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“One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.”  One Health Initiative Website NEWS Statistics:    Serves as Website’s “LINKS PAGE”      The autonomous pro bono One Health Initiative website has been operational since October 1, 2008.  Since then the website has received over 180,000 visits from 120 countries (currently averages over 110 countries monthly) including the U.S., Canada, Australia and others (see below).  Numerous inquiries and comments have been received from several nations via physicians, veterinarians, allied health professionals, medical and veterinary medical scientists, students and others.  As of January 31, 2011 there are 563 listed One Health individual supporters worldwide. Our current e-mail distribution list of 829 individuals is from 51 countries, including: United States, Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Viet Nam, Switzerland, Sweden and Grenada, West Indies.   The preparers of this message and the two lists act independently of any other entity or organization; however where feasible we attempt to augment and support those organizations’ efforts to recognize, promote and implement this initiative such as the American Veterinary Medical Association, American Medical Association, Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Croatian Society for Infectious Diseases, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, World Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, Delta Society, American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, American Phytopathological Society, Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, Association of Schools of Public Health, American Society for Microbiology, National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians, Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, Association of Academic Health Centers, Association of American Medical Colleges, Immuno Valley Consortium in The Netherlands, Indian Veterinary Public Health Association, Italian Society of Preventive Medicine, The Institute for Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Food Safety [Lasio and Tuscany Regions Italy], the Corporation Red SPVet [Bogota, Colombia],  American College of Veterinary Pathology, United States Animal Health Association, and American Nurses Association. This One Health Initiative website is currently linked or has been linked with the following 70 known websites:  One Health Newsletter (Florida State Department of Health publication) http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html.  Federation of Asian Veterinarians  http://www.asianvet.org/     Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana  http://www.izslt.it/izs/          CABI Abtracts   http://cabiblog.typepad.com/hand_picked/2008/10/the-first-europ.htmlTracker News  http://www.trackernews.net/  SuperCourse Website  http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/index.htm and http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec33431/index.htm.  World Veterinary Association  http://www.worldvet.org/  ProMED-Mail  http://www.promedmail.org/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1000:    World Alliance for Rabies Control      http://www.worldrabiesday.org/EN/Our_Partners/Our_Partners.html  American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene http://www.astmh.org/Content/NavigationMenu/Publications/RelatedWebSites/default.htm  Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine   http://www.soctropvetmed.org/BioLinks.cfm American Association of Medical Colleges  http://www.aamc.org/research/partnerships.htm Wildlife Society  http://joomla.wildlife.org/WildlifeDiseases/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=186&Itemid=304, , http://www.onehealthonemedicine.org/ Avian Influenza Toolkit  http://www.aitoolkit.org/Home/Contributors1.aspx or contributors page PROSAIA (Argentina) http://www.prosaia.org/links/links.html  Featured on the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/dec08/081201i.asp   The Pandemic Network (previously mentioned)  http://www.pandemicnetwork.com/promed.htm  University of Guelph, Ontario Veterinary College, Centre for Public Health & Zoonoses  http://www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/cphaz/other/  Kansas State University http://www.k-state.edu/mphealth/links.htm; http://onehealthkansas.k-state.edu/about/28/one-health-links Parasites and Vectors http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/ University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Guide – One Health Portal http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/content.php?pid=35890 UC Davis Calvin Schwabe One Health Project  http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/links.cfm VetWeb.com  http://www.vetsweb.com/news/veterinarians-important-in-one-health-initiative-333.html  The Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre for Emerging Infectious Disease (AB-CRC) http://www.abcrc.org.au/pages/About.aspx?MenuID=29   The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (USA)  http://www.nasphv.org/links.html  Immuno Valley – The Netherlands  http://www.immunovalley.nl/Default.aspx?pageid=90  University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine  http://cvm.missouri.edu/news/onehealthinitiative.htm  Colorado State University One Health Club  http://lamar.colostate.edu/~ohcinfo/Links.html  Peir.net (Pathology Education Educational Resource) – University of Alabama at Birmingham http://peir2.path.uab.edu/merit/  European Wildlife Disease Association - http://www.ewda-2010.nl/Pages/Links.aspx  National Institute of Animal Agriculture (NIAA) 2010 Annual meeting site -http://www.animalagriculture.org/Solutions/AnnualMeeting/2010/Home.html  One Health Network - http://www.onehealthnet.be/Grey.html  Ohio State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine - http://vet.osu.edu; http://vet.osu.edu/6267.htm  The Canary Database – Yale University Occupational and Environmental Medicine/Yale University School of Medicine - http://canarydatabase.org/  PENAPH - Participatory Epidemiology Network for Animal and Public Health  -  http://penaph.net/  One Health Academy - http://www.onehealthacademy.org/_Links.html  Humanitarian Resource Center - http://www.unarts.org/news/onehealth_2222010.html  American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians -  http://www.aavld.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=35761&orgId=aavld  and www.aavld.org  American College of Veterinary Pathology - http://www.acvp.org/links/ and http://www.acvp.org/  1st International One Health Congress Meeting, Feb. 2011, Victoria, Australia -  http://www.onehealth2011.com/links.php  Wildlife Diseases News Digest - http://wdin.blogspot.com/2010/03/in-spotlight-one-health-initative.html  http://cstsp.aaas.org/content.html?contentid=2268  Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine - Centers and Institutes: http://vetmed.iastate.edu/centers-and-institutes International Programs: http://vetmed.iastate.edu/outreach/international-programs  Kansas State Diagnostic Laboratory - http://www.vet.k-state.edu/depts/dmp/service/  Rice University, Center for Technology in Teaching and Learning - http://medmyst.rice.edu/html/links.html  Exuberant Animal - www.exuberantanimal.com  One Health Commission (USA) - http://www.onehealthcommission.org/community-exchange.html and www.onehealthcommission.org  University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine - http://www.vet.upenn.edu/ and  http://www.vet.upenn.edu/PennVet/AboutUs/tabid/247/Default.aspx  University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Forefront of One Medicine/One Health - http://uiuc.libguides.com/content.php?pid=98786  University of Pittsburgh, Center for Global Health - http://www.globalhealth.pitt.edu/resources/additional-links.php  International Zoonosis Research Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan http://www.izrionline.com/Link.html and http://www.izrionline.com/  Zoonotic and Emerging Diseases, Edinburgh, UK, www.zoonotic-diseases.org and http://www.zoonotic-diseases.org/home/links  Australian Veterinary Association - http://www.ava.com.au/news/media-centre/hot-topics-6  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Gillings School of Global Public Health - http://www.sph.unc.edu/oilspill  Texas A&M University’s FAZD Center - http://fazd.tamu.edu/2010/09/fazd-center-ceezad-will-represent-one-health-initiative-at-international-symposium-on-zoonotic-diseases/  North Carolina State University – College of Veterinary Medicine - http://www.cvm.ncsu.edu/about/one-health.html  Infection, Ecology and Epidemiology Network (IEE), Sweden: http://www.infee.se/infee/node/6 and www.infee.se Roadmap to Combat Zoonoses in India’s (RCZI)  http://www.phfi.org/zoonoses;  http://111.93.4.145/Resources.html  Vet Tech at http://www.vettech.org  U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) ONE HEALTH Office -  www.cdc.gov/onehealth and http://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/related.html  The Yale Human Animal Medicine Project: a center for One Health studies at Yale -  http://tools.medicine.yale.edu/humananimalmedicine/index.html  U.S. National Vet2011 Committee headed up by the AVMA: See Members http://www.avma.org/Vet2011/Vet2011_MemberOrgs.asp  European Public Health Law Network: See www.ephln.org and http://www.ephln.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&view=category&id=37health-and-public-health-ethics&Itemid=48   One Health Kansas: K-12 Educational and Public Outreach Resources (scroll down to item 6, One Health) - http://onehealthkansas.k-state.edu/outreach/52/k-12-education-and-public-outreach-resources   World Bank-Avian Flu: www.worldbank.org/flu Food Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on One Health - http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/news_archive/2010_one-health.html Food Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on One Health - http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/news_archive/2010_one-health.html   Texas Department of State Health Services - Infectious Disease Control Unit:http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/idcu/health/zoonosis/veterinarian/  American Nurses Association - http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/OccupationalandEnvironmental/environmentalhealth/EnvironmentalResources/OtherResources.aspx   Triangle Global Health Consortium (North Carolina) http://onehealtheducation.blogspot.com/p/one-health-links.html and  http://triangleglobalhealth.ning.com/group/tghconehealth.  Penn State University website for the Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science: http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/frontiers/learning-resources/learning-resources-2011 from http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/frontiers                  <font style="mso-no-proof: yes;"