Badr University One Health summit opens with debut of mosquito-monitoring technology

The third international veterinary medicine conference opened at Badr University in Cairo on Monday, bringing together more than 400 participants from Egypt and 14 countries.

• Conference head Adel Abdel Khaleq said the summit covers pandemic preparedness, food safety, veterinary innovation and artificial intelligence applications in one-health work.
• He stated four international cooperation agreements will be signed with academic research institutions in Somalia, Uganda, Romania and Indonesia.
• Abdel Khaleq announced the first-ever display of VectoScan, a South Korean-developed scanning technology for identifying mosquitoes and the diseases they transmit.
• He said mobile diagnostic laboratories can detect epidemic pathogens within 10 minutes, and that 50 research papers will be reviewed with 35 nominated for publication.
• Mohamed Saad, head of Egypt's General Authority for Veterinary Services, called the summit a platform for partnerships advancing human, animal and environmental health.
• In a speech read on its behalf, the General Syndicate of Veterinarians called veterinarians the first line of defense against zoonotic diseases.
• Mohamed Saad said One Health is a key pillar against pandemics, stressing early preparedness, practical training, rapid response and testing emergency plans.