New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has deployed a National Joint Outbreak Response Team (NJORT) to Gujarat and Rajasthan to strengthen the response to the ongoing Chandipura Virus Disease (CHPV) outbreak.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the deployment comes against the backdrop of sustained and intensified scientific investigations by a nationwide network of premier research institutions, alongside continuous disease surveillance under the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), coordinated by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in close collaboration with State Surveillance Units.

These coordinated efforts are aimed at advancing the understanding of the viru...