Pune, December 19: IT IS, for the first time, the visit of a high-level Steering US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the city-based National Institute of Virology (NIV). Ding Dr. Julie Louise Gerber, Director, CDC, Atlanta, visit a rendezvous with VIN on 21 December to interact with the scientific community on the new field of assistance - emerging viral diseases.

With climate change, demography and human factors, the hitherto unknown pathogens popping up in new niches resulting from illness. The human inmmunodeficiency virus 1984, 1990 Sin Nomre virus in the year 2003 Chandipura virus, recent outbreaks of avian flu and chikungunya, all review for addition to the need for networking between countries management of infections.

Therefore, we welcome the visit of Dr. Gerber, Dr. Ding AC Mishra, the director, the VIN, said that many of global diseases such as avian influenza or chikungunya affected than people in almost 40 countries, including India, as well as Neibouring countries like Sri Lanka, Nepal and Hong Kong.

ITTO is that the collaboration with CDC in various fields-p articularly flu, aims at the exchange of reagents and works in diahorreal and other respiratory viruses. Says Mishra, “Understanding the factors that lead to what kind of birth and re-emergence is a major challenge. Dépit the discovery of many tools to detect the cause for arboviruses is unknown, but suspicion the development and reliability Sensitive diagnosis for the treatment of patients, as well as homes remains a concern.”

ITTO is now identified as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference arboviruses and hemorrhagic fever reference and research. Over the years, she studied with the success of many virus outbreaks of the genesis and aims to strengthen research tie-ups with CDC, is known worldwide for his research and investigations.