Faculty of Health Sciences at Islamic University of Gaza in cooperation with the Military Medical Services affiliated with the Ministry of Interior held a lecture entitled ” Emerging and Reemerging infectious Diseases “. The lecture was attended by representatives of the Ministry of interior, managers of hospitals affairs, the faculty members, and a group of students. This kind of lectures take place within the framework of mutual cooperation between the university and the Ministry of Interior to develop and train the Ministry’s staff through holding a series of joint lectures and workshops between the two sides.
The lecture was given by Prof. Abdelraouf Elmanama, the professor of Microbiology at the Faculty of Health Sciences. He addressed the epidemiology situation of Covid-19, plus a number of epidemics and diseases that spread in the latest 50 years such as AIDS, SARS, Ebola. This is in addition to other epidemics that re-spread despite the declining number of infected cases such as Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Prof. Elmanama explained that climate and environment change, population explosions, geographical change, modern technology, building dams, cutting forests, change in agriculture methods, and animal husbandry helped in the spread of epidemics either emerging or reemerging ones. He also added that microbes have the ability to adapt to the surrounding conditions which make it virulence, and so becoming a component of the infection chain.
