Gov't acquires surveillance kits to help detect diseases in animals

The government has acquired surveillance kits to help detect diseases in animals from a distance especially with the spread of Ebola virus in Africa.

The kits were presented during a meeting between officials of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (MINEPIA) and partner laboratories.

The surveillance kits include equipment that can take the temperatures of animals from a three-metre distance as well as food and animal specimens for laboratories.

According to MINEPIA Minister, Dr Taiga, 75 percent of diseases that affect man, like the recent Ebola virus, have their origin from animals.

It is therefore in a bid to prevent an attack by such wildlife diseases that stakeholders of MINEPIA and some laboratories met in Yaounde.

Dr Taiga also disclosed the setting up of a surveillance system for wild animals amongst measures to check transmission of diseases by wildlife. creatures.