FAO rules out human-to-animal transmission of influenza A(H7N9) FAO says there is no evidence that human patients infected with influenza A(H7N9), a low pathogenic virus in poultry, can transmit the virus to animals, including birds. FAO referred to the first human case of A(H7N9) outside China, which was recently detected in Malaysia. The patient, originally from Guangdong Province in China, where she is thought to have contracted the infection, was visiting Malaysia as a tourist and has now been hospitalized there. Guangdong is one of the Chinese provinces most affected by the A(H7N9) virus in 2014...[Read more]
FAO ECTAD Viet Nam Contributes to the Preparedness Plan for H7N9 Control and Prevention FAO Viet Nam Representation The Emergency Centre of Transboundary Disease Control (ECTAD) FAO was asked to participate and contribute to the Ministerial level meeting on the H7N9 national preparedness plan. The meeting was chaired by Minister of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and engaged senior government officials from Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning and Investigation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These are some of the Ministries that are responsible to support MARD to prevent incursion of H7N9 into Viet Nam, and respond rapidly should the virus enter the country...[Read more]
Upcoming events · XXX Convención Internacional de la Industria Cárnica 27 February (Riviera Maya, México) · Inter-Regional Consultative Meeting on FMD & PPR Situation Progress 2-4 March 2014 (Amman , Jordan) · Ad Hoc Workshop on the Current State of Rift Valley Fever Vaccine and Companion Diagnostics Development 5-7 March 2014 (Rome, Italy - FAO-HQ) Interesting links · Global Health Security Agenda partnership meeting A statement by FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva · Assembling a geospatial database of tsetse-transmitted animal trypanosomosis for Africa Article ::: Parasites & Vectors, 7, 39. doi:doi:10.1186/1756-3305-7-39 · Mapping the economic benefits to livestock keepers from intervening against bovine trypanosomosis in Eastern Africa Article ::: Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 113(2), 197-210. doi: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2013.10.024 |