Okabe Nobuhiko

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174 Trop. Med., 40 (4), 174, December, 1998The Contribution to the Emerging/Re-Emerging Diseases in AsiaNobuhiko OKABEDivision of Survillance and Information, Infectious Diseases Surveillance Center,National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, JapanTo consider of the emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases is a global task today.Japan has been requested to contribute actively in the field of dispatch experts to recognizeand control an unusual outbreak occurs particularly in the developing countries in thewestern pacific Region, cooperated with WHO. Obviously, such activities will also help toprotect unknown or serious pathogen to invade in Japan from occurring and accumulate ex-periences to control outbreak of emerging and re-emerging diseases outbreak in Japan,however, the system to dispatch Japanese infectious disease experts urgently to outside of thecountries had not been established in Japan.Japan and WHO discussed with this issue and agreed to establish the system to dis-patch experts for infectious disease outbreak in developing countries/areas as a WHO shortterm consultant by the request of WHO in 1997, and Japanese Government (Ministry ofHealth and Welfare; MOHW) makes the list of the Japanese experts in the field of infectiousdiseases to select and dispatch promptly･ Dispatched experts will advice and cooperate ofinfectious disease control and prevention in the place of outbreak, in collaboration with thecountries/areas and WHO. The activities will be involved laboratory examination and diag-nosis, epidemiological surveillance, vector control, health education, plan for immunizationetc.

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