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By Region: South Asia

DA-CAR reiterates guidelines for FMD prevention

(Philippine Information Agency) BAGUIO CITY, July 2 – The Department of Agriculture (DA) Cordillera has reiterated the guidelines for the prevention of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) to help maintain the status of the country as free from the said disease. According the DA regional executive director Marilyn V. Sta Catalina, these guidelines cover the shipment of Read More »

July 3, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Rs265.7m okayed for dengue fight

(The Nation) KARACHI – A report of Economic Survey of Pakistan 2011-12 has mentioned that heavy monsoon rains in Punjab provided ideal conditions for dengue-bearing mosquitoes to thrive in stagnant water in 2011. “In Pakistan, the outbreak of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) was first reported in Karachi in 1994, followed by outbreaks in 2005, 2008, Read More »

July 2, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Countermeasures, and Policy & Initiatives
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Evolution of bird flu,and the race to keep up

(Indian Express) On May 20, a 10-year-old girl in rural Cambodia got a fever. Five days later, she was admitted to a hospital, and after two days of intensive care she was dead. The girl was the most recent documented victim of the influenza virus H5N1, a strain that has caused 606 known human cases Read More »

July 2, 2012
| Filed under North America, South Asia, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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More than 100 nations support new strategy on livestock disease FAO/OIE Global Strategy to control Foot-and-Mouth Disease benefits farmers and consumers

Bangkok – Farmers and consumers stand to benefit from a new global strategy to control the spread of a deadly livestock disease that was endorsed today by representatives from more than 100 countries and international donors at a conference in Bangkok organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Read More »

July 2, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, and Countermeasures
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Vaccine project shelved over production costs

(Times of India) PUNE: An ambitious plan to indigenously develop a vaccine against the deadly Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) had to be shelved because the pharmaceutical companies did not find large-scale production of the vaccine economically viable. Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) had developed a candidate vaccine against the virus. But it had Read More »