ANUSUYA zika virus in Indian context.pptx

ANUSUYA zika virus in Indian context.pptx

1. IS INDIA READY TO FACE ZIKA CHALENGE ? Ms Anusuya Behera Tutor KINS, Bhubaneswar

2. HOW READY IS INDIA Declaration of the emergency by WHO has made India take notice of the threat. On February 2, the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued guidelines on managing the Zika virus  .

3. Cont...... New Delhi:   Stepping up action against Zika virus, Health Ministry on Monday said that ten new diagnostic facilities will become operational in different states by the end of this month.

4. Cont..... "In addition to the two diagnostic facilities at NCDC and National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune , T en new facilities will become operational by end of February. These are located in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry , Karnataka, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Assam," the ministry said in an official statement.

5. Cont... For enhancing surveillance-the ministry has said that the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP ) The Maternal and Child Health Division (under National Health Mission) would also advise its field units to look for clustering of cases of microcephaly among newborns.

6. THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF THE MOSQUITO Climate change and deforestation are fuelling vector growth  . MOSQUITO-EATING FISH. FOGGING

7. we more likely to see mosquito-borne diseases like Zika in future? Olivier Restif , epidemiologist at the University of Cambridge, studies the dynamics of infectious diseases.  These are the diseases which we expect would increase in response to climate change. Although insect vectors have been travelling from tropical to temperate regions onboard ships and planes for many years, they are now more likely to survive and become established in temperate regions as winters become milder.

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