One Health Publications

Notice—November 8, 2011:   Please send any One Health News, Publications and Upcoming Events items to kkm@onehealthinitiative.com c/o Contents Manager.   We are happy to promote One Health by posting appropriate items submitted!   Thank you for your assistance...   Your One Health Initiative team

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations   FAO and Max Planck Institute take on species-swapping diseases     Focus on interactions between wild animals, livestock, and human populations to reduce risks, strengthen responses  “... FAO is moving forward with the ‘One Health approach ...” 30 May 2011, Rome - FAO and the German Max Planck Institute are joining forces to study species-swapping diseases that move back and forth between wild animals and domestic livestock and, in some cases, jump to human victims.In todays interconnected world, population growth, modern transportation and increased global trade in animals and animal products have vastly accelerated the spread of zoonoses - species jumping diseases - capable of wreaking major impacts on farmers livelihoods and human health alike. A/H1N1 swine flu and the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza are but two recent examples.  ...  “This is why FAO is moving forward with the ‘One Health approach that emphasizes a multidisciplinary collaboration in solving challenging health issues arising from the livestock-wildlife-human-ecosystem interfaces -- working closely with partners like the Max Planck Institute, ...   Read complete article at http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/79562/icode/

Second FAO-OIE-WHO Joint Scientific Consultation on Influenza and Other Emerging Zoonotic Diseases at the Human-Animal Interface   Verona, Italy, in April 2010   Additional information is available on the agency websites:   FAO: http://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/conferences/verona_2010.html     OIE: http://www.oie.int/for-the-media/onehealth/oie-involvement/verona/   WHO: http://www.who.int/influenza/human_animal_interface/en/    

Food Safety and One Health Issues Discussed   By Reporter Lynne Peeples – The Huffington Post lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com The second in a series investigating the complex linkages between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop. Please see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/produce-contamination-illness-listeria-infection-loop_n_1033152.html or click on PDF attachment.

One health national programme across species on zoonoses: a call to the developing world   Asokan G. V., Dr1*, Vanitha Asokan, Dr2 and Prathap Tharyan, Dr3   1College of Health Sciences, Kingdom of Bahrain; 2American Mission Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain; 3South Asian Cochrane Network & Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India   Citation: Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2011, 1: 8293 - DOI: 10.3402/iee.v1i0.8293 - Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2011.#2011 Asokan. G. V. et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.   Note: The One Health Initiative team considers Infection Ecology and Epidemiology to be a significant One Health oriented international journal.  In addition the journal’s responsible editor: Björn Olsen, MD, a physician, is a member of the One Health Initiative website’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

Please see Important publication with free access...of significant One Health [interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary] interest:   The Infectious Disease Committee of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV) Publishes Infectious Diseases of Concern to Captive and Free-ranging Wildlife in North America   Napier JE, Gamble KC (editors):  Infectious diseases of concern to captive and free-ranging animals in North America 1st edition. Yulee, Florida: Infectious Disease Committee, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, 2011. 374 pp.   The publication is available online (at: http://www.aazv.org/ via http://www.aazv.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=754).   Information provided October 23, 2011 by co-editor, Dr. Gamble:   Kathryn C. Gamble DVM, MS, Dipl ACZM Dr. Lester E. Fisher Director of Veterinary Medicine Chair, Infectious Disease Committee, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians Lincoln Park Zoo 2001 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60614

Using “Black Death” genetic tools for investigating cattle diseases? Geni Wren, Bovine Veterinarian Magazine (USA)  |   Updated: October 18, 2011 “An international team - led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany - has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history, according to a press release from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. (Read the full press release here. ) ...” Please read more: http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/latest/Using-Black-Death-genetic-tools-for-investigating-cattle-diseases-132014143.html or click on attachment.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration = Positive One Health impact... Strategic Plan for Regulatory Science Advancing Regulatory Science at FDA: A Strategic Plan (August 2011) The core responsibility of FDA is to protect consumers by applying the best possible science to its regulatory activities — from pre-market review of efficacy and safety to post-market product surveillance to review of product quality. FDA has developed a strategic plan for regulatory science, the science of developing new tools, standards, and approaches to assess the safety, efficacy, quality, and performance of FDA-regulated products. ...   See more:  http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/RegulatoryScience/ucm267719.htm

Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) -  http://www.ceezad.org/   Review: Essay on History of One Medicine (One Health) “Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?”  contained within “The Oxford Handbook of History of Medicine”   Please see Publications:  http://www.ceezad.org/resources/publication.html via Attachment   By Robert E. Kahn, PhD Educational Consultant Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas (USA)

GRF One Health Summit 2012 One Health - One Planet - One Future Risks and Opportunities International Conference 19-23 February 2012, Davos, Switzerland   3rd Announcement - Programme & Exhibition Please see attachment and http://www.grforum.org/pages_new.php/One-Health/1013/1/938/  

A One Health Milestone...   U. S. Veterinary Journal Establishes Visionary One Health Policy and One Health Section   The official journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), Clinician’s Brief http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal/october-2011: see View this Issue, a peer reviewed journal, has established a unique, visionary and seminal One Health policy...the journal is primarily designed to provide pertinent veterinary medical scientific articles for busy small animal medicine/surgery practitioners.  Clinician’s Brief has officially adopted support and advocacy of the One Health concept in its October 2011 issue.  In addition, a special One Health section will be published in each subsequent issue and posted on the One Health Initiative website.  The One Health section is entitled CAPSULES—Current literature in brief, featuring One Health Initiative Veterinary, Medical, Scientific [Highlights] —see page 39 in the current issue http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/54b87b67#/54b87b67/41.   The One Health Initiative team is delighted to have formed a collaborative liaison with NAVC’s Clinician’s Brief via its editor Indu Mani, DVM, DSc.  Please see attachments showing the  Front cover of the October 2011 Volume 9 Number 10 inaugural One Health issue: click on pdf view or http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/cover2.pdf; the Contents Section: click on http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/contents4.pdf; and Dr. Mani’s initial One Health Initiative Editorial commentary: click on http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/indu4.pdf.    It should be noted that Dr. Mani, a veterinarian and avid One Health advocate, practices small animal veterinary medicine as well as being the editor of Clinician’s Brief.  She is also well versed in public health issues having received her Doctor of Science degree (DSc) from Harvard University’s School of Public Health in Boston, MA (USA).   The NAVC http://www.navc.com/ conducts a prominent and outstanding yearly meeting in Orlando, Florida (USA).  It is one of the largest veterinary medical continuing education events in the world.  A focus is maintained “on a single goal—providing high quality, practical information to every member of the veterinary [medical] professional team.”  The 2012 Conference is scheduled for January 14-18, 2012.

Health Council of the Netherlands Publish Advice on Antibiotic Use in Livestock Production and the Consequences for Human Public Health   August 31, 2011: http://www.gezondheidsraad.nl/en/publications/antibiotics-food-animal-production-and-resistant-bacteria-humans   Provided to One Health Initiative website October 11, 2011 by:   Dr. M.F.M. Langelaar Scientific staff member National Health Council of the Netherlands Parnassusplein 5 Postbus 16052 2500BB Den Haag Room C06 18 T 070-3406693 E mfm.langelaar@gr.nl

World Food Prize laureate to kick off new ISU One Health lecture series – October 12, 2011  “AMES, Iowa (USA)- The Iowa State University-based international organization One Health Commission will sponsor a lecture with ISU by 2010 World Food Prize Laureate David Beckmann at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Des Moines Marriott, Salon D, at 700 Grand Ave. His presentation, One Health: World Health Through Collaboration, is scheduled in conjunction with this years World Food Prize events and is free and open to the public. ...” Please read more:  http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/sep/onehealthlecture or click on HTM View.   Contacts: Roger Mahr, One Health Commission, 515-294-0572, rkmahr@onehealthcommission.org   Tracy Raef, College of Veterinary Medicine, 515-294-4602, traef@iastate.edu   Dan Kuester, News Service, 515-294-0704, kuester@iastate.edu

See important September 30, 2011 Huffington Post column (USA) that includes One Health implications:  ‘Contagion’ Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals And The Environment May Be Spawning A New Class Of Infectious Diseases By Lynne Peeples lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com     Please SEE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/contagion-infectious-disease-animals-environment-health_n_987455.html?1317396819

Contagion Movie was One Health Deficient...making it Unrealistic!   What Contagion missed By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 29 September 2011 “Its not often that Hollywood ventures into the realm of epidemics and public health, and when it does, the outcome is usually laughably out of touch with reality -- like Outbreak, the 1995 movie about a deadly Ebola-like virus that infected a city. ...” Please read the entire review in Dr. Kahn’s Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists column:   http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/what-contagion-missed  

Outstanding One Health-One Medicine Program at University of Missouri (USA)   To learn more, visit http://www.missouri.edu/mizzou-advantage/  or contact Facilitator Carolyn J. Henry, DVM, MS at henryc@missouri.edu   Dr. Henry is a veterinarian who concomitantly serves as Professor of Oncology at MU.  She also conducts biomedical cancer research that is of significant value to humans and animals.     http://facultycouncil.missouri.edu/meetings/documents/One-Health-one-page-1B9A50.pdf

One Health Newsletter Summer Issue Published today - September 26, 2011   A product of the Florida Department of Health, Environmental Health Division (USA)   http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/SummerOHNL2011-Combined.pdf

One Health Principles Needed for Ageing Research in Humans and Animals   http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2011/47_3/47_3.htm   “In these papers, I examine controversy over the nature of ageing.  Central ideas include why post-reproductive life span is relatively common among animals, and implications for evaluating.   Contentious debate revolves around whether ageing is a combined effect of life’s events on residuals of reproductive robustness, or whether ageing could be a purposeful product of natural selection.    In my view, complexities of ageing might be understood by simultaneously considering the cell, the organism, and the population.  The idea that events of post-reproductive life represent considerable investment of precious energy challenges some accepted precepts.   I suggest that ageing and its investments may have evolved at least partly as a means of niche preservation for populations and species at multiple levels of life.    It is clear that advancing knowledge and resolving questions and problems relative to ageing requires a One Health approach for human and animal species.  The necessary knowledge evolution will occur only by greatly increasing the level of interdisciplinary research, and especially direct collaborations between research scientists and health care providers across disciplines.”   Dennis F. Lawler, DVM Note: Dr. Lawler is a retired veterinarian currently residing in OFallon, Illinois (USA). He is a consultant in anatomic and clinical pathology for broad-scope genetics studies of the mammalian body plan, using the Portuguese Water Dog canine model, Project Georgie, the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA).  Permission for the One Health Initiative website to post access to these three articles was graciously granted on September 22, 2011 by Gill Dilmitis, Associate Editor, gsdilmitis@wanadoo.fr, Veterinaria Italiana Journal.

Poster presented in the 1st International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface(ICOPHAI), September 15-17, 2011: UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.   Provided to One Health Initiative website September 23, 2011 by:   Professor Nitish C Debnath, DVM, MSc (TVM), PhDNational Consultant, Outbreak Response and Laboratory ExpertAvian Influenza Technical UnitFood and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPshusampad Bhaban, Farmgate, Dhaka Bangladesh

Global Programs and Initiatives [One Health]   U.S. Department of Health and Human Services   http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-programs-and-initiatives/one-health/