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Guidance

Before You Begin

Important information for farmers

This service is NOT a veterinary diagnosis

SOS Farm is a guidance-only tool. Only a licensed veterinarian can establish a diagnosis and prescribe treatment. If a notifiable disease is suspected, contact your DDPP (French Departmental Directorate for Population Protection) immediately.

What SOS Farm does

  • Species-specific guidance questionnaire based on veterinary references
  • Urgency score: Green (can wait) / Orange (vet within the day) / Red (immediate emergency)
  • Regulatory alert if notifiable disease is suspected
  • Guidance vers votre veterinaire sanitaire, GDS ou DDPP

Notifiable diseases — Mandatory reporting

If you suspect a Category A disease (foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever, highly pathogenic avian influenza...), do not move any animals and immediately contact your DDPP (French Departmental Directorate for Population Protection) or call 3115.

Worried about your animals?
We guide you.

Triage par espece · Score d'urgence · Alerte maladies reglementees · Guidance DDPP / GDS / Veterinaire

349K
Agricultural
holdings
1,121
Exclusive rural
veterinarians
-14.7%
Rural vets decline
in 5 years
46-53%
Travel cost
/ consultation

France has 145,000 livestock farms but only 1,121 exclusively rural veterinarians, a number in freefall. Travel costs represent 46 to 53% of the consultation fee, discouraging calls. Meanwhile, notifiable diseases go undetected.

SOS Farm helps you assess severity in minutes, identify whether symptoms suggest a notifiable disease, and directs you to the right contact: official veterinarian, departmental GDS (French Animal Health Defence Group), or DDPP (French Departmental Directorate for Population Protection).

Choose a species

Which livestock is affected?

Select the species to access the appropriate triage module.

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Cattle
16.5 million head in France
AVAILABLE
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) Tuberculosis Mastitis BVD BRD Ketosis Bluetongue
50+ open datasets · WAHIS · EFSA · ESA Platform
Start triage →
🐎
Equine
~400,000 head in France
AVAILABLE
Colic EHV-1 Equine influenza Laminitis West Nile Cushing
40+ datasets · RESPE · IFCE/SIRE · EquiFluNet
Start triage →
🐑
Sheep & Goats
8 million head
AVAILABLE
PPR Scrapie Parasitism Foot rot Bluetongue Toxoplasmosis
25+ datasets · EFSA Scrapie · FAMACHA
Start triage →
🐷
Swine
~12 million head
AVAILABLE
ASF (African Swine Fever) CSF (Classical Swine Fever) SDRP (PRRS) Swine influenza DEP (PED)
30+ datasets · ASF epidemio · Soundwel vocalisation
Start triage →
🐔
Poultry
~208 million head
AVAILABLE
HPAI (Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza) Newcastle Coccidiosis Salmonellosis Marek Bronchitis
20+ datasets · 1,255 images fientes · DashFLUboard
Start triage →
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Health Surveillance
Notifiable diseases & alerts
ESSENTIAL
Cat. A — Immediate eradication WAHIS / EMPRES-i ESA Platform Zoonoses
WOAH 117 diseases · FAO EMPRES-i · EFSA · GDS France
Coming soon
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Suspected notifiable disease?

Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), peste porcine, influenza aviaire HP, ESB... Ne deplacez aucun animal. Contactez immediatement votre DDPP ou appelez le 3115.

📞 3115
🏥

Your official veterinarian

Primary contact for all animal health matters. Legally required contract.

🛡️

Departmental GDS

260,669 member farmers. Prophylaxis, surveillance, advice.

gdsfrance.org
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DDPP

French Departmental Directorate for Population Protection. Health enforcement.

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ESA Platform

National epidemiological surveillance. Emerging disease alerts.

plateforme-esa.fr

Integrated scientific databases

165+
Open datasets
120+ Go
Accessible data
6
Major sources
117
WOAH-listed diseases

SOS Agricole s'appuie sur les bases WAHIS (OIE/WOAH), FAO EMPRES-i, EFSA, ESA Platform, ANSES et GDS France, ainsi que sur 165+ datasets ouverts (Zenodo, Kaggle, Mendeley Data, GitHub) couvrant l'ensemble des especes d'elevage.

Mandatory legal notice — The guidance provided by SOS Farm constitutes indicative assistance based on veterinary and epidemiological references. It does not in any way constitute a veterinary diagnosis within the meaning of Art. L243-1 of the French Rural Code. If a notifiable disease (Category A/B) is suspected, contact your DDPP (French Departmental Directorate for Population Protection) immediately.