M.V.Raghavendra Rao
Avalon University School of Medicine, Curaçao
Title: New challenges in emerging and re-emerging trends in parasitic diseases
Biography
Biography: M.V.Raghavendra Rao
Abstract
Warm countries are the worm countries". Parasitic infection is a global health problem especially in developing countries. Emerging parasitic diseases are those diseases that have been newly appeared or that have existed in the past but are now rapidly increasing in frequency, geographical range or both. Emerging zoonotic diseases hamper both human and animal health and cause economic loss. The ecosystem is increasingly and continually being put in to turmoil by human acts such as deforestation and global warming with the resultant alteration in the distribution and behavior of parasites and their vectors. Ecologic changes, demographic changes, behavioral changes, travel and immigration are also contributed in emerging and reemerging parasitic infection. These infections will continue to emerge and reemerge leading to unpredictable epidemics and challenges for the clinicians /scientists. Hence there is urgent need of surveillance and control. Dracunculus is almost eradicated but it is reemerging. African trypanosomiasis, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, emerging as new out breaks. High level of innovation triggered on genomics, RNA biology,proteomics,genomics, nanotechnology,nanoscience, and animal models. The strategic focus is on technology development in the areas of bio therapeutics, cell therapy, vaccines, diagnostics, bio markers,advanced pharmaceutical sciences and clinical research for improvement of health and free from parasitic diseases. Challenges and risks in governance management certainly prevent the reemerging parasitic infection.