One Health Publications

Outstanding One Health Program

January 4, 2016

Outstanding One Health Program– University of Wisconsin, Madison Libraries (USA)  SEE: http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu/onehealth

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Quantitative analysis of strategies to achieve the 2020 goals for neglected tropical diseases: where are we now?

December 28, 2015

Parasites & Vectors Journal – Open Access Quantitative analysis of strategies to achieve the 2020 goals for neglected tropical diseases: where are we now? Edited by: Deirdre Hollingsworth, PhD https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/hollingsworth/; https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/people/dhollingsworth/   This thematic collection of papers aims to provide quantitative analyses to support policy development in the run up to the 2020 goals for neglected tropical diseases laid out by the World Health Organisation and supported in the London Declaration. This collection focuses on the nine diseases in the London Declaration targeted for control or elimination as a public health problem, reducing the burden of disease. The implications of these analyses are summarised in the overarching article, which serves an introduction to the collection for both non-modellers and modellers who are new to neglected tropical diseases. For the preventive chemotherapy diseases (PCT) or mass drug administration (MDA) diseases (lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminths, schistosomiasis and trachoma), the issues faced by the programmes are how frequently treatments should be given, to whom should they be given, for how many rounds, as well as methods for estimating the impact of the current programmes. In this collection there are analyses which estimate the impact of current strategies, and the feasibility of achieving the 2020 targets under current and altered strategies. For the intensified disease management diseases (leprosy, human African trypanosomiasis, visceral leishmaniasis and Chagas disease), there are more fundamental questions around the natural history of disease and the transmission dynamics to be addressed. In this collection there are papers providing new estimates for key parameters, such as incubation periods and true underlying incidence, as well as papers studying the consequences of different model structures to investigate hypotheses about the transmission dynamics. This collection is the result of a recent and growing international collaboration of researchers within the NTD Modelling Consortium. The authors and guest editor gratefully acknowledge funding of the NTD Modelling Consortium by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with the Task Force for Global Health, by Novartis Foundation and by Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (UK) (CIFF). The views, opinions, assumptions or any other information set out in this collection are solely those of the authors. Collection published: 22 October 2015 Last updated: 9 December 2015 Please see complete publication(s) http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/series/ntdmodels2015

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December 23, 2015

U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) – Morbidity and Mortality Report Notes from the Field: Increase in Human Cases of Tularemia — Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, January–September 2015 December 4, 2015 / 64(47);1317-8 Caitlin Pedati, MD1,2; Jennifer House, DVM3; Jessica Hancock-Allen, MPH1,3; Leah Colton, PhD3; Katie Bryan, MPH4; Dustin Ortbahn5; Lon Kightlinger, PhD5; Kiersten Kugeler, PhD6; Jeannine Petersen, PhD6; Paul Mead, MD6; Tom Safranek MD2; Bryan Buss DVM2,7 “Tularemia is a rare, often serious disease caused by a gram-negative coccobacillus, Francisella tularensis, which infects humans and animals in the Northern Hemisphere (1). Approximately 125 cases have been reported annually in the United States during the last two decades (2). As of September 30, a total of 100 tularemia cases were reported in 2015 among residents of Colorado (n = 43), Nebraska (n = 21), South Dakota (n = 20), and Wyoming (n = 16) (Figure). This represents a substantial increase in the annual mean number of four (975% increase), seven (200%), seven (186%) and two (70%) cases, respectively, reported in each state during 2004–2014 (2). ... See complete article: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6447a4.htm

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December 21, 2015

An Outstanding “One Health” program...                               UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine (USA) The One Health movement and excellent “One Health” activities are discussed in this comprehensive report that is created every 5-7 years. “...The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine has a One Health Institute http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ohi/ , which is active all over the world.” http://www.ucop.edu/uc-health/_files/vet-med-an-era-of-change.pdf

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December 18, 2015

Important Open-Access/Elsevier B.V. One Health Journal notice... The ‘One Health’ journal: Filling a niche The Chief Editors of ‘One Health’: Ab Osterhaus, PhD http://www.eswi.org/about-eswi/eswis-members-and-associate-members/dr-albert-osterhaus and John MacKenzie, PhD http://www.journals.elsevier.com/one-health/editorial-board/john-mackenzie/ are internationally recognized eminent virologist/microbiolgists.  Managing Editor, Leslie A. Reperant, DVM, PhD http://www.journals.elsevier.com/one-health/editorial-board/leslie-reperant/ Received 18 November 2015, Accepted 18 November 2015, Available online 24 November 2015Welcome to the first issue of ‘One Health’, the official journal of the One Health Platform, a foundation that was established at the occasion of the Third International One Health Congress, held in Amsterdam earlier this year. The journal is part of the larger, community-wide initiative which includes the One Health Platform and the One Health Congress series. ...” The One Health Platform http://onehealthplatform.com/?page_id=346 is a strategic forum of stakeholders and a One Health reference network that aims to enhance and network our understanding of, and preparedness for, current and future outbreaks of zoonoses, emerging infectious diseases in humans and animals, as well as antimicrobial resistance, including the ecological, environmental and societal drivers behind these phenomena. The One Health Congress series consists of biennial international meetings designed for members of the One Health community, with a scientific programme based on the One Health Platform research agenda and a separate Science Policy Interface track for public health officials and decision makers. ...” ...The ‘One Health’ journal aims to become a high impact journal that fills the niche of this rapidly evolving field of knowledge, based on the recognition that human, animal and ecosystem health are inextricably linked, and can have profound effects on human society. ...” Please read full description http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771415300185 “The journal accepted 14 high quality papers since its launch in May 2015 and now has its first issue published. The line-up of papers is impressive...check out ScienceDirect page at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/23527714/1” *NOTE: Drs. Osterhaus, MacKenzie and Reperant are valued One Health supporter/advocates http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

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December 16, 2015

Notice: Revised 2nd Edition book available... Animal Health Human Health One Health: The Life and Legacy of Dr. James H. Steele Paperback – December 11, 2015 by *Craig Nash Carter (Author), Cynthia Gregg Hoobler (Assistant) Be the first to review this item “To call Jim Steele “just” a veterinarian is like saying Bill Gates is “just” a software engineer. During his one hundred years of life, Steele changed the face of veterinary medicine and public health. As the first US assistant surgeon general for veterinary affairs at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, he pioneered the simple but powerful philosophy that human health is intimately connected to the health of animals and our surrounding environment. His unwavering convictions, passion for medical progress, and strong leadership have saved and enriched countless human and animal lives. Animal Health Human Health One Health recounts Jim Steele’s remarkable story, bringing to life his rough-and-tumble childhood in Chicago, his veterinary and academic career, countless battles with deadly diseases, public health adventures around the globe, creation of the first comprehensive scientific book series on zoonotic diseases, and his final years when he was still speaking, coauthoring scientific articles and books, and mentoring and advising students, colleagues and world leaders. He was the father of Veterinary Public Health and a motivator to all who met him. His life story is a great inspiration for anyone with curiosity and passion for the health, life and environmental sciences.” http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Health-Human-One-Legacy/dp/1511558016/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1450278980&sr=8-5&keywords=james+h+steele Note: *Dr. Carter is a longstanding member of the One Health Initiative Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php, as was the late James H. Steele, DVM, MPH.

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SLIDE FROM GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL – One Health graphic ONE HEALTH SWEDEN

December 16, 2015

SLIDE FROM GLOBAL HEALTH COUNCIL *BOOK* WEBINAR (Dec 16, 2015) ON GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN THE 21STCENTURY (SPRINGER, 2016)  AUTHOR: George Luededdke, PhD

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December 15, 2015

34 Prominent U.S. and international individual and organizational One Health Endorsements (multidisciplinary) – June 2011 to December 2015 Posted One Health Initiative website – NEWS page (scroll back) See Complete list:

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One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing

December 14, 2015

One Health for the Real World: zoonoses, ecosystems and wellbeing Symposium programme announced  Event: 17-18 March 2016 at the Zoological Society of London We are pleased to announce the full programme for the One Health for the Real World symposium, being held at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), 17-18 March 2016. Professor Jeremy Farrar, Director of the Wellcome Institute, will give the Opening Keynote at the start of the two days of high-level discussions which will feature the following panels: Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa - case studies, chaired by Professor Melissa Leach (Director, Institute of Development Studies). Integrating modelling for understanding zoonoses impacts, chaired by Professor James Wood (University of Cambridge). Ecosystem-poverty-health interactions, chaired by Professor Sue Welburn (University of Edinburgh). Ecosystem change and zoonoses dynamics, chaired by Professor Andrew Cunningham (ZSL). Human behaviour and social difference, chaired by Dr Linda Waldman (Institute of Development Studies). Engaging research with policy and action, chaired by Professor Ian Scoones, Director ESRC STEPS Centre. Download the full programme and find details on poster submission at: bit.ly/OneHealth2016       REGISTER NOW!   For more information http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=df0b28f6b491641b14e76c0cc&id=fcdae02798&e=32af56bcbe Also see http://steps-centre.org/project/drivers_of_disease/

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December 12, 2015

One Health Network – South Asia http://www.onehealthnetwork.asia/ http://www.onehealthnetwork.asia/links

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A One Medicine Approach to Influenza at the Human-Animal Interface

December 9, 2015

December 9-10, 2015 Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center | Durham, North Carolina Teaming Up Against the Flu: A One Medicine Approach to Influenza at the Human-Animal Interface “A conference for human and animal health professionals, public health professionals, environmental health specialists, agriculture professionals, wildlife professionals, and federal, military, state and local emergency management and disaster responders. ...”

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December 5, 2015

Important Repeat One Health Publication… Emerging Infectious Diseases Volume 21, Number 4—April 2015 Original One Health Initiative Publications page posting:   Lives of a Cell: 40 Years Later, A Third Interpretation   By Virginia M. Dato, MD, MPH [ Dr. Dato is a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php]   Dato VM. Lives of a cell: 40 years later, a third interpretation [another dimension]. Emerg Infect Dis [Internet]. 2015 Apr [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2104.110793 DOI: 10.3201/eid2104.110793 Tuesday, March 17, 2015.   http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications.php?query=Lives+of+a+Cell+40+Years+Later+A+Third+Interpretation+   “... All 3 interpretations of lives of a cell—the once independent lives of a single cell, the many lives (human, animal, bacterium, fungus, virus) of the earth, and the lives of a bacterial cell that travels throughout the earth—strongly suggest a need for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations, i.e., “One Health.” The One Health Initiative—One World, One Medicine, One Health—has as its foundation the work of Dr. Thomas and many other great scientists. The One Health vision is to improve (and help save) “the lives of all species—human and animal—through the integration of human medicine, veterinary medicine and environmental science” (http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/mission.php). Publicity about recalls may leave the perception that our food supply is riskier than before PulseNet. On the contrary, following the lives of a cell leads to a new understanding of disease mechanisms. As many diverse professionals work together and pool knowledge to develop economical solutions, our food supply becomes safer. This is the “real high technology” that Lewis Thomas described in The Technology of Medicine (7). “When it becomes available it is relatively inexpensive, simple, efficacious, expeditious and easy to deliver”—and is thus One Health in action (8). …” Update contains excellent Podcast: Please Listen to audio/Podcast http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/player.asp?f=8637494

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Prioritizing Zoonoses: A Proposed One Health Tool for Collaborative Decision-Making

December 4, 2015

Important previous One Health strategy PLOS One Journal publication: Prioritizing Zoonoses: A Proposed One Health Tool for Collaborative Decision-Making  Published: October 10, 2014 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0109986     http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0109986

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November 30, 2015

November Global Alliance for Rabies Control newsletter “RABID BYTES” SEE: https://rabiesalliance.org/uploads/newsletters/English/2015/GARCnewsletter45.pdf and https://endrabiesnow.org/uploads/resources/Rabies_Fact_Sheet.pdf Provided by: Dr. Louise Taylor PRP coordinator and newsletter editor Global Alliance for Rabies Control

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November 24, 2015

A peer-reviewed Open Access journal affiliated with the One Health Sweden. Infection Ecology & Epidemiology – the One Health Journal - publishes original and cross-disciplinary research from across medical and ecological disciplines engaged in describing the complexity of zoonotic infections and the interface between wild and domestic animals, and humans. http://www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net/index.php/iee

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November 18, 2015

Advocate One Health approach to antibiotic resistance… The Bella Moss Foundation – United Kingdom  “The Bella Moss Foundation is a charity which promotes prudent antimicrobial use and hygiene in human and veterinary medicine. ...” Please read more: http://www.thebellamossfoundation.com/

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November 14, 2015

               ELSEVIER - ONE HEALTH Journal Open Access About this Journal Absence of MERS-CoV antibodies in feral camels in Australia: implications for the pathogen’s origin and spread Gary Crameri, Peter A. Durr, Jennifer Barr, Meng Yu, Kerryne Graham, Owen J. Williams, Ghazi Kayali, David Smith, Malik Peiris, John S. Mackenzie, Lin-Fa Wang http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771415000129 Abstract - One Health doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2015.10.003 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections continue to be a serious emerging disease problem internationally with well over 1000 cases and a major outbreak outside of the Middle East region. While the hypothesis that dromedary camels are the likely major source of MERS-CoV infection in humans is gaining acceptance, conjecture continues over the original natural reservoir host(s) and specifically the role of bats in the emergence of the virus. Dromedary camels were imported to Australia, principally between 1880 and 1907 and have since become a large feral population inhabiting extensive parts of the continent. Here we report that during a focussed surveillance study, no serological evidence was found for the presence of MERS-CoV in the camels in the Australian population. This finding presents various hypotheses about the timing of the emergence and spread of MERS-CoV throughout populations of camels in Africa and Asia, which can be partially resolved by testing sera from camels from the original source region, which we have inferred was mainly northwestern Pakistan. In addition, we identify bat species which overlap (or neighbour) the range of the Australian camel population with a higher likelihood of carrying CoVs of the same lineage as MERS-CoV. Both of these proposed follow-on studies are examples of “proactive surveillance”, a concept that has particular relevance to a One Health approach to emerging zoonotic diseases with a complex epidemiology and aetiology.

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How Vietnam Mastered Infectious Disease Control

November 9, 2015

An outstanding One Health item...published on NOVA Next – PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/  How Vietnam Mastered Infectious Disease Control    By Joanne Silberner on Thu, 05 Nov 2015  “It’s the winter of 2003, and Long Thanh Ngo, head of a government biological testing lab in Dong Nai province, watches helplessly as a highly infectious avian influenza virus begins ripping through Vietnam. In a nation   heavily dependent on poultry for protein, tens of millions of chickens and ducks are either killed by the disease or culled to prevent it from spreading. The virus even makes the jump to humans. Ninety-three people in Vietnam who plucked or cleaned infected birds or somehow came in contact with their droppings get sick. Mostly, the illnesses begin as normal flu—fevers, aches, pains. Forty-two people develop severe respiratory symptoms and die. Other Asian countries have cases as well, but Vietnam is the hardest hit. ...” SEE complete article:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/one-health-vietnam/ or click on attachment. Permission to post on One Health Initiative website granted Nov 9, 2015 granted by: Tim De Chant, Editor, Nova Next

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Public Health Research Tools and Learning Resources GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Toward New Paradigms, Policy, and Practice

November 4, 2015

  November 4, 2015 Public Health Research Tools and Learning Resources GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Toward New Paradigms, Policy, and Practice   George Lueddeke, PhD, and Global Colleagues SPRINGER PUBLISHING COMPANY ISBN: 978-0-8261-3202-4   http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Lueddeke_32024_PublicHealthResearchTools.pdf   Aims and Educational Objectives GLOBAL POPULATION HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN THE 21ST CENTURY Toward New Paradigms, Policy, and Practice George Lueddeke, PhD http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Lueddeke_32031_EducationalObjectives.pdf     Pre-publication announcement for Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century – November 2015   Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century: Toward New Paradigms, Policy and Practice    (Springer Publications, New York, c. 480 pages)   http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/231015Lueddeke_Flyer_Updated_(1).pdf   George R. Lueddeke, PhD   ...”With special attention given to major initiatives of the United Nations, especially its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2016–2030, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank priorities, the text articulates an imperative to adopt a “One World, One Health” view that recognizes the interdependence of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. ...”   For more information please see: Attachment or http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/231015Lueddeke_Flyer_Updated_(1).pdf and http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/231015_MS_TOC.pdf   Provided by: George Lueddeke, PhD  Consultant Education Advisor  Southampton, Hampshire  United Kingdom SO40 4XG Tel: (+44) 023 8042 8966  Mob.: 07 990 752 355 Contact/Queries E-mail: glueddeke@aol.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/changingmed  Linked-In connection: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-george-lueddeke/42/4b0/401        

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