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April 22, 2020 Press Releases on the Confirmation of COVID-19 in Two Pet Cats in New York U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/s0422-covid-19-cats-NYC.html U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDAAPHIS/bulletins/287d882

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – April 21, 2020:  Media Contact: Hannah Kleckner Hall Associate Director of Communications University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine kleck@vet.upenn.edu | 610.925.624 Original release can be viewed HERE.  https://www.vet.upenn.edu/about/press-room/press-releases/article/how-does-a-pandemic-impact-our-relationship-with-food-a-new-penn-survey-seeks-insights   How does a pandemic impact our relationship with food? A new Penn survey seeks insights  A newly launched internet survey led…

THE WIRE SCIENCE@THEWIRESCIENCE Why We Need the World Health Organisation Now More Than Ever https://science.thewire.in/health/why-we-need-the-world-health-organisation-now-more-than-ever/ The Wire These various frameworks are combined into a One Health initiative to account for the intimate interactions between people, animals, and plants in … “… As for R&D and sharing knowledge, the recommendations argue for reducing impact of pandemics, speeding up commercial production of…

A treasure trove of valuable One Health concept/approach information vis-à-vis the current COVID-19 pandemic challenge… Knowable Magazine is from Annual Reviews, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society. Infectious disease: Making — and breaking — the animal connection We know pathogens from other…

Rep. Schrader Urges Swift Passage of Bipartisan Pandemic Prevention Legislation [One Health legislation: “The Advancing Emergency Preparedness through One Health Act of 2019] For Immediate Release https://schrader.house.gov/newsroom/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=392783 April 15, 2020 Contact: Larkin Parker, 202-225-5711  Rep. Schrader Urges Swift Passage of Bipartisan Pandemic Prevention Legislation WASHINGTON, D.C. –Congressman Kurt Schrader (D-OR) and Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL)…

Rutgers Experts Available to Discuss Environmental Protection During COVID-19 Crisis Newswise (press release) … wastewater-based epidemiology, combined sewer overflows, the One Water movement, the One Health Initiative and private well water quality. SEE: https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/rutgers-experts-available-to-discuss-environmental-protection-during-covid-19-crisis/?article_id=729940

The NJ One Health initiative started when scientists, physicians, veterinarians, public health officials, advocates and the general public realized that to ...

Mongabay.org | Environmental Journalism … mongabay.org     April 8, 2020 Will the next coronavirus come from Amazonia? Deforestation and the risk of infectious diseases (commentary) “… The various steps in identifying factors that contribute to the emergence and transfer of infectious diseases come under the umbrella of a “one-health perspective,” which considers the health…

  Wednesday, April 08, 2020 Opinion: Coronavirus outbreak stresses need for One Health and animal biotech advancement By Dana O’Brien Executive Vice President, Food & Agriculture Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) SEE: https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/13437-opinion-coronavirus-outbreak-stresses-need-for-one-health-and-animal-biotech-advancement    “… Society was woefully unprepared for this pandemic. We must employ modern approaches to be ready for future outbreaks. One Health collaboration eliminates barriers…

The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis reinforces the essential and critical worldwide necessity for highlighting, recognizing and institutionalizing the principles of the One Health concept/approach i.e. “One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.” The One Health concept is a…

One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH ▪ Thomas M. Yuill, PhD ▪ Helena J. Chapman, MD, MPH, PhD ▪ Craig N. Carter, DVM, PhD     ‘Shut down those things right away’: Calls…

Life of the Mind Q&A: Laura Kahn *02 on COVID’s Spread and How We Defeat It Princeton Alumni Weekly My book One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance, and the One Health concept that I develop there and elsewhere, shows how human …  SEE: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/qa-laura-kahn-02-covids-spread-and-how-we-defeat-it

How to face the COVID-19 real world threat with masks? An important descriptive means for creating homemade face masks is carefully and intelligently described by physician public health luminary and member of the One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php, Virginia M. Dato, MD, MPH – Past President and webmaster American Association of Public Health…

Since its onset, Dr. Fauci has been and is seen as one of the foremost trustworthy public health voices on the coronavirus crisis   U.S. National Institute of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH/NIAID) Physician Director, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci Addresses One Health… – first POSTED One Health Initiative website Friday, March 09,…

Follow directives to avoid spreading COVID-19 pictouadvocate.com – Nova Scotia March 25, 2020. Follow directives to avoid spreading COVID-19 pictouadvocate.com The One Health initiative is a movement to forge co-equal, all-inclusive collaborations between physicians, osteopathic physicians, veterinarians, … SEE: https://pictouadvocate.com/2020/03/25/follow-directives-to-avoid-spreading-covid-19/  

March 27, 2020 Notice to One Health Initiative team:  Confronting Emerging Zoonoses Book Selected as Related to COVID19 studies                     *“Your Springer Book Confronting Emerging Zoonoses, especially chapters ‘One Health: From Concept to Practice’, ‘Drivers of Emerging Zoonotic Infectious Diseases’, ‘Field Epidemiology and One Health’, and ‘One Health and Food Safety’ were selected to be COVID-19…

HeadScratchers Season 2 Podcast with Dr. Gregory Gray [MD, MPH]: Coronavirus, Why Did it Catch Us Off Guard?  See: https://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/media/podcasts/ Dr. Gray is a longstanding member of the One Health Initiative Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php and an Honorary Diplomate of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) https://www.avesociety.org/.

            The COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly escalating globally and putting an enormous strain on medical and other front-line health and community services everywhere. It seems very wrong and irresponsible for us to continue to plan on holding the Congress in Edinburgh in June, and potentially place you and all our…

New study explores the benefits of a One Health approach to investigating antimicrobial resistance … CGIAR In Vietnam, antimicrobial resistance in animal and human health settings poses a significant threat, but one that could be minimised by adopting a One … SEE: https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/new-study-explores-the-benefits-of-a-one-health-approach-to-investigating-antimicrobial-resistance-in-vietnam

  March 26, 2020 1:30 – 2:30 PM Lecture Bats, Cats and Coronaviruses: What You Need to Know About COVID-19 (Livestream) https://www.simonsfoundation.org/event/bats-cats-and-coronaviruses-what-you-need-to-know-about-covid-19/ Laura H. Kahn, M.D., M.P.H., M.P.P.* Princeton University           *A co-founder One Health Initiative team and website  This event will be streamed live. We will have the streaming link. Register All participants are…