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Eminent Virologist Joins One Health Initiative Team’s Honorary Advisory Board     The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team is delighted to announce that Dr. Fredrick A. Murphy, a veterinarian, has accepted becoming a member of the team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php on September 5, 2013.  He said, “It would be my great honor to accept your invitation to join this illustrious board.” The Advisory Board was established in 2010 and now has 30 distinguished members from within the U.S. and worldwide.   Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD http://www.utmb.edu/pathology/faculty/murphy/murphy_bio.htm is presently a Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Pathology, Galveston, Texas (USA).  His most recent remarkable literary contribution to the dynamic history of virology was a 2011 landmark book entitled “The Foundations of Virology Discoverers and Discoveries Inventors and Inventions Developers and Technologies”: See http://www.utmb.edu/virusimages.   Dr. Murphy and Karl M. Johnson, MD, a physician, worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as co-equal investigators, together discovering the etiologic agent of Ebola hemorrhagic fever, the Ebola virus among many other extraordinary One Health collaborations.  Dr. Johnson has said, “Fred Murphy and I collaborated on zoonotic viruses, their pathogenesis, epidemiology and ecology...our work over many years truly exemplifies the concept of One World, One Medicine, One Health.” Dr. Murphy is a longstanding One Health supporter/advocate.  See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php and http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/endorsements.php.