One Health Publications

Vetsweb.com - July 2, 2010 Bird flu: New mechanism of circulation and transmission found An international team of Italy-US scientists reports discovery of a new mechanism of avian influenza virus circulation and transmission in nature. …read more:   http://www.vetsweb.com/news/bird-flu-new-mechanism-of-circulation-and-transmission-found-1244.html   Reported in ProMED:  http://promedmail.oracle.com/pls/otn/pm?an=20100702.2208   Scientific article Published Plos ONE www.plosone.org June 2010, Volume 5 Issue 6 e11315 by Delogu et. al.   http://www.plosone.org/article/infodoi10.1371journal.pone.0011315

Urinary schistosomiasis among preschool children in a rural community near Abeokuta, Nigeria Uwem F Ekpo, Akintunde Laja-Deile, Akinola S Oluwole, Sammy O Sam-Wobo and Chiedu F Mafiana Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:58doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-58 Published: July 5, 2010     Parasites and Vectors Online Journal – Open Access   http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/3/1/58

Commentary Altered metabolism in cancer Jason W Locasale1,2 and Lewis C Cantley1,2 1  Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA 2  Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Signal Transduction, Boston, MA 02215, USA author email corresponding author email BMC Biology 2010, 8:88 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-8-88 Published: 25 June 2010 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/8/88   © 2010 Locasale and Cantley; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Wellcome Trust & Wolfson Foundation Funds Establishment of ‘Laboratory of Comparative & Veterinary Virology’ at new Centre for Virus Research at University of Glasgow, Scotland (UK)     Prof. Massimo Palmarini, DVM, PhD, Director of the Medical Research Centre, University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research notified the One Health Initiative website team today (July 5, 2010)—please see letter posted on Publications page—that Wellcome Trust & Wolfson Foundation has provided funds, £4.8 million, for the establishment of a ‘Laboratory of Comparative & Veterinary Virology’ within the new Centre for Virus Research at University of Glasgow, Scotland (UK).    Dr. Palmarini is a longtime One Health supporter and has collaborated with members of the One Health Initiative website for nearly four years.  The One Health Initiative team was honored to provide a letter of support that was included in the application for this grant.  Dr. Palmarini will assume directorship of the Centre on August 1, 2010.    The One Health Initiative team congratulates Dr. Palmarini and his associates and extends our best wishes for success!      

U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -  Morbidity and Mortality Report West Nile Virus Activity --- United States, 2009 July 2, 2010 / 59(25);769-772   http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5925a1.htm?s_cid=mm5925a1_w

Focusing on neglected zoonoses   Doble L, Fèvre EM   Vet Rec. 2010 May 1;166(18):546-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20435977 Abstract Two tenets at the core of the One Health concept are the belief that human and animal health are irrevocably entwined and that the improvement of both requires close collaboration between the medical and veterinary professions with support from allied disciplines. An ongoing Wellcome Trust-supported project in Western Kenya - the People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project - holds the One Health theme at its centre as it endeavours to study neglected zoonoses and provide policy-relevant information about their epidemiology. Veterinarian Lian Doble and the projects leader Eric Fèvre explain why this study is so important   Provided by One Health advocate:   Diane A. Fagen, Librarian American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) 1931 N Meacham Rd Schaumburg IL 60173 P: 1-800-248-2862 ext 6770 F: 1-847-925-9329 e-mail: dfagen@avma.org

Legislation envisions a Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) at Department of Homeland Security (USA)   GSN Magazine – Government Security News   Mon, 2010-04-26 03:30 PM By: Jacob Goodwin   http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/20591/legislation_envisions_chief_veterinary_officer_dhs  

Sri Lanka – Veterinary Epidemiological Bulletin   Volume 3. No. 1.  July-December 2009   Provided by June 26, 2010:   EDITOR, Ravi Bandara Dissanayake, BVSc, MVSc, Attorney-at-Law Commissioner for OathsNational Veterinary Specialist/Sri Lanka UN-FAO  

Lack of association between the occurrence of Crohn’s disease and occupational exposure to dairy and beef cattle herds infected with Micobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis   Journal of Dairy Science – Vol. 93 No. 6:2371-2376 American Dairy Science Association, 2010   Provided by:   Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD Department of Veterinary Micobiology and Preventive Medicine College of Veterinary Medicine Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 50014

Emerging Infectious Diseases – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Volume 16, Number 6–June 2010 - http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/6/986.htm Dispatch Novel Betaherpesvirus in Bats Shumpei Watanabe,1 Ken Maeda,1 Kazuo Suzuki, Naoya Ueda, Koichiro Iha, Satoshi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Shimoda, Kentaro Kato, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Shigeru Morikawa, Ichiro Kurane, Hiroomi Akashi, and Tetsuya Mizutani Author affiliations: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (S. Watanabe, N. Ueda, K. Iha, S. Taniguchi, K. Kato, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Akashi); Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan (K. Maeda, H. Shimoda); Hikiiwa Park Center, Wakayama, Japan (K. Suzuki); and National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo (S. Morikawa, I. Kurane, T. Mizutani) AbstractBecause bats are associated with emerging zoonoses, identification and characterization of novel viruses from bats is needed. Using a modified rapid determination system for viral RNA/DNA sequences, we identified a novel bat betaherpesvirus 2 not detected by herpesvirus consensus PCR. This modified system is useful for detecting unknown viruses.

Emerging Infectious Diseases – U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vol. 15, No. 12, December 2009   “I think I could turn and live with animals” –Walt Whitman   Polyxeni Potter

gizmag   Cure for all types of flu could be on the way By Ben Coxworth 16:53 June 10, 2010 http://www.gizmag.com/cure-for-all-types-of-flu-on-the-way/15380/

·                                 The Sydney Morning Herald Pet cancer drug goes to human trials June 13, 2010     http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/pet-cancer-drug-goes-to-human-trials-20100613-y5ny.html

 Human and Animal Health (USA) – From American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Podcast: Veterinarians play a prominent role in making sure our food supply is healthy and safe to eat by preventing the spread of foodborne illness among our livestock. Doing so not only keeps the animals healthy, but it also reduces the risk of human exposure to foodborne illnesses.  In this podcast, W. Ron DeHaven, DVM, MBA, chief executive officer of the AVMA discusses the link between human and animal health and expresses the AVMA’s carefully considered perspectives about the use of antibiotics in food producing animals (i.e. livestock) relative to this practice’s “resistance development” concerns.  Please listen to Dr. DeHaven by clicking the “MP3” in the following link.  http://www.avmamedia.org/detail.asp?sid=256&NAME=Human_and_Animal_Health

Factors associated with compliance with community directed treatment with ivermectin for onchocerciasis control in Southwestern Ethiopia   http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/3/1/48 Yirga D, Deribe K, Woldemichael K, Wendafrash M, Kassahun W Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:48 (2 June 2010)[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]  

Monday, June 7, 2010 The California Aggie The California Aggie > Campus News > UC Davis observes National Public Health Week University of California, Davis, CA (USA)  observes National Public Health Week Professionals discuss topics in societal health Written by Kyle Sporleder Aggie Staff Writer Published on Apr 8, 2010 … [Dr.] Cheryl Scott, program director for the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicines Calvin Schwabe One Health Project, suggested collaboration is needed in all fields of health in order to address the concerns of the nation as a whole. According to Scott, One Health is the idea that one must consider factors that affect the health of all organisms. One Health is the intersection of human, animal and ecosystem health, Scott said. It makes sense that since we all live in the same environment, then that environment must be healthy in order for us to be. Scott wants attention drawn to crises that affect everyone, not just one life or entity, such as infectious diseases, food contamination, drug-resistant bacteria, habitat destruction and air/water quality. One way to do that, she argues, is to engage students today who will be the workforce we depend on tomorrow. We need more smart and passionate people engaged in health issues, Scott said. They need to be aware that none of us are isolated anymore. What affects one of us will eventually affect all of us. And students entering the health field need to realize that. … Read the entire article at http://theaggie.org/article/uc-davis-observes-national-public-health-week

A “One Health” Approach to Address Emerging Zoonoses: The HALI Project in Tanzania   Jonna A. K. Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PHD and colleagues describe their work [Plos Medicine] in the Tanzania-based HALI Project, which adopts the “One Health” approach to address emerging zoonoses and that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. Jonna A. K. Mazet1*, Deana L. Clifford1, Peter B. Coppolillo2, Anil B. Deolalikar, Jon D. Erickson4, Rudovick R. Kazwala53 1 Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America, 2 Wildlife Conservation Society, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, 3 Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, 4 Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, 5 Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania   http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/infodoi10.1371journal.pmed.1000190

Structural Basis for Senior Immunity to the Current H1N1 Flu summary written by Raven Hanna http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/h1n1_summary.html    Stanford [University] (USA) Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource Date Published: May 28, 2010 The above was a lay summary for: Primary Citation Xu, R., Ekiert, D.C., Krause, J.C., Hai, R., Crowe, J.E. Jr, Wilson, I.A. Structural Basis of Preexisting Immunity to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus. Science 328, 357-360 (2010). Structural Basis of Pre-existing Immunity to thé 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, also known as the swine flu, marks the first human flu pandemic in 40 years and has caused significant human infection and mortality globally (1). The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 flu marks the first time that an influenza pandemic was triggered by a virus carrying the same hemagglutinin (HA) subtype as circulating seasonal strains. In contrast, all prior pandemics were caused by the rise of a novel influenza strain with a different hemagglutinin subtype. And unlike seasonal flu that usually affects the elderly most severely, swine flu has been primarily targeting people under the age of 65, implying some age-related pre-existing immunity (2, 3) … … READ MORE at http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/highlights_archive/h1n1.html.

Parasites & Vectors 5th Symposium on Canine Vector-Borne Diseases Edited by Chris Arme This thematic series groups papers presented at the 5th Symposium on Canine Vector-Borne Diseases New York City 12th-15th April 2010 http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/series/CVBD5

  Case Study: Veterinarians without Borders-Canada One health for one world: a compendium of case studies   http://aitoolkit.org/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/OHOW_Compendium_Case_Studies.pdf   This compendium of case studies, prepared by Veterinarians without Borders with support from the Canadian Public Health Agency, promotes that the health of people, animals, and the ecosystem are inextricably woven together. The compendium includes a broad range of disease outbreaks across the globe including avian influenza H5N1 and pandemic influenza H1N1. Each study includes basic information about the clinical disease and the infectious agent associated with it, a description of why the disease is appropriate for one-health approaches, responses and conclusions, and implications for government, business and research policies.