One of the reasons CARE is inovled in fighting H5N1 is that we believe diseases arrising from animal origin will be an increasingly important public health problem as the numbers of humans living in close proximity to livestock is higher than ever before (meaning there are more opportunitites for virsuses like H5N1.
The death of two people from pig disease plus new H5N1 outbreaks is what's worrying Vietnamese health and animal health officials today...
"Two people have died in northern Vietnam from a pig disease while another virus has been killing thousands of pigs in recent weeks in the central region, government and media reports said on Monday. Bird flu has also returned to the central region, killing hundreds of ducks at a farm at the weekend, they said.
Twenty two people, most from northern areas, have been taken to a Hanoi hospital so far this year after they fell sick from the Streptococcus suis bacteria, the Vietnam News Agency said on Monday.
Two of the infected had died, it said without giving more details.
People infected by the bacteria suffer from rapid internal haemorrhage and high fever after they eat pork from a sick pig or inhale the air near the sick swine, doctors said.
Another pig disease, the Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) virus, also known as Lelystad virus, had struck more than 16,000 pigs in the central province of Quang Nam since June 25, the Agriculture Minister Cao Duc Phat said on July 14."
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HAN235672.htm
An important component of CARE's work is improving cooperation between animal and human health sectors at all levels. This cooperation will become increasingly important to control zoonotic diseases locally before they become a threat globally.
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