Princeton University (USA) – Program of Science and Global Security

The Biosecurity Seminar Series – Spring 2009

All seminars were held at the Carl Icahn building in Princeton, New Jersey (USA)

Any questions, please contact Laura Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP at lkahn@princeton.edu or 609-258-6763.

http://www.princeton.edu/sgs/seminars/biosecurity/

Notable Example:

March 27, 2009�-�Smallpox Eradication:� What it Taught Us or Did It?"

Speaker:� D.A. Henderson, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine; Resident Scholar at the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; former Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health from 1977 to 1990; Directed WHO global smallpox eradication program 1966-1977

link to view videotape of 3/27/09 seminar

FDA mulling restrictions on livestock antibiotics

DesMoinesRegister.com  -  March 10, 2010

http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/03/10/fda-mulling-restrictions-on-livestock-antibiotics/

FoodSafety.gov - SALMONELLA

http://www.foodsafety.gov/poisoning/causes/bacteriaviruses/salmonella.html

Science News

Novel Way to Study Human Inflammatory Disease

ScienceDaily (Feb. 28, 2010) — A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows mice infected with the bacteria salmonella develop clinical signs consistent with a deadly and poorly understood human inflammatory disease, a finding that may lead to new therapies…

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100225214812.htm

Dry weather induces outbreaks of human West Nile virus infections

Guiming Wang , Richard B Minnis , Jerrold L Belant and Charles L Wax

BMC Infectious Diseases 2010, 10:38doi:10.1186/1471-2334-10-38 -

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/10/38

Chemical causes high contamination levels in Atlantic dolphins

          It brings back old questions about food safety for humans

NEWS Jacksonville.com – March 1, 2010

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-03-01/story/chemical_causes_high_contamination_levels_in_atlantic_dolphins?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JacksonvillecomNews+(Jacksonville+Local+News+%E2%80%93+Jacksonville.com+and+The+Florida+Times-Union)

Vol. 7 (2010) / Issue 1 / Book Reviews

Review of Who's In Charge?: Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises by Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP

Robert Lloyd Ditch, Synaptic LLC

Recommended Citation

Ditch, Robert Lloyd (2010) "Review of Who's In Charge?: Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management: Vol. 7 : Iss. 1, Article 8.

See http://www.bepress.com/jhsem/vol7/iss1/8/

Vector-borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Editor: Stephen Higgs, PhD

Volume 10; Number 1, 2010

Copyright: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

Special Issue: Symposium on Ecology of Plague and Its Effects on Wildlife

http://www.liebertonline.com/toc/vbz/10/1

Provided to CDC (USA) ListServe by:

Mira J. Leslie, DVM, MPH

Ministry of Agriculture and Lands

1767 Angus Campbell Road

Abbotsford, BC. V3G 2M3

Ph: (604) 556-3013

Fax: (604) 556-3015

Mira.leslie@gov.bc.ca

One World – One Medicine – One Health

Rev. sci. tech. Off. Int. Epiz, 2009, 28 (2), 481-486

http://www.oie.int/boutique/extrait/04osburn481486.pdf?PHPSESSID=b935473736dc9d8775fe68cb010089e7

Chickens May Provide Clues to Color Vision
Studies of retinal differences in birds could lead to treatments for blindness, researchers say

FRIDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News)

http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=636123

The Alliance for Rabies Control's February 2010 newsletter is now available at:
www.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter16.pdf

SALK INSTITUTE For Biological Studies

The mouse with a human liver: a new model for the treatment of liver disease

February 22, 2010

http://www.salk.edu/news/pressrelease_details.php?press_id=408

Current One Health Supporters with addresses

BIOGRAPHY:

Jack Woodall, PhD

Veterinaria Italiana Journal

2009 - Volume 45 (4), October-December

A quarterly journal devoted to veterinary public health, veterinary science and medicine published by the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Abruzzo e del Molise ‘G. Caporale’ in Teramo, Italy

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_4/45_4.htm

Humanitarian Resource Institute

HRI:UNArts: Student Loan Debt - Veterinarian shortage plagues rural areas

Provided by Stephen Michael Apatow: Founder, Humanitarian Resource Institute, United Nations Arts Initiative, Pathobiologics International.

http://www.unarts.org/news/asld_2212010.html

VETERINARY Cancer Society NEWS Volume 34, No. 1, Spring 2010

“The Inclusion of Companion Species in Advancing Cancer Therapeutics Through the Concept of One Medicine”

http://www.vetcancersociety.org/Spring_10_VCSN.pdf

Provided February 20, 2010 by:

Ralph C. Richardson, DVM, Dipl ACVIM (Oncology, Internal Med)
Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine
Kansas State University
101 Trotter Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-5601

CONFERENCE INVITATION

8^th Annual Scientific Conference 

Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU)

April 7-9, 2010

Hotel Agrabad, Chittagong, Bangladesh

 One World-One Health

Wildlife Disease News Digest

http://wdin.blogspot.com/

Wildlife Disease News and Information at your Fingertips.  Brought to you by the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) http://wildlifedisease.nbii.gov/  Wildlife Disease Information Node (WDIN) http://wildlifedisease.nbii.gov/aboutwdin.jsp

“This news service focuses on wildlife diseases, and wildlife morbidity/mortality, especially as they relate to human and ecosystem health.  We work for cover emerging infectious diseases, zoonoses, environmental toxins, population threats, unexplained incidents, die-offs and more.”

Global Zoonoses

http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/servlet/CVMHighLight?file=htm/bc/tzns01.htm&word=zoonoses,table

NOTICE (February 11, 2010):

 The One Health Initiative Website Welcomes …

 Worldwide One Health Submissions for Posting on:

·                         One Health News page

·                         Publications page

·                         Upcoming Events page

Comments and suggestions also appreciated...

 Please send to kkm@onehealthinitiative.com

:: PLEASE TAKE OUR [Short] ONLINE SURVEY ::  SEE OPENING PAGE OF One Health Initiative website.

Thank you!

The autonomous pro bono One Health Initiative website was notified today (February 8, 2010) that the Participatory Epidemiology Network for Animal and Public Health (PENAPH) website www.penaph.net has been launched.   We offer our Congratulations and best wishes!

Provided by:

Saskia Hendrickx, DVM, MSc

International Livestock Research Institute

P.O. Box 30709

Nairobi, 00100 Kenya

Veterinary Practice News

New Cancer Research May Also Benefit Animals

Posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 6:47 p.m., EST

http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/vet-breaking-news/2010/02/02/new-cancer-research-may-also-benefit-animals.aspx

New literature review REQUEST from “One Health Network”

February 3, 2010

http://www.onehealthnet.be

VetsWeb.com

New insights in pigs spreading Hendra virus to humans

//02 Feb 2010

http://www.vetsweb.com/news/new-insights-in-pigs-spreading-hendra-virus-to-humans-863.html

Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:5

Francis E G Cox

History of the discovery of the malaria parasites and their vectors

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-3-5.pdf

Schistosomiasis vaccine discovery using immunomics

Patrick Driguez , Denise L Doolan , Alex Loukas , Philip L Felgner and Donald P McManus

Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:4doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-4

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/3/1/4

 http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-3-4.pdf

The recent publication of the Schistosoma japonicum and S. mansoni genomes has expanded greatly the opportunities for post-genomic schistosomiasis vaccine research. Immunomics protein microarrays provide an excellent application of this new schistosome sequence information, having been utilised successfully for vaccine antigen discovery with a range of bacterial and viral pathogens, and malaria. Accordingly, we have designed and manufactured a Schistosoma immunomics protein microarray as a vaccine discovery tool. The microarray protein selection combined previously published data and in silico screening of available sequences for potential immunogens based on protein location, homology to known protective antigens, and high specificity to schistosome species. Following cloning, selected sequences were expressed cell-free and contact-printed onto nitrocellulose microarrays. The reactivity of microarray proteins with antisera from schistosomiasis-exposed/resistant animals or human patients can be measured with labelled secondary antibodies and a laser microarray scanner; highly reactive proteins can be further assessed as putative vaccines. This highly innovative technology has the potential to transform vaccine research for schistosomiasis and other parasitic diseases of humans and animals.

Interesting article intersecting human and animal health:

Volume 16, Number 2–February 2010

Domestic Animals and Epidemiology of Visceral Leishmaniasis, Nepal

Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Gert Van der Auwera, Suman Rijal, Albert Picado, Niko Speybroeck, Basudha Khanal, Simonne De Doncker, Murari Lal Das, Bart Ostyn, Clive Davies,¹ Marc Coosemans, Dirk Berkvens, Marleen Boelaert, and Jean-Claude Dujardin

http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/2/231.htm

Reprinted from Vetsweb.com

http://www.vetsweb.com/news/merial-ibd-summit-the-future-control-of-avian-diseases-852.html

Merial IBD summit: The future control of avian diseases

//27 Jan 2010

Reprinted from One Health Newsletter Winter Issue, January 2010

ProMED-mail and ONE HEALTH

 By Jack Woodall, PhD, Lawrence C. Madoff, MD, Alison Bodenheimer, MPH*, Peter Cowen, DVM, MPVM, PhD, Dipl. AVES (Hon), Thanis Damrongwatanapokin, DVM, PhD, Fabian Ekue, DVM, MSc, PhD, Tam Garland, DVM, PhD, D.ABVT, Martin Hugh-Jones, VetMB, MPH, PhD, FACE, MRCVS, Arnon Shimshony, DVM, Tom Yuill, PhD

“ProMED-mail since its inception, has espoused the “One Health” concept.”

Reprinted from One Health Newsletter Winter Issue, January 2010

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OHNL Winter2010.pdf

ONE WORLD, ONE HEALTH – AN UTOPIAN DREAM OR A REALITY?

By S.K. Lam, PhD

Reprinted from One Health Newsletter Winter Issue, January 2010

Influenza A Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Virus Infection in Domestic Cat  B.A. Sponseller et al.

Download PDF  http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/3/pdfs/09-1737.pdf  (1,137 KB, 7 pages)

Important Monograph Publication with One Health implications:

Global Disease Surveillance, Emergent Disease Preparedness, and National Security by Carleton J. Phillips, Anne M. Harrington, Terry L. Yates, Gary L. Simpson and Robert J. Baker

Museum of Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas

Note: A free download, as a PDF, is available at www.nsrl.ttu.edu.

A Website Containing Important Articles of “One Health” significance:

CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)

Public Health Matters

The exciting public health work of preventing and controlling infectious diseases.

• National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases

RADM Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH (USPHS)
Assistant Surgeon General & Director (acting)
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-borne, and Enteric Diseases
DHHS/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Listening to our communities and sharing stories of our passion at www.cdc.gov/nczved/blog/

New Year's Resolution: "One Health" Recognition and Implementation without delay. Protect and save human and animal life today and tomorrow!

‘One Health’ - the Rosetta stone for 21st century health and health providers  

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_3/377.htm:

“…no single person, no single health profession, no single organization, and no single nation or people invented

 or owns One Health.  It is an all inclusive, co-equal endeavor that belongs to all of humanity.  A caveat: while

 honest debate over efficacious process should be welcome, factionalism should not.”

Note: Co-author Dr. Mary Echols is the Editor, ‘One Health Newsletter’, a quarterly online publication from the Florida Department of Health’s Division of Environmental Health (USA).

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html

Florida Department of Health (USA) Director of Environmental Health Division Presented One Health Paper at Doha, Qatar Scientific Program December 16, 2009 (view attached PowerPoint Slides):

Lisa Conti, DVM, MPH, Director of the Florida Department of Health’s (USA) Environmental Health Division and One Health Newsletter editorial board member, presented a talk entitled “Thé intersection between Human and Animal Health - Zoonotic Diseases” http://www.q-medec.com/brochures/Congress%20Booklet.pdf  Wednesday, December 16 as an invited speaker at the Qatar International Medical Exhibition & Congress 2009 http://www.medical-events.com/congress/q-medec-qatar-international-medical-exhibition-congress-2009 in Doha, Qatar. 

The Qatar Health Conference 2009 http://www.q-medec.com/, the first of its kind for the State of Qatar, was held in the Doha Exhibition Center, December 12-16.  Dr. Conti’s presentation was one of 12 in the "Development and Implementation of Disaster Reduction Strategies in the Middle East" Disaster Track. 

Dr. Conti focused her One Health talk on zoonoses which may be used as bioterrorist agents using slides from both Iowa State University's ‘train the trainer’ preparedness tools as well as colleagues' presentations. She also mentioned toxicological environmental and occupational health issues.  As with most other presenters in this track, the audience did not ask questions or appear to contact the speakers after the talks. The organizers established the objectives of the conference and exhibition to promote awareness of medical research, service, products and equipment and to boost the country's healthcare market.

Dr. Conti, a noted American public health veterinarian, and prominent American public health physician at Yale Medical School, Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, published a groundbreaking ‘first of its kind’ One Health book December 18, 2009 entitled Human-Animal Medicine – Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses and other Shared Health Risks http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781416068372. 

Links between human and animal health gain new attention

 Guest Column in thé Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Sarasota, Florida (USA), December 22, 2009

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20091222/COLUMNIST/912221024/2127?Title=Links-between-human-and-animal-health-gain-new-attention

By BRUCE KAPLAN, D.V.M. Guest Columnist

Published: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 21, 2009 at 8:35 p.m.

On Dec. 2, 2008, the Herald-Tribune published a guest column titled "In age of pandemics, human and animal health intersect" describing the preceding two years of progress of the "One Health Initiative," a movement to accelerate and enhance health and health care research for humans and animals, greatly increase public-health efficacy, expand the scientific knowledge base and improve patient clinical health care on a national and global scale.

At that time, few in the medical communities and general population were aware of this dynamic process and its great potential. While improved, this knowledge gap still prevails.

Physicians, veterinarians and other health science leaders of the "One Health" movement knew then that implementation will result in life-protecting and life-saving advances for health and health care worldwide. Numerous examples are documented. While the concept was promoted by visionary scientific professionals during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, it was not until the early 21st century that its time had come to be recognized in crucial terms.

Approximately 75 percent of emerging infectious diseases affecting humans are transmissible from animals to humans (zoonos-es), i.e. of animal origin. Some pose bioterrorism threats. About 60 percent of all human pathogens are zoonotic and have become of sufficient concern as to force federal and state government public-health officials to take notice.

Examples include avian influenza viruses, AIDS, SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome), West Nile virus and many others. These signal the urgent need for human and veterinary medicine to renew and increase collaborative research efforts.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, along with the American Medical Association, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Veterinary Medical Association and many others around the world recognize the dire need for instituting One Health principles. This means forging co-equal, inclusive communications and scientific collaborations among physicians, veterinarians and all scientific health-related disciplines.

A One Health Commission has been established to help implement the concept and raise awareness of the importance of transcending institutional and disciplinary boundaries to improve health outcomes for all species. Moreover, the National Academy of Sciences' Board on Global Health of the Institute of Medicine and the Institute for Laboratory Animal Research of the National Research Council recently announced their intention to conduct a study of One Health in early 2010, pending adequate funding (http://www.iom.edu/en/Reports.aspx).

The Florida Department of Health's Environmental Health Division has become a significant national leader in the One Health movement by establishing a widely read One Health Newsletter Web site (http://www.doh.state. fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html.) Public health and clinical medicine/surgery experts in the U.S. and worldwide have been attracted to submit One Health articles. The newsletter's editorial board works in tandem with the One Health Initiative Web site, managed by a team of two physicians, a veterinarian and a Ph.D virologist-scientist (www.onehealthinitiative.com). This Web site endeavors to provide pertinent global One Health news, publications and upcoming events items.

The director of the Florida Department of Health's Environmental Health Division, Dr. Lisa Conti, a noted public health veterinarian, and physician Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, a prominent Yale Medical School public-health authority, have co-authored "Human-Animal Medicine -- Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants and Other Shared Health Risks," a groundbreaking One Health book for use by practitioners of medicine and veterinary medicine. The book is expected to published in mid-December.

Among other worldwide One Health activities, the first International One Health Congress meeting is being planned for Feb. 14-16, 2011, in Melbourne, Australia. Many aspects of human and animal health, the environment and global survival will be discussed by eminent international health scientists.

Hopefully, the time has come for a life-protecting, life-saving strategy that has been largely missing from the scene, yet promoted by visionary public-health leaders for centuries.

Dr. Bruce Kaplan is a Sarasota veterinarian and primary content manager of the One Health Initiative Web site.

This story appeared in print on page A8
All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be re-published without permission. Links are encouraged.  Permission to reprint on One Health Initiative website granted December 22, 2009 by Thomas L. Tryon, Editor, Opinion Page Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

A “One Health” Approach to Address Emerging Zoonoses: The HALI Project in Tanzania

PloS Medicine - http://www.plosmedicine.org – December 15, 2009

Jonna A. K. Mazet^1*, Deana L. Clifford¹, Peter B. Coppolillo², Anil B. Deolalikar³, Jon D. Erickson⁴, Rudovick R. Kazwala⁵

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

Jonna Mazet and colleagues describe their work 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.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000190

"Rabies in the 21st Century - A Global Challenge", appears in Volume 27, Issue 51 of Vaccine. 

 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5188-2009-999729948-1562167

New on the AI Toolkit this week (14 – 20 December)

Case Study

Pandemic 2009 as a case study for disease surveillance and risk assessment

Using ‘Pandemic 2009’ as a case study example, Angus Nicoll for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, discusses disease surveillance and risk assessment, and what can and cannot be assumed in the future. Also covered are vaccination issues, pressures on emergency room services, and lessons learned.

Feature Document

Surveillance for Influenza 'A' virus in animal populations: what can work?

Delivered by Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology, Colorado State University – Mo Salman – at the Influenza at the Interface between Human and Animals Conference, this presentation takes a look at surveillance systems and other prevention strategies for H5N1 in animal populations.

News

Cases of Influenza A-Infected Pigs Confirmed in Korea

Safari West cheetah first zoo animal with swine flu

More pandemic influenza A H1N1 articles released  

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE 'ONE HEALTH COMMISSION' (USA) SUMMIT IN WASHINGTON, DC ON NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Institute of Medicine - One Health Study Potential Highly Significant:

For National and Global One Health Implementation and Institutionalization

Prepared by Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Thomas P. Monath, MD and Jack Woodall, PhD - November 30, 2009

European Union survey on MRSA in pigs: Spain highest contamination rate

vetsweb.com -  November 27, 2009

http://www.vetsweb.com/news/eu-survey-on-mrsa-in-pigs-spain-highest-contamination-rate-688.html

One Health Academic Programs of Importance

      Obtained from  http://phpartners.org/index.html and http://phpartners.org/veterinary.html

       Combined Master of Public Health/Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Program - College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University (Fort Collins, CO) - The College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics have created a combined 5-year program of study that can result in earning both the Masters in Public Health degree and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees.

       Coordinated MPH (Health Behavior) DVM (School of Veterinary Medicine) - Auburn University, School of Veterinary Medicine and University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Public Health

       Doctor of Veterinary Medicine/Master of Public Health (DVM/MPH) Joint Degree - University of Florida

       Dual Degree DVM/MPH - School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin - Madison

       DVM-MPH Degree Program - University of Georgia College of Veterinary Medicine

       DVM/Master of Public Health Program - Tufts University (North Grafton, MA)

       DVM/Masters of Public Health Program - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

       DVM/MPH dual degree program - College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI) - The Michigan State University College of Veterinary Medicine offers a DVM/MPH degree program in collaboration with the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

       DVM/MPH Dual-Degree Program at the University of Minnesota - The Veterinary Public Health (VPH) program allows students to combine their veterinary studies at any accredited veterinary college while pursuing the M.P.H. at the University of Minnesota, School of Public Health.

       Emphasis in Infectious Disease/Zoonoses, Master of Public Health Program - Kansas State University

       Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine - University of California- Davis - This specialized master's degree program focuses on preventive medicine, but is not an accredited public health degree.

       Master of Science in Veterinary Public Health Texas A&M - The Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health program is administered through the Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences within the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

       Master of Veterinary Public Health - North Carolina State University

       MPH Program for Veterinarians - The University of Iowa College of Public Health and Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine

       Purdue University Graduate Certificate Program in Veterinary Homeland Security - National Biosecurity Resource Center for Animal Health Emergencies - Long-distance graduate-level program with courses certified by APHIS.

       Veterinary Public Health - University of Glasgow

       Veterinary Public Health Concentration - University of Tennessee

       Veterinary Public Health Program - The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine

The Alliance for Rabies Control's November 2009 newsletter is now available on our website at:

www.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter15.pdf 

It includes articles on a rabies control project in India, rabies risks to cavers, the early history of rabies, 

a World Rabies Day project in Congo, updates on the Alliance's Bohol rabies control project, photographs

from the 3rd World Rabies Day and various news updates about rabies and the Alliance's work.

 We have again included hyperlinks in the pdf file. Whilst reading the pdf file you can now click on the links

(highlighted by blue text) and access the linked webpages directly.

 With Best Wishes,

Deborah Briggs, Executive Director of the Alliance, 

and Louise Taylor, newsletter editor 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19157669

Soc Sci Med. 2009 Mar;68(6):991-5. Epub 2009 Jan 20.

Animal-human connections, "one health," and the syndemic approach to prevention.

Rock M, Buntain BJ, Hatfield JM, Hallgrímsson B.

Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. mrock@ucalgary.ca

A syndemic involves two or more afflictions that, by interacting synergistically, contribute to excess burdens of disease. A syndemic approach to prevention, meanwhile, focuses on connections among health-related problems, considers those connections when developing health policies, and aligns with forces for social change. In this short report, we expand the syndemic concept to acknowledge the extent to which animal health connects with human health and, with reference to existing publications, we demonstrate the pertinence of this expanded definition for a syndemic approach to prevention. Our demonstration assumes practical importance in relation to the concept of 'one health', which many prominent veterinary and human health scientists have recently endorsed as a sound basis for redressing human diseases, animal diseases, and environmental degradation worldwide. While social scientists have mostly ignored animal health, few 'one health' proponents have emphasized social conditions or involved social scientists. By explicitly accommodating animal-human connections in our expanded conceptualization of a syndemic, we hope to help create a space in which human health, veterinary, and social scientists may learn from one another, collaborate in research, and cooperate to clear the way for innovations in prevention.  PMID: 19157669 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Dutch call to investigate Q-fever effects in people

vetsweb.com - 13 Nov 2009

http://www.vetsweb.com/news/dutch-call-to-investigate-q-fever-effects-in-people-643.html

Eurosurveillance, Volume 14, Issue 45, 12 November 2009

 Editorials

 Antibiotic resistance in Europe: the challenges ahead  http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19405

http://researchmagazine.uga.edu/fall2009/ugaresearch-Fall-2009.pdf

Fall 2009 Issue

UGAresearch – Vol 38, No. 2 - Discovery and Innovation at the University of Georgia

See: Reference to One Health on page 9.

One Health Liaison Website Links with University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine

                                            November 4, 2009

“The University of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine is emerging as a leader in interdisciplinary research into new treatments that will benefit human and animal health — the One Health/One Medicine concept.” …read more, see link below:

http://cvm.missouri.edu/news/onehealthinitiative.htm

Rabies cases a continuing threat to global public health: Ancient disease still a modern problem

The NATION’S HEALTH – American Public Health Association

http://www.apha.org/publications/tnh/current/Nov2009/Nation/RabiesNAT.htm

Provided by:

Peter J. Costa, MPH, CHES

Global Communications Coordinator

Global Alliance for Rabies Control

World Rabies Day Campaign

00 + 1.919.830.2199

peter.costa@worldrabiesday.org

www.worldrabiesday.org

IMPORTANT!  Sustaining Global Surveillance and Response to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12625

Authors:
Gerald T. Keusch, Marguerite Pappaioanou, Mila C. Gonzalez, Kimberly A. Scott, and Peggy Tsai, Editors; Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin; National Research Council
Authoring Organizations

Description:

H1N1 ("swine flu"), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases--diseases transmitted between humans and animals. Emerging zoonoses are a growing concern given multiple factors, including an increase in zoonotic disease outbreaks, their often novel ...
Read More

Confronting Infectious Diseases in an Interconnected World:

People, Animals, and the Environment

The National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne and Enteric Diseases (NCZVED)

Strategic Framework 2009 - 2014

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Agriculture

  The Future of the agricultural life sciences in the Netherlands

    A vision for 2020 and beyond

Provided by:

Prof Arno N. Vermeulen, PhD

Immuno Valley

General Management & Valorisation

PO Box 80163

Yalelaan 1

3508 TD Utrecht

T +31(0)30.2531618

M +31(0)6.46311342

www.immunovalley.nl

“One Medicine/One Health”: Personal Reflections of a True Believer

One Health Power Point Slides of Note: http://www.vet.ksu.edu/studentorgs/phc/pdf/One_Health_ICEID_Mar08Final.pdf

Thomas P. Monath, MD

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

  Global One Health Concerns That Demand Veterinary Attention

          “The Calvin Schwabe One Health Project is producing a new generation of veterinarians who will

be ready to lead a collaborative, transdisciplinary, multi-species effort to improve global health. With

expertise in biohazard events, food and water safety, vector-borne diseases, established and emerging

zoonotic diseases, herd health, foreign animal risks, and public health issues such as antimicrobial resistance,

these graduates will be positioned as true One Health advocates and practitioners of the future.”

See Full Text in Lead Article on One Health Newsletter - Summer Issue

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OHNLSummer2009.pdf

For more information, visit the Calvin Schwabe One Health Project website at:

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/

‘Frontiers in One Health’ seminar series (see attached flyer)

This is being offered to the School of Veterinary Medicine on the University of California, Davis campus (USA); the community of Davis and Sacramento, California, the UCDavis Medical School and Nursing School, and the public at large.

                  All Lectures Free…Open to Public

            Details Coming soon…More Speakers to Follow

Provided by:

Cheryl Scott, RN, NP, DVM, MPVM

Calvin Schwabe One Health Project

Program Director

UCDavis School of Veterinary Medicine (USA)

Deans Office Surge IV

RM 119

530.754.0324

cascott@ucdavis.edu

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/

Veterinaria Italiana 2009 – Volume 45(3), July-September

‘One Health’ – the Rosetta stone for 21^st century health and health providers

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_3/377.htm

and see complete issue: http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_3/45_3.htm

Includes In memoriam for…

http://news.canarydatabase.org/archives/25

Canary Database Project News

September 14, 2009

New Book: HUMAN-ANIMAL MEDICINE: Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses and Other Shared Health Risks

Editors: Rabinowitz, P. Conti, L.

Release Date: December 2009

ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-6837-2

ISBN-10: 1-4160-6837-6

Abstract: Human-Animal Medicine focuses on the emerging diseases that cross between animals and humans, and points out the important environmental changes related to land use, climate change, intensification of food production, and other factors that help manifest these diseases. This evidence-based practice manual is designed to help you manage a wide range of clinical problems at the intersection of human and animal health, with practical steps for implementing the concept of “One Health” in daily practice of human and veterinary medicine and public health. Develop all the skills you need to effectively manage human-animal health problems with this timely, comprehensive resource.

Link to more detail on the book.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookbibliographicinfo.cws_home/720333/description

Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Duke University Graduate Medical School - Singapore

http://kooprime.tzo.com:8089/Duke-PEID/

Duane J. Gubler, ScD, FAAAS, FIDSA

Director

Program on Emerging Infectious Disease

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School,

8 College Road,  Singapore 169857

and

Asian Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases

University of Hawaii, Honolulu

E-mail:duane.gubler@duke-nus.edu.sg

Tel:65 6516 7256

Tie to Pets Has Germ [MRSA] Jumping to and Fro

MRSA = Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

The New York Times

By BRENDA GOODMAN

Published: September 21, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/health/22mrsa.html?_r=1&em

The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) helps direct and develop uniform public health procedures involving zoonotic disease in the United States and its territories.

http://www.nasphv.org/

It’s time for the annual Rabies in the Americas (RITA) conference benefit auction and your help is needed!

For more information contact: Richard Chipman (richard.b.chipman@aphis.usda.gov) and see PDF View.

Supplied by: Peter J. Costa, MPH, CHES

 Global Communications Coordinator for the Rabies Alliance

http://www.isid.org/publications/ISIDnewsletter200909.shtml

International Society for Infectious Diseases NEWS

September 2009 Issue

Includes upcoming international meetings

One world, one health message brought home

RE: The Ontario Veterinary College’s Animal Welfare Club

Email the author

September 13, 2009

Vik Kirsch
vkirsch@guelphmercury.com

http://news.guelphmercury.com/article/532760

“THE MAKING OF MODERN NEW MEXICO:

THE ROLE OF GOVERNOR KING”

Environmental Health and Protection Memories

@UNM Law School, September 11, 2009

An interesting read submitted by a dynamic One Health environmental and public health figure:

Larry Gordon, MS, MPH, DHL, DEAAS

1674 Tierra del Rio NW

Albuquerque, NM 87107

One Health: A Primer for the Iowa Public Health Workforce

By Dr. Russell Currier

See on page 5 of Public Health Matters:

A Quarterly Publication of the Iowa Public Health Association

One Health Principles in Mongolia (also on Website News page)

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

September 9^th 2009

By Nigel Brown, BVSc, MSc, MACVSc, MRCVS, Zolzaya Baljinnyam, BVM, MIPH , and Enkhtur Byakharjav, BVM, MSc

A Model of Environmental Health as practiced at the Florida State Department of Health (USA)

Audio-Visual Production (Requires Sound)

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/environment/learning/hse/index.htm

The HORSE.com

Diseases Potentially Spread from Horses to Humans Via Bites Reviewed

by: Stacey Oke, DVM, MSc
August 26 2009, Article # 14792

http://www.thehorse.com/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=14792

 ‘Emerging zoonotic epidemics in the interconnected global community’

–       A Veterinary Record publication, November 26, 2005

By:

Paul Gibbs, BVSc, PhD, FRCVS
Professor of Virology
College of Veterinary Medicine
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, 32608  (USA)

This article is one of the most cogently presented cases for “One Health” implementation on the global public health scene ever

Reprinted with permission from ALN Europe™ www.alneurope.com

http://www.alneurope.com/articles.asp?pid=55

The Case For A "One Health" Paradigm Shift
By Bruce Kaplan, DVM and Mary Echols, DVM, MPH
September/October 2009

The One Health concept calls for a merging of perspectives from within human and veterinary medical disciplines.

A public health emergency declared due to the newly emerged “swine flu” virus (H1N1) was recently classified as a worldwide pandemic. This is definitely an indication of impending similar, serious “brewing storms”. Since 1998, public health officials and scientists have been speculating about this with the avian flu (H5N1) virus strain. Fortunately, this has not evolved yet and may never do so. But, make no mistake; we are on the precipice of unpleasant health and health care threats that need to be addressed.

These influenza events, plus the fact that approximately 75% of recently emerging infectious diseases affecting humans are diseases of animal origin, strongly suggest the need for a paradigm change on how public health approaches these phenomena called “zoonotic diseases”, i.e. diseases transmissible from animals to man.

Today, many institutional, geographic, and financial barriers often prohibit meaningful interactions among experts. The result is that surveillance, research, prevention, and control measures for cross-species infections like influenza and dangerous bacteria emerging from antibiotic resistance, like those demonstrated by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) between pigs and people, have been short changed. This deficit must be rectified in order to pursue an enlightened course of modern health and health care for this generation and for generations to come.

The 1918-1919 influenza pandemic killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide. Emerging influenza viruses have been isolated from a variety of animals, including humans, pigs, horses, wild and domestic birds, and sea mammals. The recent events caused by swine flu came to light only when human cases occurred. The interval between cross-species spread and the declaration of a public health emergency was extremely brief, a matter of days. It is reasonable to ask: could surveillance for the emergence of new strains of flu be more effective if targeted at animals—the “mixing pot” of flu virus evolution? Could we develop more effective tools to identify strains with potential to spill over from animals to humans?

Besides influenza, other animal diseases are transmissible to humans. Hantaviruses exist in various rodent reservoirs where the hosts are persistently infected without disease symptoms. Specific hantaviruses transmitted from the contaminated urine and feces of infected rodents cause two important human diseases, hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus-pulmonary syndrome (HPS). Nipah virus is a newly discovered virus of fruit bats responsible for encephalitis outbreaks in southeast Asia. West Nile, a virus of birds, invaded the U.S. in 1999 and is now endemic. Emerging bacterial disease agents can be transmitted by food animals including E. coli 0157:H7, various Salmonella species, Campylobacter species, and Streptococcus iniae (from farmed fish). Leptospirosis is the most common rat-transmitted disease in the United States.

Combating zoonoses effectively will require a “One Health” approach—an interdisciplinary collaborative model for prevention and control of infectious disease epidemics, as well as chronic illnesses (e.g. cancer, obesity, orthopedic prosthetics, genetics, and others) that affect humans and animals. Physicians, veterinarians, ecologists, environmental scientists, laboratory animal specialists, and other health science-related disciplines must work together, equally without regard to “turf” barriers.

ACHIEVEMENTS THROUGH INTEGRATION
The One Health concept promotes the integration of human, animal, and environmental health by communication and collaboration among multiple disciplines. Successful One Health examples during the late 19th century and 20th century include:

Yellow Fever - In 1893, Theobald Smith (physician) and Frederick L. Kilborne (veterinarian) published a seminal paper on Texas cattle fever transmitted by ticks that set the stage for Walter Reed’s discovery of yellow fever transmission via mosquitoes.

Anthrax - In 1903, John McFadyean (veterinarian with a degree in veterinary medicine and medicine) published a paper on “McFadyean methylene-blue reaction in anthrax”, still referred to and recognized in microbiology texts.^2,3 It is currently noted as “the ideal method for demonstration of the [anthrax] capsule.”⁴ McFadyean is regarded as the founder of modern veterinary research.

Tuberculosis - In 1921, Albert Calmette (physician) and Jean-Marie Camille Guerin (veterinarian) collaborations resulted in the “BCG” Tuberculosis vaccine that, along with the use of streptomycin, was credited with a dramatic reduction in the human toll from Tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis contracted by contact from infected cattle.

Immune System - In 1996, Rolf M. Zinkernagel (physician) and Peter C. Doherty (veterinarian) won the Nobel Prize for discovering how the body’s immune system distinguishes normal cells from virusinfected cells.5,6

ONE HEALTH COLLABORATIONS ADVANCE SCIENCE
In 1976, Frederick A. Murphy (veterinarian) and Karl M. Johnson (physician) worked closely together (along with others) to help unravel the mystery surrounding the initial outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever and discovered its etiologic agent, Ebola virus^5,6

Karl M. Johnson, MD is Past Director, Middle America Research Unit - NIAID, NIH Founding Chief -Special Pathogens Branch, CDC (retired). Commenting on their work together, Johnson noted, “Fred Murphy and I collaborated on zoonotic viruses, their pathogenesis, epidemiology, and ecology; initially at great distance but later in daily contact at CDC. Although Ebola virus was perhaps the most notable project, our work over many years truly exemplifies the concept of One World, One Medicine, One Health.

“My prayer is that support, both scientific and financial, for the marriage of human and veterinary medicine will grow at an ever expanding rate. The earth requires it.”

Fred Murphy, DVM, PhD, University of Texas Medical Branch, Department of Pathology, reflected on the work of some of the pioneers. He stated, “My recent delving into the foundations of medical and veterinary virology has provided much evidence of common roots and incredible early interplay, much more than we see today. For example, Walter Reed and his colleagues, the discoverers of the first human virus, yellow fever virus, acknowledged the influence of Friedrich Loeffler and Paul Frosch, who had discovered the first virus, foot-and-mouth disease virus, a few years earlier.

“From my reading, it was Sir William Osler, the founder of modern human medicine and of veterinary pathology, who in the late 1800s coined the term ‘One Medicine’. Calvin Schwabe, the inspiring veterinary epidemiologist from UC Davis, has been credited with revitalizing the concept, and now it seems that the concept is gaining new breadth and depth, thanks to the efforts of the One Health Initiative. As others have noted, bringing substance to the concept, shaking up institutions and individuals, will require a difficult and long-term effort, especially as this applies to the interplay of physicians, veterinarians and biological scientists in biomedical research and in the scholarly base for public health—but, as [golfer] Arnold Palmer said, “Never up, never in.”

In an impressive One Health example in the 21st century, veterinarian James “Jimi” Cook, DVM, PhD, a University of Missouri-Columbia college of veterinary medicine Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, and physician B. Sonny Bal, MD, JD, MBA, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery college of medicine have been investigating practicable clinical medicine betterment in the field of orthopedics—for humans and animals. Drs. Cook and Bal have collaborated for about seven years on efforts to create hip and knee replacements without using commonplace biomechanical metal and plastic materials. The technique being developed by Cook for dogs involves use of laboratory grown tissue (cartilage) that can be molded into replicas of joints that require replacement. Bal and Cook are jointly developing a process whereby a similar process can be adapted for humans.⁷

Following a June 2009 story in the Missourian where both men were recognized for their important biomedical research, Dr. Bal commented, “Jimi Cook and I have worked alongside a team of specialists from medicine, veterinary medicine, and engineering for seven years now. Our current focus is to develop replacement joints that mimic the natural process of cartilage and bone formation as they grow and develop. This kind of collaboration is essential to the creation of better options for the replacement of failing hips and other joints. By working with specialists in the veterinary field, we are able to evaluate our technology more rapidly, and that means that we will be able to develop these alternatives for humans sooner than if we worked alone.”

ONGOING EFFORTS
The early 21st century physician and former President of the American Medical Association, Ronald Davis, MD [now deceased] collaborated with the former President of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Roger K. Mahr, DVM helping to establish a bond between the AMA and AVMA. Davis skillfully shepherded an historic One Health supportive resolution through to adoption by the AMA membership—a major milestone in the progress of this modern day One Health movement.

In July 2007, Dr. Davis said, “I'm delighted that the AMA House of Delegates has approved a resolution calling for increased collaboration between the human and veterinary medical communities and I look forward to seeing a stronger partnership between physicians and veterinarians. Emerging infectious diseases, with the threats of cross-species transmission and pandemics, represent one of many reasons why the human and veterinary medical professions must work more closely together”.

A large number of North American professional organizations have endorsed the One Health concept. Among these are the American Medical Association; American Veterinary Medical Association; American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene; Association of American Medical Colleges; and American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges. Globally, One Health has been recognized by the Immuno Valley Consortium in The Netherlands; the Indian Veterinary Public Health Association; The Institute for Preventive Veterinary Medicine and Food Safety, Lazio and Tuscany Regions, Italy; the Italian Society of Preventive Medicine; the Corporation Red SPVet, Bogota, Colombia; and others.

A recent One Health monograph—containing 13 diverse essays—was published in the European Journal, Veterinaria Italiana. It provides a strong scientific international case for implementing the One Health model worldwide. It is the product of 53 prominent interdisciplinary professionals (physicians, veterinarians, and health scientists) from twelve countries.¹

CONCLUSION
The One Health concept is a global strategy that is expanding within public health and academic circles. However, it is not widely known among practicing physicians, veterinarians, news media, or the general public. Once implemented, the synergism achieved will advance health care for the 21st century and beyond by accelerating biomedical research discoveries, enhancing public health efficacy, expeditiously expanding the scientific knowledge base, and improving medical education and clinical care. Seeking essential practicable “out of the box” scientific knowledge will most likely require a mind merging of various perspectives from within human and veterinary medical disciplines as well as others.

References:

1.       Kaplan, Bruce, Laura H. Kahn, and Thomas P. Monath. "'One Health - One Medicine': linking human, animal and environmental health." Veterinaria Italiana Volume 45 (1)(2009) Web http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/ 2009/45_1/45_1.htm.

2.       Pattison, Ian. John Mcfaydyean: Founder of Modern Veterinary Research. London: J.A. Allen, 1981. Print.

3.       Dunlop, RH and DJ Williams. Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History. Mosby, 1996. Print.

4.       WHO Blood Safety and Technology: Manual for Laboratory Diagnosis of Anthrax. Last update: 27 April 2006.

5.       Kahn, LH, B. Kaplan, and JH Steele. "Confronting zoonoses through closer colaboration between medicine and veterinary medicine." Veterinaria Italiana 43 (1)(2007) 5-19. Web. http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2007/ 43_1/5_19.pdf.

6.       Kahn, LH, B. Kaplan, and TP Monath. ""One Health" in Action Series http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/195.htm." June 7, 2007. Online Posting. One Health/One Medicine. Web:

7.       7. Monath, Thomas P., Bruce Kaplan, Laura H. Kahn, and Jack Woodall. One Health Initiative. http://www.onehealthinitiative.com.

Dr. Bruce Kaplan, a retired veterinarian, is a former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA) epidemiologist, practitioner of small animal medicine, United States Department of Agriculture-Food Safety Inspection Service public affairs specialist and staff officer in Washington, DC and a writer/editor/ columnist. Dr. Kaplan currently helps manage the One Health Initiative website and serves on the editorial board of the One Health Newsletter. www.onehealthinitiative.com bkapdvm@verizon.net

Dr. Mary Echols, a public health veterinarian, is with the Palm Beach County Health Department, Palm Beach, Florida (USA). Dr. Echols is the Editor of the One Health Newsletter, a product of the Florida Department of Health, Division of Environmental Health and collaborates closely with the One Health Initiative website One Health team. www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html, Mary_Echols2@doh.state.fl.us

Great One Health Leader in virology, pathology receives “World Veterinary Award”

Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD is the second illustrious winner of the coveted and prestigious Penn Vet World Leadership Award.

See details at http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/may09/090515dd.asp

Dr. Murphy is a longstanding recognized One Health leader, supporter and advocate. 

Among many other “One Health” in Action stories during a most distinguished career, the following was published on the One Health Initiative website and reprinted in the recently published Veterinaria Italiana One Health monograph http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/195.htm:

June 7, 2007

Prepared by Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP - Bruce Kaplan, DVM - Thomas P. Monath, MD

“ONE HEALTH” … in Action!  [#1]

A prime example of “One Health” in action has been described with verve in Richard Preston’s book, “The Hot Zone.”  This was the story of how two of our  “One Health” supporters, both eminent virologists, Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD and Karl M. Johnson, MD worked closely together (along with others) to help unravel the mystery surrounding the initial outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever and how they discovered its etiologic agent, Ebola virus. 

Prior to working at CDC with Dr. Murphy (a veterinarian), Dr. Johnson (a physician) had directed the NIH Middle America Research Unit in the Panama Canal Zone, where he and his colleagues discovered one of the first viruses causing a hemorrhagic fever, i.e. Machupo virus, the etiologic agent of Bolivian hemorrhagic fever.  In addition to discovery and description of new zoonotic viruses, over many years Dr. Johnson worked in infectious disease epidemiology and on experimental therapies for several of the hemorrhagic fever agents. 

Dr. Murphy, a virologist / pathologist and Chief of the CDC Viral Pathology Laboratory and Dr. Johnson were close colleagues for several years at CDC, working hand-and-[surgical] glove together [the gloves were for protection against the dangerous pathogens they both dealt with in their laboratories].  According to Dr. Johnson, Dr. Murphy was “vitally interested in viral pathogenesis in addition to viral taxonomy, and was always ready to chime in when something novel appeared.”  While the two were working on Machupo virus at CDC in Atlanta in October 1976, along with the late medical virologist Patricia Webb, MD, they discovered Ebola virus in specimens from hemorrhagic fever victims received from Sudan and Zaire (now the People’s Republic of Congo).  One of the famous electron micrographs taken by Dr. Murphy at that time showed an Ebola virus virion as a “Sheppard’s crook.”  This image is almost as famous as its photographer!

These very brief comments about these two public health pioneers represent only a fraction of what they have accomplished together and separately.  But they reflect how veterinary medicine and human medicine can come together, in a kind of scientific meeting-of-the-minds, in this case resulting in the discovery of an important hemorrhagic fever virus---a virus that has continued in recent years to plague the people of central Africa.  Hemorrhagic fever viruses are now designated by CDC as potential bioterrorism agents. 

ONE HEALTH COMMISSION (USA) FORMED TO PROMOTE COLLABORATION ACROSS HUMAN, ANIMAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

Washington, D.C.—August 26, 2009—A new national commission, the One Health Commission (USA) has been established to spotlight the connections between human, animal, and environmental health, as well as the benefits of proactive and collaborative approaches toward better health for all.  …

Please click PDF to view entire news release.

Zoonoses and Public Health

August 2009 issue of Zoonoses and Public Health, Volume 56, pages 407-428.

Emerging Infections: A Tribute to the One Medicine, One Health Concept

R. E. Kahn ¹ , D. F. Clouser ² and J. A. Richt ²

  ¹ Avian Flu Action, Warrington, Cheshire, UK
  ² Diagnostic Medicine/Pathobiology Department, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

Correspondence to J. A. Richt. Medicine/Pathobiology Department, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, K224B Mosier Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA. Tel.: +1 785 532 4408; Fax: +1 785 532 4039; E-mail: jricht@vet.k-state.edu

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/122408425/abstract

Graciously provided by One Health supporter/advocate:

Robert E. Kahn, PhD

Co-ordinator, Avian Flu Action

40 St Stephen Road

Great Sankey

Warrington WA5 2BJ

United Kingdom

One Health Editorial Published on ‘Parasites and Vectors’…

'ONE HEALTH' and Parasitology

Editorial    
'ONE HEALTH' and parasitology
Bruce Kaplan, Laura H Kahn, Thomas P Monath, Jack Woodall
Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2:36 (12 August 2009)
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/

Direct to copy: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/2/1/36

or http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-2-36.pdf

Please see important One Health abstract:

“From One medicine to one health and systemic approaches to health and well-being”

Authors:  J. Zinsstag, E. Schelling, D. Waltner-Toews, M. Tanner

Published by the 12th IVEE Conference in Durban, South Africa

Graciously provided by:

Jakob Zinsstag-Klopfenstein DVM PhD (Assistant Professor)
Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health
Swiss Tropical Institute
PO Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 284 81 39
Fax: +41 61 284 81 05
email: jakob.zinsstag@unibas.ch
web: www.sti.ch/en/research/public-health-and-epidemiology/human-and-animal-health.html
BTB Africa web: www.africa-btb.net

For parcels please use the following address:
Socinstrasse 57, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland

Prevalence and risks for fishborne zoonotic trematode infections in domestic animals in a highly endemic area of North Vietnam.

PMID: 19660428 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19660428?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Human Brucella canis outbreak linked to infection in dogs.

PMID: 19653929 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19653929?ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Please see “Parasites & Vectors” www.parasitesandvectors.com  articles of One Health related– Public Health/ zoonotic disease interest below.

Note: The One Health Initiative website acknowledges and appreciates the cooperation, assistance and permission to freely publish/promote references to specific One Health related articles from Parasites & Vectors by Dr. Chris Arme:

Professor Chris Arme, DSc
Editor: Parasites & Vectors
www.parasitesandvectors.com
Huxley Building
School of Life Sciences
Keele University
Staffs. ST5 5BG    UK

Changing distribution patterns of canine vector borne diseases in Italy: leishmaniosis vs. dirofilariosis
Domenico Otranto, Gioia Capelli, Claudio Genchi
Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2(Suppl 1):S2 (26 March 2009)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

Short report     ]

Short report    

Short report    
A confusing case of canine vector-borne disease: clinical signs and progression in a dog co-infected with Ehrlichia canis and Bartonella vinsonii ssp. berkhoffii
Edward B Breitschwerdt, Ricardo G Maggi
Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2(Suppl 1):S3 (26 March 2009)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

Wild canids as sentinels of ecological health: a conservation medicine perspective
A Alonso Aguirre
Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2(Suppl 1):S7 (26 March 2009)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

Short report    

Short report    
Occurrence of Rickettsia felis in dog and cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from Italy
Gioia Capelli, Fabrizio Montarsi, Elena Porcellato, Giulia Maioli, Carmelo Furnari, Laura Rinaldi, Gaetano Oliva, Domenico Otranto
Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2(Suppl 1):S8 (20 April 2009)
[Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

Others of One Health-Public Health Interest:

Review    
Trypanosomiasis vector control in Africa and Latin America
Schofield CJ, Kabayo JP
Parasites & Vectors 2008, 1:24 (1 August 2008)
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles]

Review    
The history of African trypanosomiasis
Steverding D
Parasites & Vectors 2008, 1:3 (12 February 2008)
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [PubMed] [Related articles] [Cited on BioMed Central]

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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Participates in New One Health Initiative

By Eddy Ball
June 2009

Please see link:

http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsletter/2009/june/health.cfm

Notice: Important online Journal available – “Parasites and Vectors”

Please see link: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/

Editor-in-Chief: Chris Arme, DSc

“Parasites & Vectors expands upon the scope of two former BioMed Central publications, Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease and Filaria Journal, both of which ceased publication in December 2007. Authors working in the areas covered by these journals are encouraged to submit their work to Parasites & Vectors. The full archives of these two journals remain available from the Kinetoplastid Biology and Disease and Filaria Journal websites and PubMed Central.

The average time from manuscript submission to a first decision is 17 days.”

“Dr. Chris Arme is a parasitologist whose research interests are in the physiology of tapeworms, with particular emphasis on their nutrition and how these parasites interact with the physiological systems of their hosts. Since his doctoral studies at Leeds University he has maintained a special interest in the tapeworm, Ligula intestinalis, and its interactions with the reproductive systems of its fish host. In recognition of this work he was awarded a DSc from Keele University and a DSc honoris causa from the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. He is a Past-President of the British Society for Parasitology and was an Editor of Parasitology for 19 years. He is now Editor-in-Chief of the online open access journal Parasites & Vectors.”

World Health Organization – Weekly Epidemiological Record April 24, 2009

http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/disease_management/wer_2009_17_extract.pdf

Neglected zoonotic diseases (NZD)

http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/zoonoses/en/

Rationale

Zoonotic diseases such as anthrax, bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, cysticercosis, echinococcosis (hydatid disease) and rabies are endemic in many developing countries of Africa, Asia and south and central America.

Many of the most affected countries have poor or nonexistent veterinary public health (VPH) infrastructures. This situation has marginalized control of zoonoses to the gap between veterinary responsibilities and medical needs, generating a false perception that their burden and impact on society are low. As a result, neither the human and animal health resources nor the research needed for their control are available, spawning a category of neglected zoonotic diseases (NZDs).

Control of NZDs saves lives and secures livelihoods, offering a realistic and cost effective opportunity to alleviate poverty in remote rural and marginalized periurban communities. Interventions to control NZDs require coordination among veterinary, livestock and human health sectors that calls for a comprehensive and integrated interdisciplinary approach.
Figures on the impact of NZDs | List of specific NZDs

Goal

To control NZDs by preventing their occurrence in humans and by controlling and, where feasible, eliminating disease in their animal reservoirs. Integration is needed at two levels: across and between sectors as well as among diseases.

Objectives

To provide effective leadership and technical, financial and political support in controlling, preventing and eliminating NZDs.

Strategy

• Lead global and regional efforts to promote and coordinate the “one health” concept for control of NZDs and formulate a model for applying this integrated approach in the context of eco-systems that facilitate transmission of NZDs.
• Provide guidelines on establishing national VPH units, and clarify the role and structure of VPH units in the context of their contribution to health care, recognizing that their mandate extends beyond a given sector and beyond control of NZDs.
• Promote advocacy to emphasize the burden of NZDs on society and to create demand at all levels of society for control of NZDs.
• Develop or update guidelines for surveillance, prevention and control of specific NZDs and conduct, maintain and report inventories of activities and tools to control NZDs.

Contact

NTDnzdMail@who.int

The American Journal of Medicine, March 2008

Sunday June 28, 2009

“ONE HEALTH” – The Rosetta Stone for 21^st Century Health and Health Providers

 By Bruce Kaplan, DVM and Mary Echols, DVM, MPH

 “…no single person, no single health profession, no single organization, and no single nation or people invented or owns One Health.  It is an all inclusive, co-equal endeavor that belongs to all of humanity.  A caveat: while honest debate over efficacious process should be welcome, factionalism should not.”

Please view complete essay with photos/captions by clicking: PDF View

 This is original copy published for the first time on the One Health Initiative website.  It may be considered material within “the public domain” and is available for free re-publication with appropriate credit.

 PDF attachment available upon request. 

Contact:

bkapdvm@verizon.net or Mary_Echols2@doh.state.fl.us

NIGERIAN BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES GROUP

LAUNCHED!

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/nigerianbiomedicalandlifescientists/

June 22, 2009

Provided by:

Aminu Shittu, DVM, PgCert-IAH (Edinburgh)

The Royal Veterinary College,

University of London,

Royal College Street,

London NW1 0TU,

United Kingdom.

Email: ameen_vet@yahoo.com

Web: http://www.rvc.ac.uk/cida

Addendum provided July 10, 2009:

Membership is now building up (59 currently), encompassing scientists from fields of Human and Veterinary Medicine, insect biology, pharmacology/pharmacy, Biochemistry/diabetes research, Virology, Gastro-enterology and Hepatology, Biotechnology, Orthopeadic, and Microbiology.

 Cancer Therapy Vol. 6, 817-826, 2008 - Permission Granted

Of Mice and Men (and Dogs): development of a xenogeneic DNA vaccine for canine oral malignant melanoma. 

Philip J. Bergman, DVM, MS, PhD and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD

Provided by: Philip J. Bergman, DVM, MS, PhD

Centre for Public Health, Zoonoses Launched at University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College

May 04, 2009 - News Release

http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2009/05/centre_for_publ.html

As stated in the News Release (please see entire notice in link above) and repeated in full on this One Health Initiative’s website Publication page HTM View…A one-of-a-kind centre aimed at preventing and controlling emerging animal-related diseases that threaten public health has officially opened at the University of Guelph.

The Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses brings together scientists in a variety of fields to address new or re-emerging zoonotic diseases (those that can jump between animals and humans) such as the H1N1 flu virus, bird flu, E. coli 0157:H7 and West Nile virus…

Please see Centre For Public Health & Zoonoses  website for further information.

University of Guelph
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1

http://www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/cphaz/

One-health wonders – Thomas P. Monath, MD