One Health News

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…

  The Flu Contagion   Prepared and submitted to the One Health Initiative website September 19, 2011 by:   Clint McDaniel MPH, CPH Virology Laboratory Technician Global Pathogens Laboratory http://gpl.phhp.ufl.edu Emerging Pathogens Institute Department of Environmental and Global Health College of Public Health and Health Profession University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA)     While…

One Health potential: Promising Animal model for Human Hepatitis C virus Canine [dog] Hepacivirus A report by Kapoor et al. (2011) recently published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal describes a canine homolog of hepatitis C virus (HCV), dubbed canine hepacivirus (CHV), which is closely related to HCV.[1]  CHV is a…

National study on the prioritization of zoonotic diseases in the United States   September 19, 2011—The following message is being circulated on behalf of the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses (CPHAZ) Research Team at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, ON, Canada by the One Health Initiative Team. We encourage you to consider…

Important New – September 2011 Catalog of One Health Activities and Programs (USA) Please see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/One%20Health%20Catalog.pdf Provided by: Will Hueston, DVM, PhD Executive Director, Global Initiative for Food Systems Leadership Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine and      Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health University of Minnesota St. Paul, MN (USA)  Tel:  612-625-5900 Fax: 612-624-4906  Email: …

Reminder…Symposium: One World, One Health, One Medicine – IDSA Annual Meeting Boston, MA (USA) Friday, October 21, 2011: 2:15 PM-4:15 PM, Room 153 ABC  http://idsa.confex.com/idsa/2011/webprogram/Session2361.html Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: ·                  describe the mission of the One Health initiative to unite physicians, veterinarians, and other health care…

Important One Health Announcement    “One Health” Theme for General Medical Library Association Meeting 2013 in Boston, MA (USA)   “The 2013 Medical Library Association Boston, MA (USA) http://mlanet.org/ May 3-8 meeting will incorporate the Medical Library Association, the 11th International Congress on Medical Librarianship (ICML), the 7th International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists…

Panel Discussion NOTICE One Health: The Convergence of Human, Animal and Environmental Health September 15, 2011, 9:00 a.m.  –  Location: MassDiGI at Becker College, 80 William Street, Worcester, MA (USA) The One Health Commission is a call to action for collaboration and cooperation among health science professions, academic institutions, governmental agencies, non-governmental organizations, and industries towards improved…

European Union (EU) One Health Seminar for Veterinary Medical Students   As part of the European Union’s (EU) ongoing campaign to promote the importance of One Health, the Directorate General for Health & Consumers of the European Commission invited veterinary medical faculties from across Europe to nominate student ambassadors who would help spread the important…

Important Essay on the History of One Medicine published in the United Kingdom (soon to be published in the USA): Contained within “The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine”   Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?               “University librarians may well be interested in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, already…

ProMED-mail Staff to Assist One Health Initiative Website with One Health ProMED Postings   September 6, 2011 – Due to the current illness of prominent One Health Initiative website team member *Jack Woodall, PhD, the One Health Initiative website team requested assistance posting One Health related ProMED items on the website’s popular “ProMED Outbreaks Report”…

One Health Initiative website team Honorary Advisory Board Joined by New Member   September 1, 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, Greg Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA has graciously agreed to serve…

American Veterinary Medical Association President Expresses Strong Support for the One Health Initiative   Dr. René A. Carlson, President of thé American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) sent a One Health testimonial message on August 23, 2011 stating thé AVMA’s strong support for the One Health Initiative’s activities promoting “One Health” nationally and globally.   “The…

The “One Health 55-word story”   The One Health Initiative Team invites and encourages “55-word story” One Health submissions for publication on the One Health Initiative website’s News page, the most widely read page.  They must be exactly 55 words, excluding the title.  Appropriate 55-word examples of “One Health” in the experience of all health…