by Jakob Zinsstag | Dec 10, 2015 | Blogs, News, Project/Program
The President of IAEH visits Umnugobi Province in Mongolia while supervising Bolor Bold, a Mongolian medical doctor at the National Centre of Zoonotic Disease, working on echinococcosis control. Umnugobi, which is the southern part of the Gobi desert in Mongolia has one of the highest incidences of echinococcosis in Mongolia. The project aims to understand current treatment algorithms of echinococcosis and then to improve clinical care. At a later stage, control at the source is foreseen, but a better understanding of the disease ecology is necessary to recognize the most important reservoirs and intermediary hosts. For example, it is not currently known what role camels play in the transmission of echinococcosis. Visit of the local branch of the National Centre for Zoonotic Diseases, ecology office in Dalanzadgad. Meeting with the local branch of the National Centre for Zoonotic Diseases and the Health Department of Dalandzadgad, the capital of Umnugobi province of Mongolia. Do camels play a role as intermediary hosts of Echinococcosis? Visiting a ger, a traditional Mongolian tent with the director of the local branch of NCZD in Umnugobi. Perfect camouflage: Do you see the lizard? Jakob Zinsstag | jakob.zinsstag@unibas.ch Jakob Zinsstag is deputy head of department at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and President of the IAEH. He is interested in the health of mobile pastoralists and zoonoses control in Africa and Asia. ...
