One Health News

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases | One Health Office January 2019   Download CDC’s One Health Resources Did you know that CDC’s One Health Office has free graphics and other resources available online? You can find downloadable graphics, fact sheets, web buttons, and more on…

A One Health Endorsement Message from Ireland:                                                                                                                  Cullenagh                                                                                                             Fermoy                                                                                                             Co. Cork                                                                                                             Rep Ireland                                                                                                             reprodocltd@gmail.com ___________________________________________________________________________   To Bruce Kaplan, DVM Laura H Kahn, MD,MPH, MPP Thomas P. Monath, MD OneHealth Initiative kkm@onehealthinitiative.com                                                                                                                               22/01/2019   Dear colleagues,   We, the…

Published in WONCA [World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA)] E-Update Friday 18th January 2019   WONCA and OneHealth One Health recognizes that the health of people is connected to the health of animals and the environment. It is a collaborative, multisectoral, and trans-disciplinary approach—working at the local, regional, national, and global levels—with the goal of…

A One Health view from: One Health Center of Excellence for Research and Training, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA and Animal Production and Health Laboratory, Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Technique in Food and Agriculture IAEA, Vienna International Centre, 1400 Vienna, Austria   Viruses 2018, 10(12), 725; https://doi.org/10.3390/v10120725 One Health (r)Evolution: Learning from…

Journal Infection Ecology & Epidemiology Volume 8, 2018 – Issue 1 Editorial A one health opinion editorial RE: ideal protocol for future international one health congress meetings, all inclusive modus operandi Bruce Kaplan DVM , Laura H. Kahn MD, MPH, MPP , Thomas P. Monath MD, Lisa A. Conti DVM, MPH & Thomas M. Yuill…

VETERINARIANS PERSPECTIVE ON ANTIBIOTICS by David Sparks Ph.d, click here for bio SEE: http://www.aginfo.net/index.cfm/event/report/id/Line-on-Agriculture-41786 AgInfo.net (press release) (blog) Through its “One Health Initiative,” NIAA, with support from Merck Animal Health, brings producers, veterinarians, scientists and government officials …

  “Attention physicians, veterinarians, nurses, and PhDs with a Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree: Want to become a population health leader while on the job? Applications for CDC’s Population Health Training In Place Program opened January 1! [see short link: https://www.cdc.gov/pophealthtraining/] CDC views population health as an interdisciplinary, customizable approach that allows health departments…

ONE HEALTH INCLUDES MENTAL HEALTH “In the middle of the past century, Dr. Brock Chisholm [https://www.who.int/dg/chisholm/chisholm/en/], who was the first Director-General of the World Health Association (WHO), famously stated that “without mental health there can be no true physical health”. With that truism, as a psychiatrist, I strongly endorse the philosophy and action of the…

Three outstanding educational “One Health” oral discussions worthy of repeating and listening to before the New Year arrives …     A must view comprehensive One Health talk…One Health Expert Addresses Library of Congress – Monday, August 29, 2016   One Health Expert Addresses Library of Congress   SEE: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7365   TITLE: One Health SPEAKER:…

Disease detectives trap bats to solve mysteries of Marburg, and more Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 12/20/2018 10:25 AM EST Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Highlights of our recent work to prevent the spread of infectious diseases December 2018 Disease detectives trap bats…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases | One Health Office December 2018 Disease detectives trap bats in Uganda to solve the mysteries of Marburg   Python Cave in Uganda is not only home to snakes, but to thousands of Egyptian fruit bats. Several recent human cases…

Rabies in the Americas (RITA) Kansas State Rabies Laboratory will be hosting the 30th Annual Conference of Rabies in the Americas (RITA) in Kansas City, Missouri (USA) October 27-31, 2019 To learn more about the conference, please visit: www.rabiesintheamericas.org

‘One Health’ keeps humans one step ahead of the microbes December 12, 2018    For a healthy planet, the health of all living creatures is equally important. One Health is a fairly new concept that prioritizes an interdisciplinary approach in science — to preserve the health of animals, humans and the environment. It is an approach…

Similar action by medical students needed worldwide!   Medical students taking action on AMR European Public Health Alliance Another successful initiative aimed to raise the awareness and promote One Health was launched by the World Health Students Alliance. Together … “… Blanca Paniello and Vicky Kastner International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is…

One Health Series: The Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance National Institute For Animal Agriculture December 5, 2018 12:37 PM       One Health Series: The Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance Drovers Magazine In 2001, *Dr. Laura Kahn was a student at Princeton University, pursuing a master’s degree in public policy. Then, Sept. 11 changed her career.…

    Federation of Veterinarians of Europe  PRESS RELEASE Bruxelles, 5 December 2018  Dentists, Doctors and Veterinarians call for the implementation of a One Health culture in undergraduate education Today at the conference ‘Implementation of One Health in undergraduate education’ in Paris, academics, practitioners and… Read more “The professional and student organisations representing medical doctors, the…

One Goal – One Health IVSA SCOH http://www.ivsa-committees.org/one-health   Published on Dec 3, 2018 This video explains the general concept of One Health and how it all started.   SEE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKtA7iy8GNU&feature=share

Notable One Health activity this past year…     Monthly Newsletters https://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/monthly-newsletters/   2018 December: Evidence for Zoonotic Enteroviruses | Collaboration for Avian Influenza Surveillance in Myanmar https://mailchi.mp/a01f5cfd9c15/december-issue November: Polymarivus as a Possible Explanation for Respiratory Illnesses| New Collaborative Work with Duke One Health October: First Use of Bioaerosol Sampling in a Vietnamese Live Poultry Market |…

A pertinent One Health issue continuing and increasingly critical to address ASAP… Confronting Emerging Zoonoses, The One Health Paradigm (2014) Editors: Yamada, A., Kahn, L.H., Kaplan, B., Monath, Th.P., Woodall, J., Conti, L. (Eds.)  https://www.springer.com/us/book/9784431551195

Questions and Answers on the new legislation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (VMP) and … SEE: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-18-6562_en.htm EU News They reflect the priorities laid down in the European One Health action plan against AMR adopted in June 2017 by the European Commission, which …   “What has been adopted today? After 4 years of negotiations, the Regulations…