Nearly 75 percent of all new, emerging, or reemerging diseases affecting humans have originated in animals. Notable reminders of how vulnerable the increasingly interconnected world is to the global impact of new emergent diseases include HIV/AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), H5N1 avian influenza, and the pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza virus. The speed with which these diseases can emerge and spread presents serious public health, economic, and development concerns. It also underscores the need for the development of comprehensive disease detection and response capacities, particularly in those geographic areas where disease threats are likely to emerge. (http://www.oie.int/doc/ged/D11473.PDF)
Recognizing the important given above, VPHCAP organized a special lecture on “Global Health Concern Emerging Pandemic Threats in Asia” on July 16, 2014 at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, CMU by Prof.Dr.Gebreyes Wondwossen from The Ohio State University, USA to expand and exchange how to confront and manage these emerging diseases in Asia and important role of veterinarian in veterinary public health. This special lecture was participated by specialists, lectures, students and government officials from northern region.
Special Lecture
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“Global Health Concern Emerging
Pandemic Threats in Asia”