One Health Publications

“Two University of Guelph researchers have been recognized for their expertise by the Canadian health sciences community.

Dr. Dorothee Bienzle and Dr. Shayan Sharif, both professors in the Ontario Veterinary College’s Department of Pathobiology, have been elected Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS).

CAHS brings together Canada’s top health and biomedical scientists and scholars to address the country’s major health issues. Fellows volunteer their time and expertise, evaluating these challenges and providing practicable, evidence-based advice to improve the health of Canadians.

“It is tremendous that Dr. Bienzle and Dr. Sharif have been recognized for their outstanding contributions with this richly-deserved honour from the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences,” said Dr. Malcolm Campbell, vice-president (research).

“These fellowships acknowledge the impact that their research has made to the understanding of health across species, as well as their commitment to leadership, collegial problem-solving, and attentive mentorship to students and emerging scholars.”  …”

This journal, Science in One Health, provides a platform that disseminates knowledge, real-world research findings and lessons learnt from programmes on health for the human-animal-environmental interface at the local, regional and global levels, in order to reduce the inequity of health issues in the world and promote more advanced researches on One Health. Such a mission is supported by sharing of consistent ideas on emerging topics of interactions between human health, animal health and environmental health, based on the principle of “One World, One Health”.

This journal focuses on the One Health issues, including governance capacity, zoonotic diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety and food security, vector-borne diseases, environmental contamination, global climate changes, and other health threats shared by people, animals, plants, and the environment. In addition, this journal discusses global health issues, especially, worldwide health improvement including mental health, reduction of disparities, technical assistance & development, global health security & policy, and protection against global threats that disregard national borders.

Express Healthcare

It is estimated that 60 per cent of human pathogens originate in animals – about three quarters of which are of wildlife origin. One Health Initiative …

Science|Business

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the loss of millions of lives and hit global economies hard, underlining the need to strengthen the “One Health” …

One Health Happenings: Sharing news from August/Early September, 2022

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Zoonotic diseases such as leptospi­rosis, COVID-19 and other commu­nicable diseases have only recently made governments across the world acknowledge the importance of the One Health concept.

New pandemic financing with over $1.4 billion in commitments and a United Nations high-level meeting planned for 2023: both acknowledge the One Health concept

By *Richard Seifman, JD, MBA

September 10, 2022  in Health, Politics & Foreign Affairs

*Member One Health Initiative team

“… The CLEAR research team is led by Melissa Runge-Morris, M.D., professor of Oncology and of Pharmacy, and Carol Miller, Ph.D., who also co-lead the One Health Initiative at Wayne State University. Dr. Runge-Morris is the director of the Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/Center for Urban Responses to Environmental Stressors at Wayne State University. Miller is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Wayne State University and director of Healthy Urban Waters, funded by the Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation. The innovative CLEAR program integrates engineering and biomedical approaches to detect, quantify and eradicate the health risks that stem from environmental exposure to VOCs and their mixtures. The research team is made up of 31 faculty in six colleges and schools at Wayne State, along with researchers from Henry Ford Health, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor Technical Services Inc., North Carolina State University and the University of Florida.  …”

A new historical overview of how the One Health concept developed over 150 years brings home the fact that the time has come to adopt it worldwide  

Abstract

Background

Pigs are unique reservoirs for virus ecology. Despite the increased use of improved biosecurity measures, pig viruses readily circulate in Chinese swine farms.

Objectives

The main objective of this study was to examine archived swine oral secretion samples with a panel of pan-species viral assays such that we might better describe the viral ecology of swine endemic viruses in Chinese farms.

Methodology

Two hundred (n = 200) swine oral secretion samples, collected during 2015 and 2016 from healthy pigs on six swine farms in two provinces in China, were screened with molecular pan-species assays for coronaviruses (CoVs), adenoviruses (AdVs), enteroviruses (EVs), and paramyxoviruses (PMV). Samples were also screened for porcine circovirus (PCV) 3, porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) and influenza A virus (IAV).

Results

Among 200 swine oral secretion samples, 152 (76.0%) were found to have at least one viral detection. Thirty-four samples (17%) were positive for more than one virus, including 24 (70.5%) with dual detection and 10 (29.5%) with triple detection. Seventy-eight (39.0%) samples were positive for porcine AdVs, 22 (11.0%) were positive for porcine CoVs, 21 (10.5%) were positive for IAVs, 13 (6.5%) were positive for PCV, 7 (3.5%) were positive for PMV, six (3.0%) were positive for PRRSV and five (2.5%) were positive for porcine EV.

Conclusion

Our findings underscore the high prevalence of numerous viruses among production pigs in China and highlight the need for routine, periodic surveillance for novel virus emergence with the goal of protecting pigs.

Introduction

Texas, the second-largest U.S. state in both population and geography, leads the nation in number of farms (>248,000 in 2021) and in multiple agriculture and natural resource commodities. A catastrophic event in Texas has potential to affect the entire nation’s supply chains. When a catastrophic event disrupts infrastructure or damages environmental ecology, it may be associated with infectious disease threats to human or livestock health. [1] This report examines how academic professionals in Texas are working together to mitigate naturally occurring and manmade catastrophic events in Texas through a One Health (OH) approach via research, training, policy, and practice. The lessons demonstrated by these collaborative initiatives have applicability beyond Texas, to the rest of the United States and our interconnected world.

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EDITORIAL by *Helena Chapman, MD, MPH, PhD, Editor in Chief of the World Medical Journal E-mail: editor-in-chief@wma.net

“ … Close attention to the impacts of natural and anthropogenic activity on our planet will require the One Health concept (human-animal[1]environment nexus) to be a central element of local and national initiatives that aim to strengthen health system preparedness and resilience. … “

*Member One Health Initiative team