One Health News

Major One Health News…   National League of Cities (USA) Adopts One Health Resolution   November 18, 2011 (USA)—The National League of Cities (NLC) http://nlc.org/ adopted an historic One Health Resolution at its annual business meeting in Phoenix, AZ (USA) on November 12, 2011, with approximately 700 voting members in attendance.    The resolution states…

One Health Publications   Courtesy of:  *Clinicians Brief Journal – November 2011 Issue:   ·         “Public Health Significance of Toxoplasma” – See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/CapsulesNov2011.pdf.   ·          Ask the expert…“Checklists: An Answer to Avoiding Mistakes” – See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/AsktheExpert_Checklists.pdf   See full November issue: http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal   *Clinician’s Brief, the official Journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC),…

One Health Approaches Serve to Mind the Gaps Olga Jonas, Economic Adviser, World Bank, Washington, DC 20433 (USA) www.worldbank.org/flu     Provided to One Health Initiative Website – November 9, 2011 The breaking of the levees in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the single most catastrophic failure of an engineered system…

A neglected zoonosis… Notes from the Field: Q Fever Outbreak Associated with Goat Farms — Washington and Montana, 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: October 14, 2011 / 60(40);1393: See PDF http://alturl.com/dvt7z On April 22, 2011, the Q fever bacterium Coxiella burnetii was detected in a goat…

U. S. Department of Health and Human Services – Food and Drug Administration (FDA) One Health Initiative: Fat Cat? By Ashley Steel, Center for Veterinary Medicine, FDA – November 2, 2011 “We drive through 7 am gridlock to survive the monotony of our 9-to-5 jobs all to find a way to pay for life’s expenses.…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – A serious One Health Issue!   National Institute of Animal Agriculture (NIAA)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Contact: Teres Lambert 847-838-2966 tlambert@animalagriculture.org   Antibiotic Use in Food Animals Symposium Establishes New Benchmark for Information, Science See: 2011 NIAA Symposium Proceedings: Antibiotic Use in Food Animals:  A Dialogue for a Common Purpose…

MIT News (USA): Analysis of 29 mammals reveals genomic ‘dark matter’ Genomic comparison offers a new map for charting human disease and biology.   Haley Bridger, Broad Institute   October 13, 2011   “An international team of researchers has discovered the vast majority of the so-called “dark matter” in the human genome, by means of…

Food Safety and One Health Issues Discussed: Produce Problems: How Pigs, Pollution And Other People Taint Our Fruits And Veggies By Reporter Lynne Peeples – The Huffington Post lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com The second in a series investigating the complex linkages between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Please see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/produce-contamination-illness-listeria-infection-loop_n_1033152.html

2nd Report of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee – April 2011 (USA)   Includes references to building One Health infrastructure:   “Challenges        –  One Health: Domestic animal, wildlife and plant disease surveillance systems and food and vector disease monitoring systems should be integrated into the national biosurveillance strategy for human health.”   http://www.cdc.gov/about/advisory/pdf/NBASFinalReport_April2011.pdf

Please see Important publication with free access…of significant One Health [interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary] interest:   The Infectious Disease Committee of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV) Publishes Infectious Diseases of Concern to Captive and Free-ranging Wildlife in North America   Napier JE, Gamble KC (editors):  Infectious diseases of concern to captive and free-ranging animals in North…

Global Handwashing Day was October 15, 2011   But it is never too late to wash your hands!!   Please see: http://www.globalhandwashingday.org/

One Health interest… Comments on Abstract “ Professional exposure to goats increases the risk of pneumonic-type lung adenocarcinoma: Results of the IFCT-0504-Epidemio study “ by Magnin-Lutringer et al, presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Annual Congress meeting in the Netherlands, September 25, 2011 https://www.ersnetsecure.org/public/prg_congres.abstract?ww_i_presentation=53083:   Brian Henderson MD1 This is an interesting clinical series of…

A One Health Milestone…   U. S. Veterinary Journal Establishes Visionary One Health Policy and One Health Section   The official journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), Clinician’s Brief http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal/october-2011: see View this Issue, a peer reviewed journal, has established a unique, visionary and seminal One Health policy…the journal is primarily designed to…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                            October 10, 2011 Contact: Katie Ambrose   719-538-8843                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     katie.ambrose@animalagriculture.org     National Symposium Focus: 360-Degree View of Antibiotic Use in Food Animals – The National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA)   Colorado Springs, Colo. (Oct. 3)—Antibiotic use in food animals has been dissected in the media, online and among consumers for the past…

U.S. American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) Endorses One Health      Provided to One Health Initiative team October 5, 2011 “The American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) strongly believes that pet ownership provides many emotional and physical health benefits to humans. Studies show that people are more likely to exercise with their pets than by themselves or…

University of California, Davis, CA (USA) – School of Veterinary Medicine   One Health Project   Dr. Calvin Schwabe, Veterinarian, Coined “One Medicine”, now called One Health   UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine SEE: http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/about/schwabe.cfm http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/local-assets/pdfs/schwabe_coins_onemedicine#schwabe_coins_onemedicine

Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) News Release    Annual number of deaths from rabies hits 70,000 worldwide Economic burden of disease hits US$4 billion “Geneva, Glasgow 28 September 2011: The Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC) today announces that preliminary data released this month at the OIE Global Conference on Eliminating Rabies has estimated…

See important September 30, 2011 Huffington Post (USA) column that includes One Health implications:  ‘Contagion’ Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals And The Environment May Be Spawning A New Class Of Infectious Diseases By Lynne Peeples lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com PLEASE SEE:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/contagion-infectious-disease-animals-environment-health_n_987455.html?1317396819

Animal Clinic (USA) Promotes One Health on Website   Bennett Porter III, DVM, owner of the Westgate Pet Clinic in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), posted a One Health promotional website News item on September 7, 2011.  Dr. Porter is one of the early visionary private practice veterinarians to recognize the importance of appreciating and engaging the…

Contagion Movie was One Health Deficient…making it Unrealistic!   What Contagion missed By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 29 September 2011 “It’s not often that Hollywood ventures into the realm of epidemics and public health, and when it does, the outcome is usually laughably out of touch with reality — like Outbreak, the 1995…