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On 22 September, at the Headquarters of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in Paris, Dr Bernard Vallat, Director General of the OIE, and Professor Christian Bréchot, Director General of the Institut Pasteur (IP), signed an agreement to strengthen their cooperation in the fields of animal disease and zoonosis research, education, surveillance and control, in line with the “One Health” concept.
In particular, this Agreement seeks to facilitate the creation of collaborating centres and reference laboratories around the world with the support of the Institut Pasteur International Network (RIIP) present in 32 countries.
The Agreement also deals with other critical public health issues, namely the surveillance and control of Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and Rift Valley fever (RVF), on which collaboration already exists between the OIE and the IP through the IP network’s two Reference Laboratories for these zoonoses, both of which are recognised as Reference laboratories by the OIE.
Tuesday September 29, 2015/ OIE.
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