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Rockefeller Foundation Bestows Grant to Fund National One Health Commission Posted : Thursday, 05 Mar 2009 Author : American Veterinary Medical Association   AVMA Receives Grant   Read more… http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/rockefeller-foundation-bestows-grant-to-fund-national-one-health-commission,739717.shtml  

Nature Medicine 15, 227 (1 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/nm0309-227a Royal Society urges integration of human and veterinary medicine www.nature.com/nm/journal/v15/n3/full/nm0309-227a.html

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA), HUMAN, ZOO ELEPHANT – USA: (CALIFORNIA) 2008**************************************************************************A ProMED-mail post<http://www.promedmail.org>ProMED-mail is a program of theInternational Society for Infectious Diseases<http://www.isid.org Date: Fri 6 Mar 2009Source: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2009; 58(08):194-198 [edited]<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5808a3.htm?s_cid=mm5808a3_e> Methicillin-resistant _Staphylococcus aureus_ (MRSA) infections are amajor cause of human skin and soft tissue infections in the UnitedStates (1). MRSA colonization…

  Excerpted from         Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER)               27 February 2009, vol. 84, 9 (pp 65–76) http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8409/en/index.html  “Influenza A (H5N1) From September 2008 to 11 February 2009, 21 human Cases of influenza A (H5N1) were confirmed in Cambodia, China, Egypt, Indonesia and Viet Nam.  Many of these people had visited live bird markets or had…

USDA Office of the Chief Economist Agricultural Outlook Forum, 2009 Arlington, Virginia February 26 – 27, 2009  Scroll Down to Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.  Food Safety Track  One World, One Health: Issues at the Intersection of Animal & Human Health  One World, One Health: Issues at the Intersection of Animal & Human HealthModerator: Cindy…

The International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED 2009)Vienna, Austria Was held: February 13-16, 2009, Hotel Hilton The co-sponsors of the meeting were ProMED-mail, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control  (ECDC), World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), The European Commission, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. By all accounts, the presentations were outstanding ‘One…

Environmental Health and One Health Environmental Health is Core Public Health at your Service! Dr. Lisa Conti, Director Please see our 10-minute introduction to the Department’s Environmental Health Programs http://www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/learning/hse/index.htm Division of Environmental Health Florida Department of Health 4052 Bald Cypress Way, BIN A-08 Tallahassee, FL 32399 (850) 245-4250 Please tell us how we are…

Prominent One Health Advocate and Kansas Public Health Veterinarian Now Working for U. S. Senator as AVMA Congressional Fellow   Note: The physician-veterinarian One Health team of Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM and Thomas P. Monath, MD recently requested an update on the career of Dr. Gail Hansen [DVM, MPH], formerly…

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Officials driven to take closer look at food safety The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, February 15, 2009  http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/02/15/foodrule0215.html To One Health Supporters/Advocates:   Consider writing a 400 – 1000 word article (with appropriate photographs if available) giving pros and/or cons and remedies for the food safety dilemma in the U.S. today. Submit to the “One Health…

Peanuts Salmonella-tainted foods expanded to PET FOODS Please See: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/02/04/2009-02-04_peanut_corp_update_recall_of_salmonellat.html  Also see associated MMWR article on Publications page:  http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications.php

                  New ProMED-mail access featuring One Health items                            Co-Founder of ProMED-mail Joins One Health Initiative Website                               http://www.onehealthinitiative.com                The ‘Kahn-Kaplan-Monath’ One Health team is proud to announce that John (Jack) Woodall, MA, PhD has agreed to be the ProMED-mail “Contents Manager/Editor” for a newly established ProMED-mail page on the One Health Initiative website.  One…

The Alliance for Rabies Control's February 2009 newsletter is now available on our website at:                 WWW.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter11.pdf  Articles include rabies updates from Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mozambique and Brazil, oral vaccination in wildife in the US, rabies in Ethiopian wolves and vaccine regimen. There is also news about World Rabies Day, the student essay prize winner and…

Nature’s perfect food isn’t perfect   By Jan M. Sargeant, DVM, PhD From Thursday’s Globe and Mail January 29, 2009  http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090128.wcomilk29/BNStory/specialComment/home   Provided by: J.E.B. Graham, DVM Toronto, Ontario Canada   Author of the book “SOW’S EAR to SILK PURSE” Anecdotes from the Life of a Veterinarian

January 14, 2009   Tuberculosis in a dog in Ontario, Canada   Summary: A report in the latest newsletter from the University of Guelph Animal Health Laboratory describes a case of tuberculosis (TB) in a pet dog. The dog was a seven-year-old Bichon Frise that had an abdominal mass, low-grade fever, nasal discharge…   View…

  Bird flu found in British Columbia turkey farm   This is the first report of confirmed H5N1 in North America.   http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/397386_birdflu25.html

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists             January 15, 2009            “Modeling disease spread”  http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/modeling-disease-spread   By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP       Research Scholar         Program on Science and Global Security         Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs        Princeton University

January 12, 2009 ONE HEALTH NEWSLETTER – 2009 Winter Issue Published … http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html The One Health Newsletter’s 2009 Winter Issue is now published online.  It contains a variety of interesting and pertinent One Health articles. Among items of note is a “One Health Steering Committee Update” by Carina Blackmore, DVM, PhD.  Dr. Blackmore is Chair…

Veterinary Public Health (VPH) group at American Public Health Association (APHA) Decides to Orient Towards “One Health Initiatives”  The Veterinary Public Health (VPH) group at the American Public Health Association (APHA) October 2008 convention in San Diego, California decided to orient their VPH, Special Primary Interest Group (SPIG) towards the “One Health Initiative”.    The…

Supercourse Library of Lectures   The original power point slide presentation of Thomas P. Monath, MD to the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) in March, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) entitled  “One Medicine/One Health”: Personal Reflections of a True Believer” is now posted in the Supercourse Library of Lectures and may be uploaded…