One Health News

Outstanding USA Motivational Educator and One Medicine (One Health) Advocate Dies *By Dennis Thompson, DVM, MPVM,  Ronald D. Warner, DVM, MPVM, PhD, James L. Alexander, DVM, MPVM, Thomas L. Cropper, DVM, MPVM, James H. Wright, DVM, MPVM Margaret E. Meyer, PhD (1923-2010), died on October 8th, 2010, after a long, distinguished career as a microbiologist…

  Highly Successful One Health Sessions Reported from United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) 114th Annual Meeting The American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians  (AAVLD 53rd Annual Conference) in conjunction with the United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) Annual meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) held their first ever One Health Sessions on Saturday November 13th, 2010 and Monday…

Reprinted (Text only) from One Health Newsletter Fall Issue http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/newsletter.php   The One Health Initiative through a 50-Year Lens   Robert E. Dedmon, MD, MPH, FACP, FACOEM           ‘There are no passengers on spaceship Earth. We are all crew.’                                                                    – Marshall Mcluhan   The ‘50-year lens’ refers to my 50-plus years in medicine…

Jack Woodall, PhD, member of the One Health Initiative Website team, giving a One Health Initiative poster presentation at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) www.astmh.org – 59thAnnual Meeting – in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) on Friday, November 5, 2010.  The poster presentation by Dr. Woodall was held in conjunction with an important and successful…The One Health Initiative Symposium: Vaccination…

One Health focused Training Opportunity offering PhD at Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio (USA)   The Food Animal Health Research Program at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University located in Wooster, Ohio is offering a training opportunity leading to a PhD degree in Veterinary Medicine, Food Science or Public Health. …

Reminder: Upcoming IMPORTANT ONE HEALTH MEETING SESSIONS Sample Abstracts for Upcoming One Health Meeting (Go to the meeting, there are other excellent talks): November 11-17, 2010 United States Animal Health Association (USAHA)114th Annual Meeting – Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA) http://www.usaha.org/meetings/2010/ American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD)53rd Annual Conference For more information on AAVLD programs, please…

Press announcement  10 November, 2010   Immuno Valley [the Netherlands] is funded €1.5 Million [$2.09 Million USA Dollars] to concert the combat against infectious diseases of animals and humans   Life Sciences network Immuno Valley announces to receive over  €1.5 Million [$2.09 Million USA Dollars] of funding to roll-out their viPps program 2011-2014. Immuno Valley…

Canadian Physicians Publish Outstanding “One Health Editorial” in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases   A notable “One Health Editorial” was published in the current edition of The Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology Autumn 2010, Volume 21 Issue 3 entitled “The One Health paradigm: Time for infectious diseases clinicians to take note?”.    The…

One Health   By Lynn Lauterbach, BS Science teacher and curriculum coordinator Loveland, Colorado (USA)   I’ve heard it said that “none of us are as smart as all of us.” My role as a teacher reinforces this each day in the triumphs of successful moments and the failures when cooperation falls short. Additionally, this…

Reaction from Prominent Nigerian Virologist/Educator to Death of One Health Leader, virologist Dr. Graham Kemp   By Oyewale Tomori, DVM, PhD       Redeemer’s University, Redemption Camp,       Km. 46 Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State       P. O. Box 7914, Ikeja, Lagos State       TEL: 234 1-7931780,      website:www.run.edu.ng   The news of Graham’s death is another…

Last Reminder: You won’t want to miss this one! The One Health Initiative Symposium: Vaccination of Animals for Prevention and Control of Zoonotic Diseases American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) – 59th Annual Meeting – www.astmh.org November 3-7, 2010 Marriott Atlanta Marquis Hotel Atlanta, Georgia (USA)   A symposium organized jointly by members…

One Health Initiative Website team Joins U.S. National Vet2011 Committee In the spirit of “One Health”, the One Health Initiative website team, composed of two physicians, a veterinarian and a research scientist, has happily accepted an invitation from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) to join the U.S. National Vet2011 committee, in order to participate…

One Health Leader – Outstanding Veterinary Medical Epidemiologist/Virologist Dr. Graham Kemp Dies   By Thomas P. Monath, MD   Graham Kemp, DVM, MPH, who died in Ft Collins CO on October 25, 2010, was a leader in One Health and some of his accomplishments are highlighted in the One Health in Action series (see http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/195.pdf). …

“Two new tools… designed to advance One Health …” Wildlife Health Reporting Tools May Help Prevent Human Illness Released: 10/25/2010 9:00:00 AM Two new tools that enable the public to report sick or dead wild animals could also lead to the detection and containment of wildlife disease outbreaks that may pose a health risk to…

One Health website launched for “The Yale Human Animal Medicine Project”: a center for One Health studies at Yale The One Health Initiative website has been notified on October 26, 2010 by physician, Peter Rabinowitz, MD, MPH about a valuable new One Health project and website launched at Yale. Please see http://tools.medicine.yale.edu/humananimalmedicine/index.html “Recent events have highlighted the convergence…

One Health Newsletter Fall Issue now online – October 28, 2010   A product of the Florida Department of Health (USA), Division of Environmental Health   Editor: Mary Echols, DVM, MPH  http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) One Health Office Launches Historic ONE HEALTH Website The One Health Initiative website was notified October 25, 2010 that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) office of One Health has launched their new ONE HEALTH website: http://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/ Please see the website’s related links…

The following is a preview abstract of a “Rinderpest” presentation to be given by Dr. Paul Gibbs at:   The One Health Initiative Symposium: Vaccination of Animals for Prevention and Control of Zoonotic Diseases   American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene – 59th Annual Meeting – www.astmh.org   November 3-7, 2010 Marriott Atlanta Marquis…

One Health History Study Award Granted To London Imperial College (UK) from Wellcome Trust     “The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London, England, has won a prestigious, 5-year award from the Wellcome Trust to study the history of One Health. Worth over £0.5m [over $792,000 at current U.S.…

One Health in ACTION – 2nd Article in Tuberculosis Series   Human tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean   By de Kantor I N,  LoBue P A, Thoen C O.  [Dr. Isabel de Kantor is a PhD; Dr. Philip LoBue is a physician; and Dr. Charles Thoen…