One Health News

News – London International Development Centre   Maasai Vets [veterinarians] Carry Out Disease Surveillance of 86,000 Animals With Google Mobile Phones 05 August 2010 “Mobile phones enable vets to upload information about diseases and vaccinations (shown by the coloured markers) to a project website. Credit: EpiCollect Maasai vets in East Africa are using mobile phones…

Reminder… Important Rabies Webinars: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 The Global Alliance for Rabies Control and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are co-hosting four Webinars on World Rabies Day 2010. There is no cost to attend the Webinars but you must register for each Webinar separately, using the links provided, e.g.: Webinar #2: 9:00-11:15am (EST)…

Why the environment and environmental change matter to One Health   Submitted By: Meredith A. Barrett Meredith.barrett@duke.edu, Aaron H. Stoertz, Timothy A. Bouley   Human medicine and veterinary medicine demonstrate a long history of collaboration dating back to the 19th century.  Today, the One Health movement maintains this tradition, yet also increasingly incorporates environmental, public…

CAPRINE ARTHRITIS/ENCEPHALITIS – PHILIPPINES: COMPARATIVE MEDICINE ASPECTS   Please see a notable One Health ProMED-mail posting on One Health Initiative Website ProMED Page - Tuesday, September 21, 2010.  http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/promed.php http://www.promedmail.org/pls/apex/f?p=2400:1001:4788988141084359::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1000,84924  

One Health Advocate/Supporter Website Promotes Global Cancer Awareness   A recent global call to action is now promoted on the “Millennium Medicine Project Global Cancer Initiative” of the Humanitarian Resource Institute.  This website’s One Health advocacy http://www.humanitarian.net/biodefense/fazdc/zdc1/ was previously reported on a One Health Initiative website News item April 24, 2010 (scroll down).  While scrolling…

One Health in ACTION: Human Breast Cancer Comparative Medicine Research Advances at MD Anderson Cancer Center   Physicians, PhDs, and Veterinarians working collaboratively and synergistically   Department of Veterinary Sciences, Michale E. Keeling Center for Comparative Medicine and Research, The University of Texas    Provided September 13, 2010 by:   Christian R. Abee, DVM, MS,…

A One Health Challenge An Innovative Approach to Graduate Public Health Education The Master of Public Health (MPH) Program at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas (USA) is not what one would normally expect from graduate public health education.  While a few other Master of Public Health programs in the United States are aligned with…

One Health Poster Representation at Farm Foundation Symposium by Two Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence   Titled: “One Health – One Medicine – One Environment”   Two outstanding Department of Homeland Security Centers of Excellence—the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD), Kansas State University and National Center for Foreign…

Two Important One Health Tuberculosis Articles – Published by “The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease” The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease publishes articles on all aspects of lung health, including public health-related issues such as training programmes, cost-benefit analysis, legislation, epidemiology, intervention studies and health systems research. The IJTLD is dedicated…

American Medical Association (USA) President Reaffirms Strong Support of One Health     “The AMA strongly supports the One Health Initiative, the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines to attain optimal health for humans, animals, and our environment. More than 60 percent of human infectious diseases and the preponderance of emerging infectious diseases have an animal vector. Better collaboration is…

A second good reason to attend the … “One Health” Session Scheduled for the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), in Orlando, Florida (USA) Monday, January 17,  2011 www.navc.com Remember the first good reason to attend was described about and by Dr. Paul P. Calle.   It was posted on August 13, 2011 (scroll down). Here is…

U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Bernadette Dunham, DVM, PhD Supports AVMA/AMA “One Health” Initiative FDA Veterinarian Newsletter 2007 Volume XXII, No IV – Dr. Dunham Supports AVMA/AMA “One Health” Initiative http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/FDAVeterinarianNewsletter/ucm109489.htm –         Last Updated Version below: 10/28/2009 Dr. Bernadette Dunham, [Current] Director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (USA), is a strong proponent…

A good reason to attend the … “One Health” Session Scheduled for the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), in Orlando, Florida (USA) Monday, January 17,  2011 www.navc.com One of the outstanding featured speakers, a noted wildlife veterinarian will be:   Paul P. Calle, VMD, Dipl ACZMDirector, Zoological Health Global Health Program Wildlife Conservation Society 2300 Southern…

Eco-epidemiology and control of Chagas disease in northern Argentina   A long-term One Health collaborative effort of the University of Buenos Aires (led by Ricardo Gürtler, PhD), Rockefeller and Columbia University (Joel E. Cohen, PhD) and Emory University (Uriel Kitron, PhD, MPH) on the ecology, epidemiology and suppression of Chagas disease in the Argentinean Chaco.…

UPI.com   Science News   Cancer clue found in animal diseases VANCOUVER, British Columbia, July 26 (UPI) — Canadian researchers say an unexpected connection between an animal disease and human cancers could lead to effective cancer therapies. … Read more:   http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/07/26/Cancer-clue-found-in-animal-diseases/UPI-23611280190685/

An OPINION:   One Health or… some health?   When the eagles are silent, parrots begin to jabber. – Winston Churchill    Bruce Kaplan, DVM   The international One Health movement has expanded during the early 21st century.  It even sports the name “One Health” in most circles instead of “One Medicine”, the phrase promoted…

  One Health Article Appears in International Innovation Magazine: Research Media Ltd.   http://www.research-europe.com/   The One Health concept was elucidated in a Question and Answer piece that was recently widely distributed online and in a hard copy format through International Innovation magazine, published June 2010.   Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, a prominent…

The Alliance for Rabies Control’s July 2010 newsletter is now available at:www.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter18

UN News Center   UN agriculture agency adopts new strategy to combat animal disease outbreaks 26 July 2010 – Strengthening measures to prevent and control outbreaks of animal diseases could result in the saving of large amounts of money for governments, the United Nations agriculture agency said today, announcing a new strategy to more effectively…

Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy Academic Health Center — University of Minnesota Experts say H5N1 picture not greatly improved since 2003 http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/jul2310avian2.html Robert Roos   News Editor Jul 23, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – The global H5N1 avian influenza situation has not improved very much since the virus began spreading widely in 2003, and many…