One Health Publications

By Dr. Michael W. Fox*

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” –Helen Keller.

“ . . . ONE HEALTH AND THE RECOVERY OF OUR SANITY AND EARTH

The recovery of our sanity and humanity to make informed, science and ethics-based decisions for the greater good and the good of the Commons will help heal us, the planet and all our relations. This One Health initiative must be the primary agenda of civil society which I pray every nation state and community will embrace and include under the rule of law.( For details visit https://www.onehealthinitiative.com) . Nature is not something that is separate from us: We are part of Nature. When we poison the environment is it no surprise to find poisons in mothers’ wombs and milk?

. . .  would be a good beginning toward living in harmony with all life, the spiritual root of One Health and the antidote to our pathogenic anthropocentrism. Indeed, Global Sustainability via a One Health approach as a moral compass is critical to our planet’s survival and thereby ourselves.”

*The author is a veterinarian with doctoral degrees in ethology/animal behavior and medical science from the University of London, England. He is a member of the British Veterinary Association, Honor Roll member of the American Veterinary Medical Association and writes the U.S. syndicated newspaper column Animal Doctor. He acknowledges the helpful comments by Dr. Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Dipl. AVES (Hon.), CDC/EIS63 Contents Manager/Editor One Health Initiative Website, Co-Founder One Health Initiative team/website in the completion of this article.

SEE https://drfoxonehealth.com/post/a-reflection-on-animals-nature-and-the-human-condition/ via https://drfoxonehealth.com/tags/public-health/

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OHNL 2021 – VOLUME 13, ISSUE 2

The event leads to G20 recommendations in the pursuit of operationalising One Health: an increase in the numbers of animal health workforce as well as providing effective training and upskilling; access to a reliable supply of safe and effective medicines to treat animals, as well as vaccines to prevent zoonotic, and non-zoonotic disease; work with animal owners to support a global early warning surveillance system that proactively identifies risk; development, implementation and resourcing of national one health plans that encourage the pooling of resources between human health, animal health and environmental health. Side event promoted by Action for Animal Health coalition.

BY *Dr. George R. Lueddeke [Ph.D., MEd, Dipl. AVES (Hon.)] is an education advisor in higher, medical and One Health education and leads the international One Health for One Planet Education initiative (1 HOPE) in association with national and global organisations.

*Member One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board

Will decision-makers have the political will and leadership capacity to make the world more sustainable or will self-interest prevail?  – Excerpt from George Lueddeke’s Latest Book SURVIVAL

The One Health Initiative team has been notified that the most recent First Edition of “One Health” journals, the “Journal of One Health and Implementation Research”, Volume 1, Issue 1, an Open-Access” journal has been published and can be read at https://ohirjournal.com/journal/archives.

There are six articles in the first issue of the journal. You may refer to detailed individual article information in https://onehealthinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/One-Health-Implementation-Research-volume-1-issue-1.docx.

Provided October 8, 2021 by:

Hanlie Su, Editor of the journal One Health & Implementation Research, with the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Jorg Heukelbach

GLOBAL HEALTH

By Vince Chadwick, Jenny Lei Ravelo // 16 September 2021

“… Martin McKee, chair of the commission’s scientific advisory board, told reporters that the most important recommendation is to embed the concept of “one health” — recognizing the importance of addressing threats to human health but also plants, animals, and the environment — at all levels.

This will require better coordination and collaboration among international agencies, such as WHO, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the World Organisation for Animal Health, also known as OIE. But the commission stopped short of recommending a merger of some of these institutions, as had been advocated by some members. …

… “But ultimately each of these organisations has responsibilities beyond those that intersect and has its own policy and knowledge community to work with and bring to the One Health table — and a full merger could make it harder rather than easier to bring all these domains together,” he wrote. …”

THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY

From Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Published on 1 October 2021 Last updated on 1 October 2021

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) invites eligible Irish Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) to submit joint research proposals under the European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) Co-fund for International Co-ordination of Research on Infectious Animal Diseases (ICRAD) with a ‘One Health Approach to Zoonoses Research & Innovation’.

What it means in pandemic times: How far do your obligations to fellow citizens go?

An Official Pennsylvania Government Website

ONE HEALTH

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[Dr.] Michael Watson: Actually, APHIS has already provided crucial support for SARS-CoV-2 testing in animals during the COVID-19 pandemic. And I mentioned before, confirming infections in mink as well as many other species. And so, our wildlife services unit actually does do testing in wildlife species. So that that’s part of their mission and our veterinary services unit does the work with captive species. And so, it is our mission to test wild and captive species. But as you mentioned, it does require a broader scope of work across the federal government and our partner. So, what we want to utilize is a one health approach. And a one health approach embraces the idea that the complex problems that affect health of humans, animals and the environment, are best solved during improved communication, cooperation, and collaboration across disciplines and sectors. And so we look to partner with those agencies working to protect animal health, public health and environmental health, including wildlife. And this will include at the federal level, CDC, Department of Interior, FDA, and other partners. This also includes work with tribal nations. At the state level, in addition to animal health partners, we look at state wildlife and public health agencies as well. So it’s kind of an all encompassing view. So it’s a public health part, animal health and wildlife health as well. So it’s all three components that we’re looking at.  …”

by *Richard Seifman – Board Member, United Nations Association-National Capital Area  September 23, 2021  Impact, Politics & Foreign Affairs, United Nations

• Public Advocacy: 

” … For many years, an impending UN General Assembly that always happens in September, galvanizes international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to accelerate advocacy and action. Many prepare special documents explicitly for framing the global issues for future speakers, debates, and the discussion to come.

One such NGO is the Stimson Center which produced “Building Back Together Greener: Twenty Initiatives for a Just, Healthy, and Sustainable Global Recovery.”  While the title focuses on climate change concerns, the proposed initiatives run the gamut from **Adopting a new global digit deal to Zoonotics, which is part of the human/animal/ecosystem interface, in other words, One Health.  …”

* Member, One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team’s Advisory Board

** See Section 5 and paragraph 11 in the Executive Summary for the explicit One Health recommendation and go to page 46 and paragraph 5.1 for more detail.

Research Open Access Published: 19 September 2021

Background

During the period of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, strong intervention measures, such as lockdown, travel restriction, and suspension of work and production, may have curbed the spread of other infectious diseases, including natural focal diseases. In this study, we aimed to study the impact of COVID-19 prevention and control measures on the reported incidence of natural focal diseases (brucellosis, malaria, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome [HFRS], dengue, severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome [SFTS], rabies, tsutsugamushi and Japanese encephalitis [JE]).

Conclusions

Interventions for COVID-19 may help control the epidemics of natural focal diseases in Jiangsu Province. The reported incidence of natural focal diseases, especially malaria and dengue, decreased during the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020. COVID-19 prevention and control measures had the greatest impact on the reported incidence of natural focal diseases in males and people in the 20–60-year age group.