One Health News

Reminder…   The First World Research and Innovation Congress is scheduled June 5 & 6, 2013 – Brussels, Belgium   The first World Research and Innovation Congress www.worldresearchcongress.com – Pioneers in Healthcare conference takes place at the Steigenberger Grandhotel, Brussels, Belgium on the 5 and 6 June, 2013. Bringing together over 500 of the world’s…

The Novel H7N9 Influenza A Virus: Its Present Impact and Indeterminate Future   Robert E. Kahn, PhD and Juergen A. Richt, DVM, PhD, Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD), Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS (USA)   “Influenza A viruses are unpredictable in their emergence, ability to mutate or reassort, and especially…

Prominent Physician and Veterinarian Jointly Discuss “One Health” Human-Animal Comparative Medicine Presentations – RE: Asthma  By Frank Adams, MD, FCCP and Ann Hohenhaus, DVM, DACVIM  *Drs. Frank Adams, a physician http://www.adamsmd.com/PatientPortal/MyPractice.aspx?UAID={615E3AE9-8B58-48AC-B39F-1753B798DB1E}&TabID={1} ; http://www.siriusxm.com/doctorradio, and Ann Hohenhaus http://www.amcny.org/node/20, a veterinarian, are both One Health supporters.  Together, in this article provided exclusively to the One Health Initiative…

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) One Health Physician gives lecture at University of Florida (USA) “On Friday, April 5, Kathleen F. Gensheimer, MD gave a lecture to UF students and faculty titled “FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network: A Multidisciplinary/One Health Approach to Foodborne Outbreak Investigations”. Dr. Gensheimer is the Chief Medical Officer/Director…

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Supports One Health  “CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Infectious Diseases is committed to maximizing the health of people in the United States and globally by preventing and controlling emerging and zoonotic infections. Under the leadership of Director Beth P. Bell, MD, MPH, Beth P. Bell the Center works…

Important One Health Educational Opportunity released…   The United Kingdom’s Edinburgh University Announces Launch of New Online Distance Learning One Health Master of Science Program   “The University of Edinburgh is launching a new Master of Science (MSc) degree program in One Health.  It is for working professionals looking to study the complex relationships and…

Public Health Doyen to Celebrate 100th Birthday     James H. Steele, DVM, MPH, a leading veterinary medical public health figure in the 20th and early 21st centuries, is celebrating his 100th birthday on April 3, 2013.  Indeed, many of the world’s notable public health figures will be celebrating the remarkable accomplishments of Dr. James…

Important One Health Meeting Announcement reminder… Plan now to attend the Medical Library Association 2013 Conference in Boston & meet your International Colleagues   May 3-8, 2013 Boston, MA (USA)   http://www.mlanet.org/am/am2013/about/index.html   Among other prominent One Health speakers will be One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team member Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP…

One Health Chapter—A First—Included in Prominent Public Health Textbook  Jekel’s Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health, 4th Edition …Chapter 30—One Health: Interdependence of People, Other Species, and the Planet… Barrett, M. A. and S. A. Osofsky. 2013. “One Health: Interdependence of People, Other Species, and the Planet,” pp. 364-377 (and online supplement pp. 407(e1)-416(e10)…

NEW!  One Health position opening…   One Health Research Coordinator   Starting this summer at the new “Center for One Health” at University of Washington – Seattle, Washington (USA)   The job posting is Req # 93436 in the University of Washington job listings, please see link below:   https://uwhires.admin.washington.edu/eng/candidates/default.cfm?szCategory=jobprofile&szOrderID=93436&szCandidateID=0&szSearchWords=&szReturnToSearch=1   Prospective candidates should apply…

One Health collaborative cancer research: Texas A & M College of Veterinary Medicine and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center …”Treating dogs with cancer provides us with a great comparative oncology model for humans,” said Colleen O’Connor, Ph.D., post-doctoral fellow at MD Anderson and one of the primary investigators on the study. “We learned…

One Health Discussed at American Association of Public Health Physician’s (AAPHP) Annual Meeting   At the February 22, 2013 Annual meeting of the American Association of Public Health Physician’s (AAPHP) , President Virginia Dato, MD, MPH noted that lifetime member and One Health liaison representative *Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP presented a cogent One Health…

Excellent One Health blog and video…   Internal Medicine News – “News and Views that Matter to Physicians”   One Health Explores Animal to Human Spread of Disease   “People don’t live in bubbles; people live on a planet teeming with animals and pathogens, a frothing soup that simmers or boils depending on how the…

Exciting One Health opportunities:   The “One Health” Concept: Bringing Together Human and Animal Health for New Solutions   Information available from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation   Please see http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Topics/Pages/OneHealthRound11.aspx … and sign up for email updates in the top right hand corner, i.e. Sign up for email updates.

One Health in Action… Methacillin-Resistant Staphylococcal aureus (MRSA) in Pets Needs Additional Biomedical Research Studies: Regarding potential “human-animal inter-species transmission”. “…The healthy pets living with humans infected with MRSA have been tested and some found to carry the MRSA which appears to be the same in both the pet and the human. …” Please see…

Yellow fever – Threat to Asia   In view of China instituting yellow fever vaccination for its aid workers traveling to Sudan, and health checks on citizens returning from there, because of the recent epidemic there, the following 2 relevant slide presentations have been uploaded to the Supercourse site http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/*:   Yellow fever: threat to…

One Health Supporter and Former Extraordinary U.S. Surgeon General Dies   We are sad to report that C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD, former U.S. Surgeon General (1981-1989), died February 25, 2013 at age 96.  Dr. Koop, a physician, was a visionary early supporter of the One Health initiative:   In an email message to One Health Initiative…

Important “One Health in Action”… veterinarian, medical microbiologist and physician working collaboratively on zoonotic disease pathogen   “Cat Scratch Disease”: *Much More to it than Many Thought!     Neurological Manifestations of Bartonellosis in Immunocompetent Patients: A composite of reports from 2005-2012   Please see: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/BreitschwerdtJNeuroparasitolReview2012.pdf Edward B. Breitschwerdt, DVM, DACVIM1, Sushama Sontakke, PhD1,2, Sarah…

World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) Editorial – A visionary commentary “One Health” Sixty percent of the pathogens that cause diseases in humans are of animal origin. These diseases, known as zoonoses, can be transmitted by domestic or wild animals. Animal diseases that are transmissible to humans, such as avian influenza, rabies, brucellosis and bovine…

One Health in Action…   Ireland Veterinarian in association with Dublin City of Science 2012 Develop Unique One Health Video   An unusual, unique and most dramatic One Health Utube video was recently developed by Dr. Sean J. Callanan http://www.ucd.ie/conway/research/researchers/conwayfellowsa-z/professorseancallanan/, a veterinary medical pathologist from Ireland, “in collaboration with film students and academics/researchers in an…