Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
India seeks to integrate disease surveillance
Planning Commission is considering the integration of human and animal disease surveillance plans
Vidya Krishnan
New Delhi: The Planning Commission is considering a proposal to integrate human and animal disease surveillance programmes, following regular outbreaks of Japanese encephalitis, leptospirosis and H1N1 influenza? all of which have jumped the species barrier and are now endemic in India.
Under the 12th Five-Year Plan that starts 1 April, a standing committee has gone as far as recommending the creation of a veterinary doctor?s post in the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) at the district level.
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http://www.livemint.com/2012/02/21001606/India-seeks-to-integrate-disea.html?h=B
Planning Commission is considering the integration of human and animal disease surveillance plans
Vidya Krishnan
New Delhi: The Planning Commission is considering a proposal to integrate human and animal disease surveillance programmes, following regular outbreaks of Japanese encephalitis, leptospirosis and H1N1 influenza? all of which have jumped the species barrier and are now endemic in India.
Under the 12th Five-Year Plan that starts 1 April, a standing committee has gone as far as recommending the creation of a veterinary doctor?s post in the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) at the district level.
...
http://www.livemint.com/2012/02/21001606/India-seeks-to-integrate-disea.html?h=B