ME
EMERGING AND RE-
EMERGING INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
CAPT SHAHARUL
INTRODUCTION
AIM
Emerging Re-emerging
Diseases that Diseases that once were
have not major health problems
occurred in globally or in a particular
country, and then declined
humans before dramatically, but are again
or becoming health problems
that occurred for a significant proportion of
only the population.
in small numbers
in isolated Diseases thought to be
places. adequately controlled
making a “comeback” are
CONT..
Increased number
of
immunocompromise
d hosts.
War & Political conflict
cuase breakdown of
public health
infrastructure has role
in emergence of
diseases.
Since December
2014, swine flu
has claimed the
lives of over
1,300 people in
India, making it
the worst
outbreak of the
virus in the
country since
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza
(H5N1)
Epidermodysplasia Verruciformis
(Tree Man)
GENETICS
The cause of this condition is an inactivating PH mutation in the
EVER1 or EVER2 genes which are located adjacent to one
another on Chromosome 17
MALARIA
Causative agent is
Vibrio cholera