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By Region: South Asia

UN food agency calls for collective action to combat foot-and-mouth disease

(UN News Centre) Collective action and solid commitments to a global strategy are necessary to control foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), the United Nations food agency stressed today. “Recent FMD outbreaks around the globe demonstrate that animal diseases have no boundaries, can have a devastating impact and require a global response,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Read More »

June 27, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Agriculture, Countermeasures, International, and Policy & Initiatives
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Ahmedabad hospital on alert as doctor dies of Congo Fever

(Zee News) Ahmedabad: A local hospital is on alert as a resident doctor died of the dreaded Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (Congo fever) here today. Dr Smiral Patel of V S Hospital, who contracted the virus while treating a patient with unknown hemorrhagic viral fever, today died at a private hospital. “We started screening all ward Read More »

June 25, 2012
| Filed under South Asia, Agents & Toxins, and Public Health
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World Health Organization Perspective on Implementation of International Health Regulations

(Emerging Infectious Diseases) In 2005, the International Health Regulations were adopted at the 58th World Health Assembly; in June 2007, they were entered into force for most countries. In 2012, the world is approaching a major 5-year milestone in the global commitment to ensure national capacities to identify, investigate, assess, and respond to public health Read More »

June 22, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America, South Asia, Countermeasures, International, Policy & Initiatives, and Public Health
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Response to Comment on “Seroevidence for H5N1 Influenza Infections in Humans: Meta-Analysis”

(Science Careers Blog) We would like to respond to several points made in the comment by Van Kerkhove et al. regarding our recently published meta-analysis of seroevidence for H5N1 influenza virus infections in humans. Taking into account only four of the countries with documented avian influenza H5N1 infections—Vietnam, Indonesia, Egypt, and China—there is a cumulative Read More »

June 22, 2012
| Filed under Africa, Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, North America, South Asia, Agents & Toxins, Public Health, and Research
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Chem-Bio Surveillance System Under Development in India

(Global Security Newswire) A surveillance technology being developed in India is intended to provide advance alert of a biological or chemical strike, the New Indian Express reported on Thursday. The project at India’s Defense Bioengineering and Electromedical Laboratory would incorporate nano-size systems and is intended to aid in biological and chemical defense, according to V.K. Read More »