The Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) launched on Sunday the 12th till the 15th of November 2017, a training course on ''Designing epidemiological surveys and data analysis for Rift Valley Fever disease''. The participants were 21 veterinarians from the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation of Egypt.

The training program included theoretical and practical lectures on the following topics; epidemiological surveys, how systems are designed for Rift Valley Fever disease, definition of the pathological condition of the survey, types of data, how they are treated and presented using Eucalyptus, identifying samples for epidemiological survey and size calculation using OPEN EPI-EPIINFO-OPITOOL , sensitivity epidemiological surveys (theoretical and practical), how to report on them and finally assessment of survey systems and how to monitor the surveillance system and surveys.