Building global capacities to respond to disease outbreaks - GCP/GLO/442/USA

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Building global capacities to respond to disease outbreaks - GCP/GLO/442/USA

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Document

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Synopsis (short abstract) With an increasingly interconnected world highly vulnerable to the global impact of new emergent viruses, this project sought to improve human and animal health by advancing scientific knowledge of zoonotic disease emergence and transmission at the animal-human interface. Crucial to this effort was the support provided in strengthening joint activities by public and veterinary health services in target countries.

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