PARO Newsletter #8 | English version
fast-food restaurant. We got a total of 13 groups signed up for the activity, and we had 17 people during the Talent show, as well as another 60+ viewers at both a zoom meeting and a live stream on the OEQF Facebook Page.
Feb. de 2020 | Vol. 8
A video was also made with photographs of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Students from the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) and the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG). The theme of the video was Pharmacy students’ life, and it was published on September 25 th on the social media pages from both OEQF (from USAC) and AEQF (from UVG). This has been the most successful activity that OEQF has had on last year, regarding all the activities made on site pre-pandemic and on the online perspective, and we hope to maintain this expectation for the next celebrations.
IMPORTANCE OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF EMERGING ZOONOTIC DISEASES
In recent decades, humanity has had to face different kinds of challenges, social, economic and phenomena derived from climate change, such as Emerging Zoonotic Diseases (EZD). Zoonosis is defined as any infectious disease that animals and humans can transmit to each other. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines emerging zoonoses as those that have been recently recognized or of recent evolution, or that have occurred previously but show an increase in incidence, expansion of the geographic range, host or vectors (1). This text will address the threats that EZDs represent to social welfare, economy, and ecological balance. In the same way, an idea to address this problem and the challenges that this represents will be shared. When it comes to nature, infectious diseases represent a threat to ecosystems since they are important biotic forces that can precipitate the decline in the population of wild species, which could impact the balance of ecological dynamics and lead to the loss of biodiversity (2). Regarding the impacts of EZD on public health, they cause millions of human deaths a year, the figures are alarming especially in developing
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