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Zoonotic Disease Unit (Government of Kenya)

The Zoonotic Disease Unit (ZDU) is a Government body in Kenya created to facilitate collaboration, disease control and outbreak response at the interface between human and veterinary medicine. As such, it typifies the so called One Health approach to disease control at this interface. The ZDU is also responsible for developing and implementing the Kenya One Health Strategic Plan

The ZDU is funded jointly by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Livestock Development, and consists of a secretariat, several disease-specific working groups and the Zoonotic Disease Technical Working Group (ZTWG), a panel of external expert members who are called upon on aQuarterly Basis to review the ZDU activities.

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Priority zoonoses

The ZDU has listed 17 priority zoonoses in its first phase of operation, through a consultative process with stakeholders. These are:
 * 1) Viral hemorrhagic fever (CCHF, Dengue, RVF, YF, Ebola, Marburg)
 * 2) Avian influenza and other pandemic influenza viruses (e.g. 2009 A/H1N1)
 * 3) Brucellosis
 * 4) Leishmaniasis
 * 5) Leptospirosis
 * 6) Anthrax
 * 7) Rabies
 * 8) West Nile virus
 * 9) Bovine tuberculosis
 * 10) Plague
 * 11) Tularemia
 * 12) Protozoans (Cryptosporidiosis, Toxoplasmosis)
 * 13) Salmonellosis
 * 14) Helminths (Trichinosis, Cysticercosis, Hydatidosis, Sarcopsis, Diphyllobothrium)
 * 15) Fungal diseases (Dermatophilosis, Histoplasmosis, Cryptococcosis, Aspergillosis)
 * 16) Schistosomiasis
 * 17) Trypanosomiasis