Challenges to Control of Zoonotic Infection Disease
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How are people living with virus and infection disease? The session provides three talks to discuss the issue. Dr. Chieko Kai talks an emerging virus disease. In 1998 a hundred five people were killed by encephalitis in a pig farming area of Malaysia. The tragic event was caused by an outbreak of unknown pathogen apparently infected human through pigs, which was named as Nipah virus later. The government had destroyed a huge number of pigs and controlled the disease, though it took six years to recover economics. Scientists are still investigating enigmas of the outbreak in humans and developing the protection methods.
Mr. Mitsuo Oda talks a dog disease. The government office used to take top-down approaches to public hygiene for protection of infection disease. A rabies protection project has attracted in Chiang Mai in Thailand. Vaccination and sterilization are performed in collaboration with Medical College of Chiang Mai University, major Buddhist priests and local residents. Children have got knowledge through educative animations and play a role of advertising “media”.
Dr. Tetsuya Mizutani gives attractive topics on virus causing disease of animals. Infection disease is influenced by animal wondering, activity of blood sucking insect, gene mutation, and worldwide activity of people. Climate change in global scales will also affect it. It requires to develop a new infectious disease medicine Future Predictive Medicine of Infection.