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Season 2 Episode 1 | 25m 56s |Video has closed captioning.

One Health is a concept that connects the health of animals, people, and the environment. Each aspect is equal, important, and delicately intertwined. In this episode, Wildlife Center veterinary and rehabilitation staff, along with public health officials, explain One Health concepts and challenges, and highlight how we can work together for the optimal health of all.

14 May 2021

“A University of Queensland researcher is helping train ‘animal-disease detectives’ to protect animals and humans from the threat of future pandemics. …

… The APCOVE project is built upon the One Health approach, a collaborative effort to work across different sectors, such as public health, animal health, plant health and the environment, and on a local, national, and global level, to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment.”

SEE: https://onehealthinitiative.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/WVA-Position-on-Emerging-Zoonoses-3.pdf 

” … Members are encouraged to engage in multisectoral-multidisciplinary, One Health networks and support the global initiative on Preventing the Next Pandemic. …”

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OPINION

“ … Why study One Health?

One Health is a transdisciplinary approach to health issues affecting humans, animals and the rapidly changing environments we share. One Health specialists look at a range of issues—from emerging zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance to climate change and food production—through the lens of creating a healthy coexistence between humans and animals in sustainable ecosystems.

Our UW Center for One Health Research, part of DEOHS, offers traineeships for the Occupational Health at the Human-Animal Interface training program, funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. …”

Our faculty and research

Our study looking into whether pets can get COVID-19 aims to help people with good preventive practices to avoid transmission between people and animals.

*Dr. Peter Rabinowitz,
DEOHS Professor and Director, UW Center for One Health Research
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*Member One Health Initiative Advisory Board

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

*Member One Health Initiative Advisory Board

… the authors emphasized “the wisdom of adopting a One Health approach,” … (Lancet 2021 Mar 9. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00503-1).

“ … Because many pandemics are zoonotic, the authors emphasized “the wisdom of adopting a One Health approach,” which recognizes that the health of people is closely linked to the health of animals and their shared environment. …”

About this Research Topic

Filed Under: Antimicrobial Stewardship 

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

Apr 29, 2021

“… “It will happen again…so we need to dramatically strengthen pandemic preparedness, and we need to do so together, across sectors, and as a global community,” said Henrietta Fore, executive director of UNICEF. “This means building political will towards a One Health approach, underpinned by policies and budgets that put preparedness first.”

The One Health concept views the health of humans, animals, and the environment as intrinsically linked. Speakers throughout the day made it clear that any national strategies to combat AMR must address how antibiotics are used in human and veterinary medicine and in agriculture.  …”

A panel of experts recently discussed COVID-19, vaccines, and predictions for future variants during a virtual event.

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Though the ‘One Health’ approach is considered crucial to address governance challenges of zoonotic diseases, its implementation in practice remains quite limited. It is time for international law to catch up with global reality. But global health scholars can neither simply focus on the health sector nor limit their work to scientific and technological improvement. All will have to realize that food, trade, human rights, humanitarian relief, and the environment are critically important in improving health and reducing health inequalities.”

The writer is a former Senior Scientist, Central Pollution Control Board. Views expressed are personal

Abstract  Background

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a recently emerged coronavirus that is the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. COVID-19 in humans is characterized by a wide range of symptoms that range from asymptomatic to mild or severe illness including death. SARS-CoV-2 is highly contagious and is transmitted via the oral–nasal route through droplets and aerosols, or through contact with contaminated fomites. House flies are known to transmit bacterial, parasitic and viral diseases to humans and animals as mechanical vectors. Previous studies have shown that house flies can mechanically transmit coronaviruses, such as turkey coronavirus; however, the house fly’s role in SARS-CoV-2 transmission has not yet been explored. The goal of this work was to investigate the potential of house flies to mechanically transmit SARS-CoV-2. For this purpose, it was determined whether house flies can acquire SARS-CoV-2, harbor live virus and mechanically transmit the virus to naive substrates and surfaces.

Discussion

Overall, these studies demonstrated that house flies are indeed capable of acquiring, harboring and transmitting SARS-CoV-2. However, the low level of infectious virus carried by flies limits their capability for SARS-CoV-2 transmission. …

Conclusions

In the present study, we determined that house flies could readily acquire and harbor SARS-CoV-2 from virus-spiked medium or virus-spiked milk. However, only viral RNA but no infectious virus was recovered from any environmental samples. These data suggest that flies most likely do not play a significant role in transmitting SARS-CoV-2 to humans and susceptible animals. However, the house fly’s ability to harbor SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA for extended periods might offer a potential for its use as a xenosurveillance vector for monitoring SARS-CoV-2 in communities, a technique which more traditionally has been used to survey blood-borne human pathogens by using hematophagous vectors [31, 32].

“…Preventing the next zoonotic pandemic: Around 60% of human infectious diseases have an animal origin, including the COVID-19 virus. The FAO’s plan to prevent the next zoonotic pandemic, therefore, entailed applying a One Health approach. This outlook recognizes the interconnectedness between animals, plants, humans and their environment to avoid future animal-origin pandemics. …”

Pork tapeworm: a parasite that afflicts poor, marginalised farming and rural communities within 56 countries across the globe. Matt Dixon looks at how a One Health strategy could drive down infections and prevent a major cause of epilepsy in low and middle income countries, neurocysticercosis.

Matthew A. Dixon 23 Apr 2021

 “… T. solium is a complex One Health problem that thrives on the close interaction between pigs, people, and places.

One Health has been defined as:

“The recognition that the health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected”. …”

“… Similarly, the idea of global health recognizes that the obstacles to health differ among populations, that socioeconomic factors are central determinants of health outcomes, and that wealth and health are connected. Finally, one health observes that the health of people, wild and domesticated animals, and natural living systems are also connected. …”

“ … On Wednesday, April 28, AUC and the Caribbean Center for Disaster Medicine will host a 2021 International Conference featuring global disaster medicine thought leaders from across disciplines including medicine, nursing, public health, veterinary medicine, government and more. The focus of the day will be prevention, preparedness, response, mitigation and recovery from all-hazards events.

According to a 2020 report published by the US Agency for International Development and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, disasters claimed approximately 1.23 million lives and affected a total of over 4 billion people between 2000 – 2019. Natural disasters affect everyone, from the elderly, families and children to pets and livestock. This year’s conference will highlight this concept of One Health, the idea that Zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19 are more likely to emerge as the link between humans and animals strengthens. …”