (7/8): 415-437 and Kouba, V., Straka, J.:"Successful eradication of African swine fever in Cuba"(in Czech). Veterinářství, XII, 7: 298-300,1972)

    Regional international programme managed by Prof. Dr V. Kouba as the Chief, Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):
    Global programme of rinderpest eradication (the most important killing disease) with the participation of Prof. Dr V. Kouba when he was the Chief, Animal Health Service, FAO:
     Other example:

  • Eradication of rabies in Czech Republic (Text in: Rev.sci.tech.Off.int.Epiz.,2007,26(3):577-584 or in www.oie.int/boutique/extrait/05-MATOUCH-577-584.pdf)


    BOOK REVIEWS, Acta Veterinaria Brno:

  •          Dictionary of Veterinary Epidemiology (incl. additional comments on "new" veterinary epidemiology)
  •          Foot-and-mouth disease: facing the new dilemmas, OIE
  •          Foodborne disease: a focus for health education, WHO
  •          World Animal Health 2003, OIE
  •          Terrestrial Animal Health Code 2004, OIE
  •          Terrestrial Animal Health Code 2005, OIE
  •          Veterinary services organization, OIE
  •          Veterinary institutions in the developing world, OIE
  •          Emerging zoonoses and pathogens of public health concern, OIE
  •          Biological disaster of animal origin, OIE

    PERSONAL DATA

  • Author's concise curriculum vitae
  •          Detailed curriculum vitae
  •          Curriculum references in international biographical publications - examples (Microsoft PowerPoint presentation)
  •          International nominations and awards - examples (Microsoft PowerPoint presentation)
  • Author's publications and documents (year, title, published)
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    BLOQUE EN EL IDIOMA ESPAŇOL
  • La epizootiología - su desarrollo y enseňanza
  • EPIZOOTIOLOGÍA - principios: figuras instructivas para la presentación (ejemplos en Microsoft PowerPoint)
  • EPIZOOTIOLOGÍA - métodos: figuras instructivas para la presentación (ejemplos en Microsoft PowerPoint)
  • Cursos simulacros prácticos (en el campo) sobre fiebre aftosa (ejemplos en Microsoft PowerPoint)

  • Erradicación global de la peste bovina: primera infección animal erradicada en todo el mundo. El más grande éxito de la medicina veterinaria (Revista electrónica de Veterinaria, Vol. 12, Numero 4, April 2011)

  • Significantes diferencias entre los principios de la epizootiología y de la "nueva" epidemiología veterinaria - armchair epidemiology
        (Significant differences between the principles of the epizootiology and the "new" veterinary epidemiology - armchair epidemiology)

  • EPIZOOT - versión espaňola experimental (1992) precedente de EPIZOO software; descargar el archivo comprimido (epizoot.zip) e instalarlo localmente (empezar con EPIZOOT.EXE file)
  • EPIZOOT - el sistema de los métodos cuantitativos para los análisis de la salud de las poblaciones animales - ejemplos de la aplicación práctica

  • Comercio internacional y la globalización de las enfermedades animales
  • No respetando que 'Historia est vitae magistra' = colonización irreparable de nuestro planeta por las infecciones animales
  • Algunos documentos relacionados con la sanidad animal (ejemplos en Microsoft PowerPoint)
  • Cartas a la Oficina Regional para la América Latina y el Caribe de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), Santiago, Chile

  • Biografia del autor
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    BLOK V ČESKÉM JAZYCE
  • Eradikace bovinní brucelozy v České republice
  • Eliminace bovinní tuberkulozy v České republice
  • Eradikace bovinní tuberkulozy v České republice
  • Československá expedice proti slintavkové vlně v Mongolsku v roce 1964 - I
  • Československá expedice proti slintavkové vlně v Mongolsku v r. 1964 - II
  • Československá veterinární expedice proti tuberkuloze, bruceloze a vozhřivce v Mongolsku
  • Globalizace animálních infekcí a mezinárodní obchod
  • Eradikace animálních infekcí přenosných na člověka a spolupráce veterinární služby s lékařskou službou
  • Čeští veterinární odborníci v celosvětových organizacích
  • Účast na globální eradikaci moru skotu - historicky první animální infekce vymýcené na celém světě
  • Mor skotu - první animální infekce vymýcená na celém světě. Veterinářství 5/2011:289-292
  • Životopis autora
    Website updated on: 5 October 2011




    Example of United Nations' passports of Prof. Dr V. Kouba