Environmental surveillance

Source:  TH Context: ICMR announced a plan to start wastewater surveillance for 10 viruses across 50 Indian cities, expanding India’s disease monitoring system. About Environmental surveillance: What It Is? Environmental surveillance is the monitoring of pathogens (viruses, bacteria, parasites) in environmental samples like sewage, wastewater, soil, and air. It supplements traditional clinical case detection by …

Why Environmental Surveillance for Avian Influenza is vital?

GS Paper 2   Syllabus: Issues related to Health   Source: TH    Context: Avian influenza (H5N1) or bird flu has caused unprecedented loss of tens of thousands of birds at Bass Rock, an island off the coast of North Berwick, Scotland.       Avian Influenza in India: The latest major avian flu outbreak …