Zoonoses : Experts Seek Better Management Techniques

Statistics from the World Organisation for Animal Health indicate that 2/3 of human infectious diseases come from animals, 75 per cent in most cases are from emerging infectious diseases. More disturbing is the fact that several cross-border epidemics such as Avian Influenza, Ebola Virus disease and Monkey Pox, have revealed fluid transition from the animal kingdom to human populations in favourable environmental conditions. According to the Director of the Institute of Medical Research and Medicinal Plants Studies (IMPM), Professor Jean-Louis Essame Oyono, this is a major challenge to experts in the domain, especially given that human health cannot be handled in isolation as it is linked to animal health as well as the environment in which they find themselves. 
It is within this backdrop that some 50 experts from 10 countries in West and Central Africa on October 10, 2022 in Yaounde began a 12-day training, to strengthen their capacity to be able to better anticipate the emergence of zoonotic viruses such as the Ebola virus or other Zoonoses identified as priorities in the countries targeted by the project. According to one of the partners implementing the project in Cameroon, Sophie Muset from EBO-SURSY, the training is part of the project "One Health.” Sophie Muset explained that the  approach was developed by the implementing partners in order to provide the 10 target countries with multidisciplinary training covering a series of projects among which: human-animal-ecosystem, epidemiological surveillance of wild fauna and domestic fauna as intermediate hosts, sample processing methods in the field and in the laboratory and analysis and interpretation of data. 
The first training took place in the Republic of Guinea, in Conakry in 2019. ...