nagpur the world health organisation who is trying its best to maximize the crossborder surveillance in all the southeast asian countries in order to minimize the risk of transfer of contagious diseases especially those transmitted from animals to man and then from man to man said dr gyanendra n gongal here on friday the scientist veterinary public health vph from the disease surveillance and epidemiology in the department of communicable diseases at the who regional office for southeast asia said that in the past 57 years the focused efforts are on this front so that various countries can evolve their own concrete policies and strategies to tackle the problem of import of the animal to man diseases like avian influenza swine flu etc which in recent past has created havoc in many countries gongal is in the city to participate in the brainstorming session on zoonosis being organized by the nagpur municipal corporation nmc on saturday though the international health regulation ihr has been in place since 2005 many animal to man diseases have affected different countries like epidemics our effort is towards regulating the to and fro flux of citizens in bordering countries who enter via illegal and unchecked migration routes by land of course the air and other routes which are already under surveillance too are being monitored he said besides who other international organizations like the fao office international epizootic oie world trade oragnisation world bank the united nations system for influenza control national centre for communicable diseases ncdc ministry of health and family welfare ministry of agriculture are all working in tandem for this purpose gongal informed that in the last 30 years 30 diseases have affected various countries badly of these 75 are of animal origin after entering the human system besides taking lives of general public they also kill health workers diseases like the avian influenza h5n1 in jalgaon the middle east respiratory syndrome caused due to coronavirus probably coming from bats through camels and the s10 n8 avian influenza and the s7n9 in china has affected human population the xii fiveyear plan in india has identified anthrax brucellosis rabies plaque and leptospirosis as five major diseases for regular surveillance on international front of course various intergovernmental agencies are already doing their job on this front through integrated disease surveillance system