One Health Publications

Volume 12, No. 5, Released July 4, 2025

Sharing news gathered during late May through June 2025

A high priority One Health issue discussed in JGPOH

SEE: One Health at UTMB Advancing Health in Humans, Animals and the Environment on Vimeo

Journal of Global, Public and One Health (JGPOH) https://jgpoh.com/volume-2025

Editorial “Everybody’s Health” PDF

“ … The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the primary federal agency is the main health line of defense and currently led by HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Under his leadership unfortunately, some of its recent and current policy pronouncements and actions do not well serve its stated mission. The authors, with backgrounds, experience and expertise in public health/epidemiology, respectfully contend that our U.S. public health infrastructure, assiduously crafted over the last many decades (80 plus years) may have been irreparably impaired. As a result, its men, women and children are at greater risk in developing illnesses unnecessarily and will die prematurely for decades to come. And assuredly this is tied in part to harmful health illiteracy (9) repercussions much of which is associated with encouragement of vaccine hesitancy (10).  …”

# India 

President Droupadi Murmu said on Monday that the concept of ‘one health’ is gaining importance across the world, and emphasised the use of technology to empower veterinary hospitals across the country.

Let’s not sit back and wait for the largest mass casualty event in U.S. history

World Zoonoses Day also commemorates the first rabies vaccine given on 6 July 1885. It is estimated 60 percent of infectious diseases and up to 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin.

“University of Georgia researchers have successfully created a vaccine that protects and treats vaginal yeast infections in mice

The vaccine has previously been shown to protect against the three most common fungal pathogens in four preclinical animal models, including nonhuman primates. These three fungi are responsible for more than 80% of fatal fungal infections. The vaccine has proven successful against yeast infections in mice.

The latest finding helps clear the way for the vaccine to enter clinical trials. If successful, the vaccine will be the first to prevent pathogenic fungal infections, which the World Health Organization considers one of the top threats to public health. …”

Also see: Health Initiative Targets Exotic Pet Keepers – One Health Initiative

Also see ONE HEALTH: INCLUDING ANIMAL RIGHTS, CONSERVATION, HUMAN POPULATION AND DIET – One Health Initiative