US aiding prevention of grave diseases
The United States is establishing special laboratory facilities in
Azerbaijan to prevent the spread of biological diseases.
Such facilities have already been commissioned in the central Saatly and Sabirabad districts and talks are now underway to set up one in the northern Guba district, the State Veterinary Service official said.
"These laboratories will serve to discover, track down and prevent 44 hazardous diseases, including bird flu, tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth disease," Eldaniz Zeynalov said.
Representatives of the US Department of Defense, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine met in Baku last week to seek ways of jointly warding off biological threats in the region.
The U.S. has voiced concern over the spread of such perilous diseases as bird flu and TB in Azerbaijan in the past two years.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in its new report that there were nearly half a million new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis --about 5% of the total nine million new TB cases--worldwide each year. The highest rate was recorded in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, where nearly a quarter of all new TB cases (22.3%) were reported as multidrug-resistant.
WHO estimates that $4.8 billion is needed for overall TB control in low- and middle-income countries in 2008.
Such facilities have already been commissioned in the central Saatly and Sabirabad districts and talks are now underway to set up one in the northern Guba district, the State Veterinary Service official said.
"These laboratories will serve to discover, track down and prevent 44 hazardous diseases, including bird flu, tuberculosis and foot-and-mouth disease," Eldaniz Zeynalov said.
Representatives of the US Department of Defense, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine met in Baku last week to seek ways of jointly warding off biological threats in the region.
The U.S. has voiced concern over the spread of such perilous diseases as bird flu and TB in Azerbaijan in the past two years.
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in its new report that there were nearly half a million new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis --about 5% of the total nine million new TB cases--worldwide each year. The highest rate was recorded in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, where nearly a quarter of all new TB cases (22.3%) were reported as multidrug-resistant.
WHO estimates that $4.8 billion is needed for overall TB control in low- and middle-income countries in 2008.
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