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11.11.2021 07:00 AM

People and canines suffer horribly from the disease, caused by a fungus spreading through the increasingly dry US Southwest.

Promising language in “The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022” approved in the U.S. House of Representatives and now at Senate

by *Richard Seifman – Board Member, United Nations Association-National Capital Area

November 11, 2021 in Health, Politics & Foreign Affairs

*Member One Health Initiative team Advisory Board

A visionary unanimous worldwide institutionalization of One Health is the goal.  This would significantly and exponentially “help protect and/or save untold millions of lives in our generation and for those to come.”

PEAH is honored to post here a PP presentation, Tackling the Root Causes of Climate Change. If Not Now, WHEN?,  given on 7 November 2021 at a COP26 fringe event in Glasgow by our acknowledged partner *Dr. George Lueddeke, Global Lead International One Health for One Planet Education & Trandisciplinarity Initiative (1 HOPE-TDI)

SEE: LUEDDEKE 07.11.2021 FINAL COP26 Glasgow Presentation Slides

“PEAH definitely aligns with the contents of Lueddeke’s presentation and cannot think of a more crucial theme at this time of continuing global upheaval and uncertainty (confusion?). …”

 *Dr. Lueddeke is a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board.

November 6, 2021

“… We need to find these novel viruses well before they fully adapt to humans and become a pandemic problem,” writes *epidemiologist Gregory Gray, from the University of Texas Medical Branch, in an email to NPR. “Fortunately, today we have the tools to both detect and evaluate the risk of such novel viruses. We just need the political will and financial support to do so.”

*Dr. Gray is a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board.

PROGRAM AREA HEALTH & AIR QUALITY

Letters to the Editor – The Washington Post

Opinion: Progress toward One Health – November 4, 2021

SEE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/letters-to-the-editor/progress-toward-one-health/2021/11/03/c87ac7dc-3b4e-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html

“The Group of 20 health and finance ministers expressed their determination to advance pandemic prevention in line with the comprehensive One Health approach, which is the interaction of humans, animals and ecosystems. We will have to see if this is just the end of the beginning of a global effort.

This has not been given the media attention it deserves and may be among the very few full consensus subjects that will emerge from COP26. Let’s hope not.”

*Richard Seifman, Rockville

 *Richard Seifman, JD, MBA is a member, One Health Initiative Advisory Board and former U.S. Executive Director to the International Fund for Agricultural development.

November 3, 2021 8.29am EDT

Sharing News gathered in October 2021 and Celebrating One Health Day 2021

 The next generation of health professionals demand immediate change to prevent future pandemics!

[One Health approach needed!!]

G20 Health and Finance Ministers announced the establishment of a Joint Finance-Health Task Force in line with One Health principles 

by *Richard Seifman – Board Member, United Nations Association-National Capital Area

October 31, 2021

in  Health, Politics & Foreign Affairs

*Member One Health Initiative team Advisory Board

“The goal of the One Health Day is to build the cultural will necessary for a change in how planetary health challenges are assessed and addressed and how professionals exchange information across disciplines.

Initiated in 2016 by the One Health Commission, the One Health Platform, and the One Health Initiative Team, the International One Health Day is officially celebrated around the world every year on November 3.

Since 2017 the International One Health Day celebration has been used to increase awareness among policymakers and strongly advocate for the adoption of the One Health approach. …”

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See One Health Day Press Release: https://conta.cc/3ohAuZO

Abstract

Background: Nipah virus (NiV) first emerged in 1998 in Malaysia, causing an outbreak of respiratory illness and encephalitis in pigs. Pig-to-human transmission of NiV associated with severe febrile encephalitis was described, and it was thought to occur through close contact with infected animals. The first outbreak was reported in India in Siliguri, West Bengal in 2001 followed by Nadia, West Bengal and adjoining areas of Bangladesh in 2007, where an intermediate animal host was not identified, suggesting bat-to-human and human-to-human transmissions. Although it is extremely difficult to document the spillover event and ascertain crossing of trans-natural boundaries by bats and bringing new viruses in an unexposed population, efforts for source identification are important to understand the epidemiology of disease. As the disease transcends beyond one species and has shown to infect humans, it therefore requires the ‘One Health approach’ in which multiple sectors coordinate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes.  …  Findings & Conclusion: The evidence of NiV in humans and bats, with samples collected from the outbreak sites, was laboratory confirmed. The multidisciplinary response mechanisms during the 2018 outbreak helped in further understanding the importance of the One Health approach for systemic and streamlined response utilizing existing surveillance systems. This was of utmost help in the subsequent outbreak of the disease that occurred during 2019, wherein there was no documented spread of disease from the index case and no mortality was observed. This success reiterates the need for institutionalizing the involvement and cooperation of various departments and organizations during public health emergencies, especially of Zoonotic diseases, using the One Health approach.