Joanna McKenzie, Rojan Dahal, Manish Kakkar, Nitish Debnath et al.
INTRODUCTION: Considerable advocacy, funding, training, and technical support have been provided to South Asian countries to strengthen One Health (OH) collaborative approaches for controlling diseases with global human pandemic potential since the early 2000s. It is essential that the OH approach c...
Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Divita Sharma, Bharathi Vaishnav, Ritika Mukherjee et al.
Background Influenza poses a major public health challenge in South-East Asia Region (SEAR). To address the challenge, there is a need to generate contextual evidence that could inform policy makers and program managers for response preparedness and impact mitigation. The World Health Organization h...
Manish Kakkar, Divita Sharma, Manish Pal, Archisman Mohapatra et al.
BACKGROUND: Influenza is known to cause seasonal epidemics and recurrent pandemics and demands robust surveillance systems for strain detection and trend monitoring. There are global surveillance systems (FluNet and FluID) to monitor the trends in influenza virus strains and epidemiology. SEAR has b...