ARRIAH: BETWEEN TWO CENTURIES
The paper features activities of the FGI «All-Russia Research Institute for Animal Health» - FGBI «Federal Centre for Animal Health» (FGBI «ARRIAH») between the XX-XXI centuries. In this period, the Centre took much effort for diagnosis and development of methods aimed at control of foot-and-mouth disease, avian influenza and other infectious diseases of cattle, small ruminants, pigs and poultry. The early XXIst century was marked by energetic efforts made for the improvement of tools for animal disease agent identification involving molecular biology achievements: new highly efficient vaccines were formulated and systems of anti-epidemic measures were developed that contributed to FMD and rinderpest eradication and improvement of animal health status in the country. FGBI «ARRIAH» achieved recognition both nationally and internationally. The Centre enjoys the statuses of the OIE Regional Reference Laboratory for Foot-and-Mouth Disease, OIE Collaborating Centre for Diagnosis and Control of Animal Diseases for Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Transcaucasia, OIE Reference Laboratory for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Newcastle Disease. The paper also demonstrates current achievements of the Federal Centre for Animal Health.