One Health News

July 30, 2009   Breaking News: World Rabies Day Challenge to Climb Mt Snowdon!!!   Raising Funds for World Rabies Alliance   Dear Friends and Colleagues:   The Alliance has just received word that two groups within the Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge U.K. have thrown down the gauntlet , as it were, in an…

Vermont (USA) Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics Resolution Endorses One Health   July 2, 2009 – Provided to One Health Initiative website by:                                         John Trumper, MD                                         P.O. Box 7, Brattleboro                                         Vermont 05302   Passed July 1, 2009 – RESOLVED:     That the Vermont Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics continue…

Vermont (USA) Pediatrician Describes Activist One Health Collaborative Educational Efforts   June 26, 2009   John Trumper, MD, a retired Vermont pediatrician, updated the One Health Initiative website regarding physician efforts to expand and utilize One Health principles by educating fellow practicing physicians and veterinarians statewide.  This hopefully represents a significant and efficacious blueprint [in…

July 4, 2009 Important!   Request for Information on Veterinary Vaccine Utilization in Sub-Saharan Africa   By Thomas P. Monath, MD   We need help from the veterinary community in solving a critical problem for human vaccines. This is a major opportunity for One Health.   A novel vaccine for protection of infants against malaria,…

Date: July 13, 2009 Location: NICARAGUA – Robin Hughes, DVM Reports For more please see:   http://www.rabiescontrol.net/EN/Programs/Projects-Overview/USNS_Comfort.html Date: July 5. 2009 Location: NICARAGUA  As reported June 15, 2009 by Robin Hughes, DVM:   …”The Surgeon General of the United States made a brief visit to the ship to learn about Operation Continuing Promise and visited us at…

New ProMED “One Health” Initiative Launched Targeting Physicians, Veterinarians and other public health workers in Anglophone Africa – June 30, 2009   I am pleased to announce this new enterprise targeting physicians and veterinarians in Anglophone Africa, complementing ProMED-FRA which does the same for francophone Africa.  These are not duplicates from the English ProMED lists,…

  June 17, 2009   Death of Former CDC Employee and noted Rabies Expert – George M. Baer, DVM, MPH Dr. George Martin Baer, a former CDC employee in the Division of Viral & Rickettsial Diseases, died on June 2, 2009, in Mexico City, Mexico, at the age of 73. He was an eminent virologist,…

Centre for Public Health, Zoonoses Launched at University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College May 04, 2009 – News Release http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2009/05/centre_for_publ.html   As stated in the News Release (please see entire notice in link above) and repeated in full on this One Health Initiative’s website Publication page …A one-of-a-kind centre aimed at preventing and controlling emerging animal-related…

One Health in ACTION!  Orthopedic Surgeons (a veterinarian and physician) Research Creative Hip and Knee Replacements for Dogs and Humans Together Veterinarian James “Jimi” Cook, DVM, PhD, a University of Missouri- Columbia college of veterinary medicine professor of orthopedic surgery and physician B. Sonny Bal, MD, JD, MBA, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery college of medicine…

AVIAN Influenza Toolkit  –  May 25, 2009   http://www.aitoolkit.org/Default.aspx   The Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries & Forestry (DAFF) has conducted a project aimed at assisting APEC member economies to enhance their social, political and institutional arrangements to better prepare for and respond to the threat of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) and…

The SAPUVETNET III Project Contributing to the Millennium Development Goals through the One Health Concept    (http://www.sapuvetnet.org/), funded by the European Union (DCI-LA/2008/75), aims to contribute to the discussion of various aspects of Public Health that require a multidisciplinary approach. Rabies is a serious problem in many African and Latin American countries. Although it has…

An Important Newsweek Letter-to-the Editor from:  Laura H. Kahn, MD – May 16, 2009  (Scroll down to third letter)   http://www.newsweek.com/id/197887?tid=relatedcl   In response to the following:   The Path of a Pandemic How one virus spread from pigs and birds to humans around the globe. And why microbes like the H1N1 flu have become…

  Press Release January, 2009   Book Signing Announced for Jim Steele Biography American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Meeting, Seattle, 2009   Dr. Craig N. Carter, author of One Man, One Medicine, One Health—the James H. Steele Story and Dr. Cynthia Hoobler, editorial assistant, hereby announce a book-signing to be hosted by the American College…

ONE HEALTH Project: Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and the Government of the People’s Republic of China Information is public domain from the website: www.agriteam.ca/projects/profile/livestock-health-extension-services-project-lhesp Can be posted and distributed.   Provided May 15, 2009 by: Jane Pritchard BA, DVM, MVetSc Site Manager/LTTA Gansu and Chongqing  Livestock Health Extension Services Project  Agriteam Canada Rm 408/413…

Dear Colleagues,   We are pleased to inform you that we recently launched our “One Health Network” website (www.onehealthnet.be). The objective of this website is to stimulate interactions between the medical and the veterinary sectors, particularly in low-resource regions.   Practically, the website suscitates discussions on “One Health” issues through literature reviews. Reactions on the…

 The One Health Initiative has been endorsed by the American Physiological Society.       Please see published letter from President Dr. Irving H. Zucker and Executive Director Dr. Martin Frank below and on the Publication page of this website:  Dear Drs. Kahn, Kaplan, and Monath:      After reviewing the mission statement of the…

The following was graciously provided by: Robert Taylor, Content Manager Animal, Human & Social Sciences, CABI Head Office Nosworthy Way Wallingford Oxfordshire OX10 8DE United Kingdom News release  Free access to world-renowned public health database to assist swine-flu effort 1 May 2009  CABI today has announced free access to its specialist Global Health database –…

The following News item was provided by:   Ronald D. Warner, DVM, MPVM, PhD, DACVPM, ACEAssoc Professor (epidemiology, prev med, public health)Dept of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine Director, Travel Medicine ClinicTexas Tech Univ. Health Sciences Center3601 4th StreetLubbock, TX  79430-8143  OBITUARY: JANE BROTHERTON WALKER A ProMED-mail post <http://www.promedmail.org> ProMED-mail is a program…

Dynamic Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) and strong One Health Advocate Dies Dr. Janis H. Audin (MS IL ’75, DVM IL ’79), a champion of progressive veterinary medical journalism and “One Health” died April 22, 2009 following a long, courageous and difficult battle with pancreatic cancer. The world has…

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WILDLIFE VETERINARIANS POSITION STATEMENT ON ONE HEALTH – APPROVED   Health care stewards of animals and humans face unprecedented challenges associated with emerging pathogens, loss of biodiversity, climate change, and explosive human population growth resulting in habitat loss and increased wildlife/human interactions.  About 60% of existing human pathogens, and more than 75%…