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Australia funds training of “animal disease detectives”

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will fund a 4.3 million AUD (2.8 million USD) project training a group of “animal disease detectives” in 11 countries and territories in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including Vietnam.
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Sydney (VNA) - Australia’s Departmentof Foreign Affairs and Trade will fund a 4.3 million AUD (2.8 million USD) project training a group of “animal diseasedetectives” in 11 countries and territories in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including Vietnam.

According to Associate ProfessorNavneet Dhand from the University of Sydney’s Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and School of VeterinaryScience, the majority of emerging infectious diseases, such as coronaviruses,are zoonotic diseases.

Transferred from animals to humans, zoonoticdiseases are increasing in frequency due to a range of factors, including populationgrowth, urbanisation, human encroachment into wild habitats, and increasing globalair travel, he said.

In order to protect humans from such diseases,he emphasised the need to look for pathogens and disease in domestic animals andwildlife before they spread to the human population.

The programme will develop the capacityfor early intervention in the investigation and management of animal disease outbreaksin the Asia-Pacific region, helping to halt the spread of trans-boundary diseases./.

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