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Training
Opportunities
The WHOCC-Plague
is active in efforts to increase the surveillance, prevention, control
and diagnostic capacities of other plague programs through training
opportunities. Training activities consist of those provided at the
WHOCC-Plague or during on-site workshops held in host countries.
Over the past decade
the center has:
- Participated
in on-site WHO- or PAHO-sponsored training workshops in India, China,
Hong Kong, Indonesia, Vietnam, Ecuador, and Peru. These workshops
have provided training in plague diagnostics, surveillance, prevention
and control techniques.
- Provided training
at the WHOCC-Plague for persons from Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India,
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Peru, Ecuador, India, Russia, Sri Lanka,
Tanzania, and Vietnam.
- Produced training
materials, including publication of sections on the surveillance,
clinical diagnosis and treatment of plague in WHO's recently revised
Plague Manual; publication of a WHO- and CDC-sponsored Laboratory
Manual of Plague Diagnostic Tests; publication of numerous book chapters,
articles, pamphlets; and development of a CDC website with information
on plague (see Publications section
for the WHOCC-Plague. Also click the following for access to the DVBID
plague website: www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/plague).
- Sponsored international
plague workshops at the Emerging Infectious Diseases meetings held
in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1998 and 2000. These workshops strengthened
the global plague network and allowed plague workers from many countries
to learn about new techniques for plague surveillance, control and
diagnosis.
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