Cautioning a gathering of Scientists and Students on Sunday at Birsa Agriculture University (BAU) Veterinary Department, Octogenarian renowned Veterinary Scientist, HVS Chouhan said that there is need to boil non-vegetarian food at 70 degree Celsius to nullify the chances of getting infected by Coronavirus.
Couhan was speaking at a two day national conference on recent advances in diagnostic pathology for emerging and re-emerging disease for livestock, poultry under farming conditions and wildlife ended on Sunday at the Veterinary College.
At validatory session, 85 years old famous veterinary pathologists and consultant HVS Chouhan told that recent emergence of novel Coronavirus in Wuhan, China and people calling it a global emergency in a span of three weeks makes us acknowledge the fact that we are living in a global village where any scare can be of monumental concern. "In the past two decades we have witnessed emergence and re-emergence of several diseases such as FMD, influenza, repeated incurisions of highly pathogenic Avian influenza, middle east respiratory syndrome which pose serious threat to animal populations," he added.
Chouhan added livestock farming is increasingly gaining importance in the upliftment of national economy and the Country is witnessing expotential growth in the livestock based industries. "We are able to improve the veterinary services to the stakeholders through continuosly updating our knowledge and honing our skills for better diagnostics and therapeutics," he added.
This zonal conference and national symposium organised jointly by Indian Association of Veterinay Pathologists (IAVP) society, Ranchi chapter and Department of Veterinary Pathology, College of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandary, BAU in collaboration with NAHEP-CAST programme (ICAR). More than 150 veterinary pathologists from all over india and veterinary doctors of all 24 districts of Jharkhand attended the conference.
This symposium provided ample opportunity to exchange innovative scientific ideas and explore the future possibilities in the field of diagnosis, prevention and control of livestock, poultry and wildlife diseases. The symposium consisting 7 tecnical sessions on porcine diseases, large ruminant diseases, small ruminant diseases, wildlife diseases, poultry diseases, companion diseases and applied diagnostic techniques . Alltogether, 20 lead papers, 108 oral presentation and 25 poster presentation delivered by veterinary pathologists scientists during symposium.
National secretary of IAVP Dr RC Ghosh told that infectious disease still remain a leading cause of global disease burden with high mortality and morbidity of avian and animal population. Threats from emerging new disease during the past three decades is constantly on rise due to the evolution and of antibiotic resistence and the re-emergence of hitherto controlled established disease due to deelopment of antibiotic resistance and the capacity to spread to neo geographical areas, he added.
"Recent incidence of lumpy skin disease and avian onfluenza in the eastern india are the burning examples. There is urgent need to upgrade and stengthen the diagnostic facilities and diseases surveillance system and develop communication network for early warning of disease incidence of emerging and re-emerging nature," said Ghosh.
Speaking on the occasion Organising Committee Secretary Dr MK Gupta said that the society has recommend state of the art daignostic art laboratry, diagnosis center of animals should be established with interdepartmental approach, advance disease diagnostic laboratry should be established in veterinary pathology department and surveillance of emergenge and re-emergence disease shoulb be taken care at State level.
He said syposium is highly insentive and focused for warm up the challenges with respect to emerging and re-emerging diseases of livestock, poultry, wildlife and human beings as well.
