ICMR Sets up Vector Science Forum

The Indian Council of Medical Research has constituted a Vector Science Forum to promote research on vectors.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has constituted a Vector Science Forum to promote research on vectors and to develop a common platform for all vector biologists, entomologists, programme people and experts embarking upon common issues.

Senior officials in the ICMR said that emerging and re-emerging vector borne diseases (VBD) are posing a great challenge to researchers, disease control programme planners and implementers in the country. The current vector control strategies are proving insufficient and the major advances in the molecular biology of disease vectors over the last two decades have yet to result in tangible tools that effectively reduce VBD incidence.

Research priorities will be diversified to