One Health News

“One Health” Air Force Veterinarian Receives U.S. Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Fellowship   Major Thomas Doker (DVM, DACVPM, MPH, CPH), the public health flight chief for the 82nd Aerospace Medical Squadron at Sheppard Air Force Base in Frederick, Oklahoma, was recently chosen for a fellowship with the…

Kentucky (USA) Veterinary Medical Association History Book contains One Health Feature   Please see PDF link http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One_Health_from100_Year_book.pdf to read complete One Health chapter…     “Celebrating 100 Years of Compassionate Care, 1911 – 2011, a new book released by the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association (KVMA), is now available for online purchase www.kvma.org.  Its 120 pages…

One Health Program Progress Report from the Netherlands   Reported by: Arno Vermeulen PhD, Managing Director, Immuno Valley ALTANT programme, Yalelaan 42, 3584 CM Utrecht, The Netherlands P: +31 30 253 1142 –  M: +31 6 46311342   Please see December 7, 2011 PRESS RELEASE – PDF link http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Press%20Release%20Immuno%20Valley%20ALTANT%2020111207%20(2).pdf   … ‘One Health’: animals and humans…

Historic One Health Resolution (USA)…   National League of Cities · Adopted at the 2011 Congress of Cities · November 12, 2011 (USA)  2012 Energy, Environment and Natural Resources  Pg.68 & 69   NLC RESOLUTION #2012-17 – ONE HEALTH INITIATIVE [Please see http://alturl.com/tz5gx and http://alturl.com/zh45j]   WHEREAS, cities depend on the health and vitality of their…

Infection Ecology and Epidemiology Journal – Citation: Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2011, 1: 8293 – DOI: 10.3402/iee.v1i0.8293 CASE STUDY One health national programme across species on zoonoses: a call to the developing world Asokan G. V., Dr1*, Vanitha Asokan, Dr2 and Prathap Tharyan, Dr3 1College of Health Sciences, Kingdom of Bahrain; 2American Mission Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain; 3South Asian Cochrane Network &…

One Health Initiative website team Honorary Advisory Board Joined by New Member   November 25, 2011—The One Health Initiative honorary Advisory Board was established on December 1, 2010. Today, we are pleased to announce that among the current outstanding One Health supporters/advocates and recognized leaders, The Mayor of Moscow, Idaho (USA), Nancy Chaney, RN, BA,…

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…