Intl Cooperation deepened on plague prevention and control

A webinar themed on "Plague Prevention and Control in China, Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan", organized by the China CDC and State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (SKLID), was held on Nov 22, 2021.

The success of the webinar provided a platform for China and the Belt and Road countries to learn from each other in plague prevention and control technologies, which is especially important for communicating information and references on plague prevention and control in border areas such as the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in China.

Xu Jianguo, the director of the SKLID and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, emphasized the far-reaching significance of establishing a joint plague prevention and control mechanism among the four countries, and spoke highly of the foundation that has been formed by China, Russia, Mongolia and Kazakhstan for communication and cooperation.

Li Wei, head of the Laboratory of Plague Control at the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention of the China CDC, introduced plague surveillance and antibiotics resistance monitoring in China.

Vladimir Kutyrev, the Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, director of the Russian Research Anti-Plague Institute "Microbe" and Professor Galina Eroshenko introduced the improving epidemiological surveillance of plague in Russia and trans-boundary natural foci in recent years.

Nyamdorj Tsogbadrakh, director of the National Center for Zoonotic Disease in Mongolia, and Professor D.Otgonbayar, gave an overview of the plague focus in Mongolia and associated information on human plague in the country between 2019 and 2021.

Toktassyn Yerubayev, the general Director National Scientific Center for Especially Dangerous Infections, Kazakhstan, introduced the control system for natural plague foci in Kazakhstan.