World Health Organization:

 Antigenic and genetic characteristics of zoonotic influenza viruses and development of candidate vaccine viruses for pandemic preparedness

September 2011

“The development of representative candidate influenza vaccine viruses, coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), remains an essential component of the overall global strategy for pandemic preparedness. Comparisons of the candidate vaccine viruses with respect to antigenicity and their relationship to newly emerging viruses are ongoing and will be periodically reported by WHO. An update of current and completed vaccine clinical trials can be found on the WHO website1....”

Please read more: http://www.who.int/influenza/resources/documents/2011_09_h5_h9_vaccinevirusupdate.pdf

Review    

One Health: the Global Challenge of Epidemic and Endemic Leishmaniasis.

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/4/1/197

Palatnik-de-Sousa CB, Day MJ

Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:197 (10 October 2011)

[Abstract] [Provisional PDF] [PubMed]

Press Release: January 25, 2012

One Health Advocates Have a New Way to Connect On the One Health Commission (OHC) Website - USA

Contact:

Dr. Roger Mahr, One Health Commission, 515-294-0572, rkmahr@onehealthcommission.org

Connie Scovin, Center for Food Security and Public Health, 860-355-8599, cscovin@iastate.edu

AMES, Iowa – “The One Health Commission, a globally focused organization dedicated to the improved health of people, domestic animals, wildlife, plants and the environment has launched a newly redesigned website where people can share accomplishments and ideas using the One Health approach for global health benefits. The site address is www.onehealthcommission.org. .......”

Please read entire release: http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/OneHealthCommission_Annct_1%2025%2012.%20B%20docx.pdf

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Going viral

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 17 January 2012

“We've been lucky. The avian influenza (H5N1) virus that first emerged in Hong Kong in 1997 -- which killed six and caused 18 serious illnesses -- has not acquired the ability to spread easily from person to person. Virtually all of the reported cases have involved contact with infected birds or bird products. Thus the outbreak required the depopulation of all the chicken farms and poultry markets in the region -- no small project -- in order to stop the outbreak from spreading. ...”

Please read entire column at http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/going-viral

Visionary One Health Training Programs Planned for University of Florida (USA)

Please see video at http://youtu.be/InYc6qB-pKk

“While many organizations call for a cross-disciplinary One Health approach, there are no US degree programs that teach students to lead these complex collaborations.  Comprised of sixteen different health science, engineering, and agriculture colleges, the University of Florida is uniquely positioned with experts in a variety of fields. To address this need and utilize our distinctive capabilities, the Department of Environmental and Global Health is developing several new training programs.  We are seeking approval to establish three new training programs for Fall 2012:

·                                 Master’s of Health Sciences, Environmental Health emphasis (40 credit hours, approval pending)

·                                 PhD in Public Health, One Health emphasis (90 credit hours, approval pending)”

http://egh.phhp.ufl.edu/academic-programs/

Please read entire article by clicking on this link http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/116937/icode/ or the HTM View.

FAO Permission to post granted December 19, 2011.

National Link Coalition Listed as “One Health” Resource

“Working together to stop violence against people and animals” is relevant to the One Health issue.  Please see page 6 in the attached PDF.

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Improving Food Safety Through One Health

December 13, 2011 - December 14, 2011 (8:30 AM Eastern)

Keck Center (100) • 500 Fifth St. NW, Washington, DC 20001

Please see: http://www.iom.edu/Activities/PublicHealth/MicrobialThreats/2011-DEC-13.aspx.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Using microbes to fight microbes

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 3 January 2012

“There are more microorganisms in and on our bodies than human cells. In fact, scientists estimate that microorganisms outnumber human cells by 10 to 1. These microbes cover our skin, nose, mouth, and gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts. Called the "human microbiome," scientists are investigating the relationship between these microbes and disease. ... “

Please read more: http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/using-microbes-to-fight-microbes

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA) online – NEWS -January 2012

“Spreading the one-health concept”

“A movement is promoting the one-health concept—that human, animal, and ecosystem health intertwine to make "one health"—and an accompanying one-health approach involving collaboration among the health professions and relevant associated disciplines to improve health locally and globally. Organizations backing the one-health approach range from the One Health Commission and the One Health Initiative website to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the National League of Cities.”

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/jan12/120115a.aps

Updated unified nomenclature system for the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza viruses

World Health Organization (WHO) - October 2011

 “In recent years, a variety of different provisional names have been used to refer to emerging lineages of the currently circulating highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 viruses. As a result, discussion, comparison, and analysis of the various lineages proved difficult. ... “

See more: http://www.who.int/influenza/gisrs_laboratory/h5n1_nomenclature/en/index.html

Massey News

World Bank funds health project into second phase

“The World Bank has granted Massey University $5m in funding to extend its education programme strengthening Asian public health and veterinary capacity to combat zoonotic diseases. ...”

Please read more at http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=09B36896-0BE9-56D4-8151-7BE22D89B2E2

Provided by:

James Gardiner
Communications Director 
External Relations
Massey University
Private Bag 11-222
Palmerston North, New Zealand
 +64-6-350-5255  cell: +64-21-275-3394
http://news.massey.ac.nz/

One Health importance...

New Facility to Advance Public Health, Zoonoses Research - December 14, 2011 - News Release

“The University of Guelph today opened a new research facility to help prevent and control emerging animal-related diseases that threaten public health. ...”

Please read complete release:  http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2011/12/new_facility_to.html or click on HTM view.

 Huffington Post

Exotic Pets' Human Health Risk: Could The Global Pet Trade Import The Next Pandemic?

By Lynne Peeples  lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com

Part of a series investigating the complex links between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop A One Health issue...

Please see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/17/exotic-pets-wildlife-trade-infectious-disease_n_1155624.html?1324395189

One Health USA oriented veterinary medical journal...

Clinician’s Brief Journal – December 2011 Volume 9 Number 12

Contains CAPSULES Section (http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/73ec98a9#/73ec98a9/7) Page 4—The current literature in brief, featuring One Health Initiative

Please see http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/73ec98a9#/73ec98a9/42 Page 39 and http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/73ec98a9#/73ec98a9/49 Page 46

Courtesy of: Editor, Indu Mani, DVM, DSc.

The official journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), Clinician’s Brief (http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal/), a peer reviewed journal, has established a unique, visionary and seminal One Health policy...the journal is primarily designed to provide pertinent veterinary medical scientific articles for busy small animal medicine/surgery practitioners. 

The NAVC http://www.navc.com/ conducts a prominent and outstanding yearly meeting in Orlando, Florida (USA).  It is one of the largest veterinary medical continuing education events in the world.  A focus is maintained “on a single goal—providing high quality, practical information to every member of the veterinary [medical] professional team.”  The 2012 Conference is scheduled for January 14-18, 2012.  A One Health program is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. through 4:50 p.m. on Wednesday, January 18, 2011.

Americans Worried About Global Pandemics, Yet Lack Knowledge Of Their Likely Source, Survey Shows

By Lynne Peeples lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com  The Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/14/global-pandemic-animals_n_1148284.html

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Emerging Infectious Disease Journal

Volume 17, Number 12—December 2011

Photo Quiz- Calvin W. Schwabe, DVM, MPH, DSc. [Coined “One Medicine” term*]

Myron G. Schultz, DVM, MD, DCMT, FACP and Peter M. Schantz, VMD, PhD

Author affiliations: Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (M.G. Schultz)

Schultz MG, Schantz P. Calvin W. Schwab [photo quiz]. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2011 Dec [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1712.110484

Please see http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/12/11-0484_article.htm and/or attached PDF provided by Dr. Schultz.

*http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Who%20coined%20the%20term%20One%20Medicine%20by%20B%20%20Kaplan%20and%20C%20%20Scott%20May19%202011-CS.pdf

Historic One Health Resolution (USA)...

National League of Cities · Adopted at the 2011 Congress of Cities · November 12, 2011 (USA)

 2012 Energy, Environment and Natural Resources  Pg.68 & 69

NLC RESOLUTION #2012-17 - One Health Initiative - [Please see http://alturl.com/tz5gx and http://alturl.com/zh45j]

WHEREAS, cities depend on the health and vitality of their inhabitants, reliable access to sufficient quantities of wholesome food and clean water, clean air, and the ecosystem services that support them; and

WHEREAS, government plays an important role in coordinating efforts to preserve and maintain those resources; and

WHEREAS, policymakers are challenged to make sense of complex inter-relationships among human health, animal health, and ecological health, and pressed to conform with decision-making models that often isolate those critical connections and shorten planning horizons; and

WHEREAS, cities‘ economic, social, and environmental well-being—the ¨Dtriple bottom line¡¬ whereon environmental stewardship, economic prosperity, and social responsibility intersect—depends on our ability to integrate diverse interests through unified long-range planning, and to engage and inform policymakers and practitioners about critical interdependent needs; and

WHEREAS, the One Health Initiative4 is the collaborative objective of multiple disciplines, including the American Medical Association (AMA), U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), their international counterparts, and environmental organizations, working locally, nationally, and globally to disseminate information about human health, animal health, and environmental health; and

4 www.onehealthinitiative.com    

WHEREAS, leaders in local government are ideally suited as partners in that responsibility; and

WHEREAS, successful adoption and implementation of the One Health Initiative will be predicated on the leadership, communication skills, and cooperation of its advocates; and

WHEREAS, One Health topics that pertain to local government include the costs and organizational structure of public health services; pandemic preparedness; health education; adaptation to climate change; animal control and vaccination requirements; transportation and land use planning affecting public wellness; water quality protection; waste management; energy choices; food safety and regional food systems; ecological protection, restoration, and monitoring; homeland security and bioterrorism; measures of economic trends and workforce preparedness relative to sustainable practices; health, healthcare costs, and absenteeism of personnel; and

WHEREAS, facilitating communication among increasingly specialized experts will improve health outcomes for communities through increased awareness of connections between climate variability, food production, and infectious diseases; cross-species contagion (zoonoses), and human and animal health conditions; and demands on municipal infrastructure and services; and

WHEREAS, climate change will affect energy costs, the frequency and severity of floods, fires, wind events, heat waves, and other extreme weather conditions; coastal development and building standards; incidence vector-borne illnesses; crop production; habitat loss; endangerment and extinction of species; and human illness; and

WHEREAS, cities can only thrive if they remain attractive and livable, with sufficient quantities of clean water, clean air, efficient, affordable buildings, healthful food choices, healthy food animals, and leaders who are committed to cooperative long-range planning for a sustainable future.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National League of Cities supports integrated decision-making in the context of the One Health Initiative, and calls on the federal government to adopt legislation and practices that address human health, animal health, and ecological health in an integrated fashion and support local efforts to advance sustainability goals.

Toxoplasma gondii infection in humans in China

Peng Zhou, Zhaoguo Chen, Hai-Long Li, Haihong Zheng, Shenyi He, Rui-Qing Lin and Xing-Quan Zhu

Open Access: Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:165 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-4-165 Published: 24 August 2011

 “Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic infection of humans and animals, caused by the opportunistic protozoan Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite belonging to the phylum Apicomplexa. Infection in pregnant women may lead to abortion, stillbirth or other serious consequences in newborns. Infection in immunocompromised patients can be fatal if not treated. On average, one third of people are chronically infected worldwide. Although very limited information from China has been published in the English journals, T. gondii infection is actually a significant human health problem in China. In the present article, we reviewed the clinical features, transmission, prevalence of T. gondii infection in humans in China, and summarized genetic characterizations of reported T. gondii isolates. Educating the public about the risks associated with unhealthy food and life style habits, tracking serological examinations to special populations, and measures to strengthen food and occupational safety are discussed.”

Following the genes: a framework for animal modeling of psychiatric disorders

Kevin J Mitchell, Z Josh Huang, Bita Moghaddam, Akira Sawa

BMC Biology 2011, 9:76 (11 November 2011)

Abstract

The number of individual cases of psychiatric disorders that can be ascribed to identified, rare, single mutations is increasing with great rapidity. Such mutations can be recapitulated in mice to generate animal models with direct etiological validity. Defining the underlying pathogenic mechanisms will require an experimental and theoretical framework to make the links from mutation to altered behavior in an animal or psychopathology in a human. Here, we discuss key elements of such a framework, including cell type-based phenotyping, developmental trajectories, linking circuit properties at micro and macro scales and definition of neurobiological phenotypes that are directly translatable to humans.

Please see more: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7007/9/76

One Health Newsletter –

Fall Issue Published today –

November 21, 2011

Please See attached PDF and link  http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html

 Also see http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/newsletter.php

Book review    
Review of "Non-native and invasive ticks - Threats to human and animal health in the United States" by Michael J. Burridge
Sparagano OA
Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:78 (15 May 2011)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-4-78.pdf

A One Health Comparative Medicine Research Concern...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal - Volume 17, Number 11—November 2011

Hepatitis E Virus in Rabbits, Virginia, USA

“...The fact that rabbit HEV appears to be closely related to genotype 3 HEV raises a potential concern for zoonotic infection because genotype 3 HEV from other animal species is known to infect humans (1,2). Therefore, cross-species infection and zoonotic risk for infection with rabbit HEV should be evaluated. ...”

Please Read complete article: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/17/11/11-0428_article.htm

Cossaboom CM, Córdoba L, Dryman BA, Meng X-J. Hepatitis E virus in rabbits, Virginia, USA. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2011 Nov [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1711.110428

One Health Publications

Courtesy of:  *Clinician's Brief Journal – November 2011 Issue:

·        “Public Health Significance of Toxoplasma” - See attached PDF.

·        Ask the expert...“Checklists: An Answer to Avoiding Mistakes” – See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Ask%20the%20Expert_Checklists.pdf

See full November issue: http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal

*Clinician’s Brief, the official Journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), adopted support and advocacy of the One Health concept in its October 2011 issue.  The NAVC http://www.navc.com/ conducts a prominent and outstanding yearly meeting in Orlando, Florida (USA).  It is one of the largest veterinary medical continuing education events in the world.  A focus is maintained “on a single goal—providing high quality, practical information to every member of the veterinary [medical] professional team.”  The 2012 Conference is scheduled for January 14-18, 2012.

One Health Initiative Website NEWS Statistics

“One Health is the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally to attain optimal health for people, animals, plants and our environment.”

Current One Health Supporters with addresses

Notice—November 8, 2011:

Please send any One Health News, Publications and Upcoming Events items to kkm@onehealthinitiative.com c/o Contents Manager.

We are happy to promote One Health by posting appropriate items submitted!

Thank you for your assistance...

Your One Health Initiative team

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Read complete article at http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/79562/icode/

Second FAO-OIE-WHO Joint Scientific Consultation on Influenza and Other Emerging Zoonotic Diseases at the Human-Animal Interface

Verona, Italy, in April 2010

Additional information is available on the agency websites:

FAO: http://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/conferences/verona_2010.html  

OIE: http://www.oie.int/for-the-media/onehealth/oie-involvement/verona/

WHO: http://www.who.int/influenza/human_animal_interface/en/  

Food Safety and One Health Issues Discussed

By Reporter Lynne Peeples – The Huffington Post

lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com

The second in a series investigating the complex linkages between human, animal and environmental health: The Infection Loop.

Please see: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/produce-contamination-illness-listeria-infection-loop_n_1033152.html or click on PDF attachment.

One health national programme across species on zoonoses: a call to the developing world

Asokan G. V., Dr1*, Vanitha Asokan, Dr2 and Prathap Tharyan, Dr3

1College of Health Sciences, Kingdom of Bahrain; 2American Mission Hospital, Kingdom of Bahrain; 3South

Asian Cochrane Network & Centre, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Citation: Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2011, 1: 8293 - DOI: 10.3402/iee.v1i0.8293 - Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2011.#2011 Asokan. G. V. et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any

medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Note: The One Health Initiative team considers Infection Ecology and Epidemiology to be a significant One Health oriented international journal.  In addition the journal’s responsible editor: Björn Olsen, MD, a physician, is a member of the One Health Initiative website’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

Please see Important publication with free access...of significant One Health [interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary] interest:

The Infectious Disease Committee of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians (AAZV) Publishes Infectious Diseases of Concern to Captive and Free-ranging Wildlife in North America

Napier JE, Gamble KC (editors):  Infectious diseases of concern to captive and free-ranging animals in North America

1st edition. Yulee, Florida: Infectious Disease Committee, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, 2011. 374 pp.

The publication is available online (at: http://www.aazv.org/ via http://www.aazv.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=754).

Information provided October 23, 2011 by co-editor, Dr. Gamble:

Kathryn C. Gamble DVM, MS, Dipl ACZM

Dr. Lester E. Fisher Director of Veterinary Medicine

Chair, Infectious Disease Committee, American Association of Zoo Veterinarians

Lincoln Park Zoo

2001 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL 60614

Using “Black Death” genetic tools for investigating cattle diseases?

Geni Wren, Bovine Veterinarian Magazine (USA)  |   Updated: October 18, 2011

“An international team - led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany - has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history, according to a press release from McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. (Read the full press release here. ) ...”

Please read more: http://www.cattlenetwork.com/cattle-news/latest/Using-Black-Death-genetic-tools-for-investigating-cattle-diseases-132014143.html or click on attachment.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration = Positive One Health impact...

Strategic Plan for Regulatory Science

See more:  http://www.fda.gov/ScienceResearch/SpecialTopics/RegulatoryScience/ucm267719.htm

Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) -  http://www.ceezad.org/

Review: Essay on History of One Medicine (One Health) “Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?”  contained within “The Oxford Handbook of History of Medicine”

Please see Publications:  http://www.ceezad.org/resources/publication.html via Attachment

By Robert E. Kahn, PhD

Educational Consultant

Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD)

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas (USA)

GRF One Health Summit 2012

One Health - One Planet - One Future

Risks and Opportunities

International Conference 19-23 February 2012, Davos, Switzerland  

3rd Announcement - Programme & Exhibition

Please see attachment and http://www.grforum.org/pages_new.php/One-Health/1013/1/938/

A One Health Milestone...

U. S. Veterinary Journal Establishes Visionary One Health Policy and One Health Section

The official journal of the North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC), Clinician’s Brief http://www.cliniciansbrief.com/journal/october-2011: see View this Issue, a peer reviewed journal, has established a unique, visionary and seminal One Health policy...the journal is primarily designed to provide pertinent veterinary medical scientific articles for busy small animal medicine/surgery practitioners. 

Clinician’s Brief has officially adopted support and advocacy of the One Health concept in its October 2011 issue.  In addition, a special One Health section will be published in each subsequent issue and posted on the One Health Initiative website.  The One Health section is entitled CAPSULES—Current literature in brief, featuring One Health Initiative Veterinary, Medical, Scientific [Highlights] —see page 39 in the current issue http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/54b87b67#/54b87b67/41.

The One Health Initiative team is delighted to have formed a collaborative liaison with NAVC’s Clinician’s Brief via its editor Indu Mani, DVM, DSc.  Please see attachments showing the  Front cover of the October 2011 Volume 9 Number 10 inaugural One Health issue: click on pdf view or http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/cover%202.pdf; the Contents Section: click on http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/contents%204.pdf; and Dr. Mani’s initial One Health Initiative Editorial commentary: click on http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/indu%204.pdf. 

It should be noted that Dr. Mani, a veterinarian and avid One Health advocate, practices small animal veterinary medicine as well as being the editor of Clinician’s Brief.  She is also well versed in public health issues having received her Doctor of Science degree (DSc) from Harvard University’s School of Public Health in Boston, MA (USA).

The NAVC http://www.navc.com/ conducts a prominent and outstanding yearly meeting in Orlando, Florida (USA).  It is one of the largest veterinary medical continuing education events in the world.  A focus is maintained “on a single goal—providing high quality, practical information to every member of the veterinary [medical] professional team.”  The 2012 Conference is scheduled for January 14-18, 2012.

Health Council of the Netherlands Publish Advice on Antibiotic Use in Livestock Production and the Consequences for Human Public Health

August 31, 2011: http://www.gezondheidsraad.nl/en/publications/antibiotics-food-animal-production-and-resistant-bacteria-humans

Provided to One Health Initiative website October 11, 2011 by:

Dr. M.F.M. Langelaar

Scientific staff member

National Health Council of the Netherlands

Parnassusplein 5

Postbus 16052

2500BB Den Haag

Room C06 18

T 070-3406693

E mfm.langelaar@gr.nl

World Food Prize laureate to kick off new ISU One Health lecture series – October 12, 2011

 “AMES, Iowa (USA)- The Iowa State University-based international organization One Health Commission will sponsor a lecture with ISU by 2010 World Food Prize Laureate David Beckmann at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Des Moines Marriott, Salon D, at 700 Grand Ave.

His presentation, "One Health: World Health Through Collaboration," is scheduled in conjunction with this year's World Food Prize events and is free and open to the public. ...”

Please read more:  http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2011/sep/onehealthlecture or click on HTM View.

Contacts:

Roger Mahr, One Health Commission, 515-294-0572, rkmahr@onehealthcommission.org  

Tracy Raef, College of Veterinary Medicine, 515-294-4602, traef@iastate.edu  

Dan Kuester, News Service, 515-294-0704, kuester@iastate.edu

See important September 30, 2011 Huffington Post column (USA) that includes One Health implications: 

‘Contagion’ Connections: How Links Among Humans, Animals And The Environment May Be Spawning A New Class Of Infectious Diseases

By Lynne Peeples lynne.peeples@huffingtonpost.com

Please SEE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/30/contagion-infectious-disease-animals-environment-health_n_987455.html?1317396819

Contagion Movie was One Health Deficient...making it Unrealistic!

What Contagion missed

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 29 September 2011

“It's not often that Hollywood ventures into the realm of epidemics and public health, and when it does, the outcome is usually laughably out of touch with reality -- like Outbreak, the 1995 movie about a deadly Ebola-like virus that infected a city. ...”

Please read the entire review in Dr. Kahn’s Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists column:

http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/what-contagion-missed

Outstanding One Health-One Medicine Program at University of Missouri (USA)

To learn more, visit http://www.missouri.edu/mizzou-advantage/  or contact Facilitator Carolyn J. Henry, DVM, MS at henryc@missouri.edu

Dr. Henry is a veterinarian who concomitantly serves as Professor of Oncology at MU.  She also conducts biomedical cancer research that is of significant value to humans and animals.  

http://facultycouncil.missouri.edu/meetings/documents/One-Health-one-page-1B9A50.pdf

One Health Newsletter Summer Issue Published today - September 26, 2011

A product of the Florida Department of Health, Environmental Health Division (USA)

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/SummerOHNL2011-Combined.pdf

One Health Principles Needed for Ageing Research in Humans and Animals

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2011/47_3/47_3.htm

“In these papers, I examine controversy over the nature of ageing.  Central ideas include why post-reproductive life span is relatively common among animals, and implications for evaluating.

Contentious debate revolves around whether ageing is a combined effect of life’s events on residuals of reproductive robustness, or whether ageing could be a purposeful product of natural selection. 

In my view, complexities of ageing might be understood by simultaneously considering the cell, the organism, and the population.  The idea that events of post-reproductive life represent considerable investment of precious energy challenges some accepted precepts.   I suggest that ageing and its investments may have evolved at least partly as a means of niche preservation for populations and species at multiple levels of life. 

It is clear that advancing knowledge and resolving questions and problems relative to ageing requires a One Health approach for human and animal species.  The necessary knowledge evolution will occur only by greatly increasing the level of interdisciplinary research, and especially direct collaborations between research scientists and health care providers across disciplines.”

Dennis F. Lawler, DVM

Note: Dr. Lawler is a retired veterinarian currently residing in O'Fallon, Illinois (USA). He is a consultant in anatomic and clinical pathology for broad-scope genetics studies of the mammalian body plan, using the Portuguese Water Dog canine model, Project Georgie, the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA). 

Permission for the One Health Initiative website to post access to these three articles was graciously granted on September 22, 2011 by Gill Dilmitis, Associate Editor, gsdilmitis@wanadoo.fr, Veterinaria Italiana Journal.

Poster presented in the 1st International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface(ICOPHAI), September 15-17, 2011: UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Provided to One Health Initiative website September 23, 2011 by:

Professor Nitish C Debnath, DVM, MSc (TVM), PhD
National Consultant, Outbreak Response and Laboratory Expert
Avian Influenza Technical Unit
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Pshusampad Bhaban, Farmgate, Dhaka

Bangladesh

Global Programs and Initiatives [One Health]

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

http://www.globalhealth.gov/global-programs-and-initiatives/one-health/

National study on the prioritization of zoonotic diseases in the United States

September 19, 2011—The following message is being circulated on behalf of the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses (CPHAZ) Research Team at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, ON, Canada by the One Health Initiative Team. We encourage you to consider participation and strongly support the efforts of CPHAZ:

Please see attached PDF for more information...

Important New - September 2011

Catalog of One Health Activities and Programs (USA)

Provided by:

Will Hueston, DVM, PhD

Executive Director, Global Initiative for Food Systems Leadership

Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine and

     Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health

University of Minnesota

St. Paul, MN (USA)

 Tel:  612-625-5900

Fax: 612-624-4906

 Email:  huest001@umn.edu

Website:  www.foodsystemsleadership.org

Environmental levels of the antiviral Oseltamivir induce development of resistance mutation H274Y in influenza A/H1N1 virus in mallards

Josef D. Järhult 1, Shaman Muradrasoli 2, John Wahlgren 3, Hanna Söderström 4, Goran Orozovic 5, Gunnar Gunnarsson 5,6, Caroline Bröjer 7,8, Neus Latorre-Margalef5, Jerker Fick 4, Roman Grabic 4,9, Johan Lennerstrand 10, Jonas Waldenström 5, Åke Lundkvist 3, Björn Olsen 1,5

PLoS ONE, Monday 12 September 2011 – OPEN ACCESS

Abstract

“Oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) is the most widely used drug against influenza infections and is extensively stockpiled worldwide as part of pandemic preparedness plans. However, resistance is a growing problem and in 2008–2009, seasonal human influenza A/H1N1 virus strains in most parts of the world carried the mutation H274Y in the neuraminidase gene which causes resistance to the drug. The active metabolite of oseltamivir, oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), is poorly degraded in sewage treatment plants and surface water and has been detected in aquatic environments where the natural influenza reservoir, dabbling ducks, can be exposed to the substance. … “

Please read more http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024742 or click on attachment.

FDA unveils foodborne illness outbreak response network

 “Sep 14, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it has established a new streamlined system to respond more efficiently and quickly to human and animal foodborne illness outbreaks.”  Please Read CIDRAP article...   

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/sep1411network-br.html

Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) – University of Florida (USA) Foodsafety

Thursday, April 28, 2011  

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (USA) – Researchers at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute have identified the Top 10 riskiest combinations of foods and disease-causing microorganisms, providing an important tool for food safety officials charged with protecting consumers from these costly and potentially life-threatening bugs.

Please see http://www.epi.ufl.edu/?q=RankingTheRisks or click on attachment

Important Essay on the History of One Medicine published in the United Kingdom (soon to be published in the USA): Contained within "The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine"

Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?

            “University librarians may well be interested in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, already available in the United Kingdom and to be published in the United States on November 1st, 2011. Although expensive at $150, this innovative 672 page survey edited by Mark Jackson, contains an important essay by Robert G. W. Kirk and Michael Worboys, “Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?” which proposes “re-conceiving medicine as a set of knowledge-practices grounded in interspecies interactions.” In brief, the authors (a Wellcome Research Fellow and the Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester) contend that the history of medicine “should become the history of one medicine” because of “the complex interactions between species that have been present throughout history”. ...”

Please read more by clicking on attached PDF

Book Review provided to One Health Initiative Website September 6, 2011 by:

Robert E. Kahn, PhD

Educational Consultant

Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD)

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas   

Progress towards the eradication of Tsetse from the Loos islands, Guinea

Moise S Kagbadouno¹ , Mamadou Camara¹ , Jérémy Bouyer² , Fabrice Courtin³ , Mory F Onikoyamou ⁴ , Chris J Schofield⁵ and Philippe Solano³

¹  Programme National de Lutte contre la THA, Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Guinée

²  Cirad, UMR CIRAD-INRA CMAEE, ISRA-LNERV, Service de Parasitologie, Dakar-Hann, Sénégal

³  IRD, UMR IRD-CIRAD 177, CIRDES Bobo-Dioulasso BP 454, Burkina Faso

⁴  Direction de la Santé animale, Ministère de l'élevage, Conakry, Guinée

⁵  LSHTM (ITD), London WC1E7HT, UK

author email corresponding author email

Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:18doi:10.1186/1756-3305-4-18 – Published February 10, 2011 – Open Access

Background

The tsetse fly Glossina palpalis gambiensis is the main vector of sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis - HAT) in West Africa, in particular in littoral Guinea where this disease is currently very active. The Loos islands constitute a small archipelago some 5 km from mainland Guinea, where G. p. gambiensis is well known as a nuisance and potential disease vector by inhabitants of the three main islands, Fotoba, Room, and Kassa. The National Control Program against HAT of Guinea has decided to eradicate tsetse in Loos islands in order to sustainably protect humans and economic activities. After baseline data collection, tsetse control began on the islands in 2006. On each of the three islands a specific combination of control methods was implemented according to the entomological situation found.

Results

Starting densities before control operations were 10, 3 and 1 tsetse/trap/day in Kassa, Room and Fotoba respectively, but by July 2010, tsetse were no longer caught in any of the sentinel traps used for monitoring. The reduction rate was faster where several control methods were implemented as a combination (impregnated traps and targets ITT, selective groundspraying, epicutaneous insecticide treatment of pigs, and impregnated fences around pig pens), whereas it was slower when ITT were used as the only control method.

Conclusions

This 100% suppression is a promising step in the eradication process, but G. p. gambiensis may still occur at very low, undetectable, densities on the archipelago. Next step will consist in assessing a 0.05 probability of tsetse absence to ascertain a provisional eradication status. Throughout these operations, a key factor has been the involvement of local teams and local communities without whom such results would be impossible to obtain. Work will continue thanks to the partners involved until total eradication of the tsetse on Loos islands can be declared.

Please read more: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/4/1/18

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations News Release

Bird Flu rears its head again

Please read more: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/87196/icode/ or see attachment

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How a deadly E. coli outbreak revealed Germany’s dysfunctional public health system

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 24 August 2011

“The plot just kept getting thicker. First, the culprit was cucumbers and tomatoes from Spain. Then it was bean sprouts from northern Germany. Then it wasn't. Then it was bean sprouts from northern Germany again -- this time, an organic farm. Finally, the perpetrator appeared to be imported fenugreek seeds from Egypt. ...”

Please read more: http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/how-deadly-e-coli-outbreak-revealed-germany%E2%80%99s-dysfunctional-publ or see attachment.

Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences

One Health—One Medicine: unifying human and animal medicine within an evolutionary paradigm

Article first published online: 8 AUG 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06138.x © 2011 New York Academy of Sciences.

By Russell W. Currier, DVM, MPH and James H. Steele, DVM, MPH^,

Readers have free complimentary full text access to this article via http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06138.x/full or see attachment.

It shall be available through February 2012.

Permission graciously granted on August 23, 2011 by:

Selene Carey

Senior Editor, Journals

John Wiley & Sons

111 River Street

Mail Stop 8-01

Hoboken, NJ 07030

Note: The One Health Initiative team expresses gratitude to John Wiley & Sons’ generous and extraordinary gesture of making special provisions for us to post this article free of charge to all who access and view the One Health Initiative website through February 2012 and this link.  We were advised by Senior Editor Selene Carey that they recognize and appreciate our pro bono educational mission of helping to promote One Health.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) MMWR

June 10, 2011 / 60(22);749-755

On June 7, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

Background: In the United States, contaminated food causes approximately 1,000 reported disease outbreaks and an estimated 48 million illnesses, 128,000 hospitalizations, and 3,000 deaths annually. This report summarizes 2010 surveillance data and describes trends since 1996. ...

See http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6022a5.htm?s_cid=mm6022a5_w

Operationalizing “One Health”: A Policy Perspective—Taking Stock and Shaping an Implementation Roadmap

Meeting Overview – May 4 -6, 2010 Stone Mountain, Georgia (USA)

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases

Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology

Please see attachment: http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/Media_Center/docs/pdf/meeting-overview.pdf

One Health Meeting under the title "Putting One Health to Work" organized by FAO Regional Office, Bangkok

Please see attached One Health Power Point Slide presentation “Operationalizing One Health: The Bangladesh Experience”

 Provided by:

Professor Nitish C Debnath, DVM, MSc (TVM), PhD
National Consultant, Outbreak Response and Laboratory Expert
Avian Influenza Technical Unit
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Pshusampad Bhaban, Farmgate, Dhaka

EID Journal Home > Volume 17, Number 5–May 2011

Volume 17, Number 5–May 2011

Vector-borne Infections

Ronald Rosenberg and C. Ben Beard
Author affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Rosenberg R, Beard CB. Vector-borne infections. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2011 May [date cited]. http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/17/5/769.htm

Abstract
Infections with vector-borne pathogens are a major source of emerging diseases. The ability of vectors to bridge spatial and ecologic gaps between animals and humans increases opportunities for emergence. Small adaptations of a pathogen to a vector can have profound effects on the rate of transmission to humans.

Respiratory Virus Report – Summer 2011: Emerging “One Health” Principles

International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (ISIRV) http://www.isirv.org/

“...Cross training, exchange programs and fellowships in “One Health” were noted as possible ideas to pursue.   Meeting attendees agreed to assume responsibility for outreach and educational endeavours, within the context of their own network at relevant national and international meetings, to otain buy in for the “One Flu/One Health” concept...”  --page four (4).

Please see attachment

Call for Applications for the Master of Science in ‘One Health’ Analytical Epidemiology at the University of Zambia, Zambia

July 29, 2011
 

http://scholarship-positions.com/call-for-applications-for-the-master-of-science-in-one-health-analytical-epidemiology-at-the-university-of-zambia-zambia/2011/07/29/

Chatham House Meeting Summary

Consideration of an International Society for One Health (ISOH)

Prepared by Professor Martyn Jeggo and Professor John Mackenzie

July 2011 [meeting conducted in London, England]

http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Research/Global%20Health/0611summary.pdf

“The mission of Chatham House is to be a world-leading source of independent analysis, informed debate and influential ideas on how to build a prosperous and secure world for all. Chatham House was founded in 1920 and is based in St James's Square, London.”

Florida Medical Association (USA) Adopts One Health Resolution

“The Florida Medical Association (FMA) http://www.flmedical.org/HomePage.aspx adopted a resolution on Sunday July 31, 2011 in support of One Health”, according to John J. Lanza, MD, PhD, MPH, FAAP of the Florida Department of Health.  Dr. Lanza is the Director of the Escambia County Health Department www.EscambiaHealth.com, Pensacola, Florida (USA).

Please see attached Complete One Health resolution entitled Collaboration between Human Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and the Environmental Sciences (One Health).

                *  *  *  *

“Whereas, The challenges of the 21^st Century demand that these professions work together; and therefore be it

RESOLVED, That our Florida Medical Association support the “One Health” initiative designed to promote collaboration among the health professions by improving the lives of all species through the integration of human medicine, veterinary medicine, and the environmental sciences; and be it further

RESOLVED, That our FMA engage in a dialogue with the Florida Veterinary Medical Association and the Florida Public Health Association to determine and implement strategies for enhancing collaboration among the human medical, veterinary medical, and environmental sciences professions in medical education, clinical care, public health, and biomedical research.”

Review    
Tick-borne encephalitis virus in dogs - is this an issue?
Pfeffer M, Dobler G
Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:59 (13 April 2011)
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [PubMed]

Making Sense of One Health

Cooperating at the Human-Animal-Ecosystem Health Interface April 2011

By Aline Leboeuf, PhD

Download the document or see attachment

Or click on link below:
http://www.ifri.org/?page=contribution-detail&id=6553&id_provenance=88&provenance_context_id=13⟨=uk

Permission to post on One Health Initiative website granted July 29, 2011 by Dr. Loboeuf.

NOTE: The French Institute of International Relations (IFRI): A leading European Think Tank.

“In 2010, for the fourth consecutive year, Ifri was the only French research institute ranked among the 50 most influential think tanks in the world outside of the United States, placing 3^rd in Europe according to the University of Pennsylvania's Global Go-To Think Tanks, a ranking that covers 6,480 institutes in 169 countries.”

One Health: A 21^st Century “Back to the Future”

A Matter of Opinion / North American Veterinary Conference (NAVC) Clinician’s Brief / July 2011

By Donald F. Smith, DVM, Diplomate ACVS, Cornell University (USA)

Permission to post on One Health Initiative website granted by:

Indu Mani, DVM, DSc

Editor, Clinician’s Brief

Note: Drs. Don Smith and Indu Mani are valued One Health supporters and advocates.

Major “One Health” Oriented Breakthrough for Veterinary Medical Education in the USA

Washington, DC July 17, 2011: “Looking to the Future, American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) Board of Directors Approves North American Veterinary Medical Education Consortium (NAVMEC) Report –“Roadmap for Veterinary Medical Education in the 21^st Century: Responsive, Collaborative, Flexible”

Please see complete press release on attached PDF.

Provided by:

James G. Fox, DVM, MS

Professor and Director

Division of Comparative Medicine

Professor Department of Biological Engineering

MIT-DCM Building 16, Room 825

77 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA  02139

Dr. Fox is also a member of the One Health Initiative’s Honorary Advisory Board. http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

Updated One Health Article Appears in International Innovation Magazine: Research Media Ltd. - "Ground Breaking" Health Care: Issue 10

http://www.research-europe.com/

The One Health Initiative team of Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Thomas P. Monath, MD, and Jack Woodall, PhD were interviewed about the international status of One Health in the International Innovation magazine published June 2011.

Please see accompanying PDF and see link below ...

http://www.research-europe.com/index.php/2011/08/one-health-initiative/

Note: The entire magazine and complete One Health article (Pages 52 - 54) may also be viewed via the following link:

 http://www.research-europe.com/magazine/HEALTHCARE2/10/pageflip.html

The One Health concept was elucidated in an initial Question and Answer to Dr. Laura Kahn in the June 2010 issue of the magazine.  Since then, Dr. Kahn’s interview has been widely distributed online and via numerous hard copies of the magazine publication.

http://www.research-europe.com/index.php/2010/07/dr-laura-kahn-on-the-one-health-initiative/ 

 Please register on the Research Media website to gain full access to the entire publication, this is free and quick with your registration being approved within 24 hours.

 International Innovation is the leading global dissemination resource for the wider scientific, technology and research communities. Produced under four titles, each title serves a key scientific area that is of particular relevance in today’s global environment.”

Click the link below to complete the online form to subscribe to the printed magazine.
Research Media Subscription Form or http://www.research-europe.com/subscribe.php

A One Health approach addresses wildlife, ecosystem and human health issues

United Nations Environment Programme

UN organizations launch Scientific Task Force on Wildllife Diseases

See: http://www.cms.int/news/PRESS/nwPR2011/07_jul/wildlife_ecosystem_human_health.pdf

One Health in ACTION!

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) study explains why men are at higher risk for stomach cancer than women

Cancer research studies by MIT researchers demonstrated how the hormone estrogen protects women from gastric (stomach) inflammation that can lead to cancer.  See MIT News item of July 13, 2011 http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/gastric-cancer-0713.html. ...

Please see attachment

The need for one health degree programs

by Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP (Published: 14 July 2011)

Citation: Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2011, 1: 7919 - DOI: 10.3402/iee.v1i0.7919

One Health

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Health

Nigerian Public Health Veterinarians and Physicians Adopting Aggressive Visionary Model Approach to One Health

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ONE HEALTH NIGERIA E-GROUP

“OneHealthNigeria@googlegroups.com (OHN) is a private initiative created to actively promote the One Health Initiative Concept (http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/index.php).  As the list creator, I am a Nigerian Veterinary Epidemiologist [Tayo Babalobi, DVM, MPVM, PhD, MCVSN] and a pioneer supporter of the One Health Initiative in Nigeria. In 2008, [Dr. Babalobi] sponsored a proposal for the adoption of the One Health Initiative by the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association NVMA at her 45^th Annual Congress in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. The proposal was adopted on presentation on 22^nd October 2008 (this was reported in one of the One Health Initiative publications). A second proposal seeking the initiation of partnership between the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) was stepped down). …”

For more, please see attachment.

Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses (ICONZ) - Africa

Welcome to ICONZ - Africa. This project aims at Improving Human Health and Animal Production in developing countries through Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses in animals, based on Scientific Innovation and Public Engagement.  ... For More see http://www.iconzafrica.com/ and attached Second Edition ICONZ Magazine Newsletter.

Information and permissions to post provided by:

Professor Sue Welburn

Director, Edinburgh Global Health Academy 

& Professor of Medical and Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology

Division of Pathway Medicine & Centre for Infectious Diseases
School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine
The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB

Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses (ICONZ) - Africa

Welcome to ICONZ - Africa. This project aims at Improving Human Health and Animal Production in developing countries through Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses in animals, based on Scientific Innovation and Public Engagement.  ... For More see http://www.iconzafrica.com/ and attached First Edition ICONZ Magazine Newsletter.

Information and permissions to post provided by:

Professor Sue Welburn

Director, Edinburgh Global Health Academy 

& Professor of Medical and Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology

Division of Pathway Medicine & Centre for Infectious Diseases
School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine
The University of Edinburgh, Chancellor's Building, 49 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, EH16 4SB

“One Health or ...  some health?”

Veterinaria Italiana Journal - Issue online: 2011 – Volume 47 (2), April-June

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2011/47_2/47_2.htm

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2011/47_2/129.pdf

One Health History Question: Who coined the term “One Medicine”?

One Health Initiative website Posting – June 27, 2011

By Bruce Kaplan, DVM and Cheryl Scott, RN, NP, DVM, MPVM

Please see attached PDF for full text

One Health opinions, comments and verifiable corrections are welcomed by the One Health Initiative website.  Please submit to kkm@onehealthinitiative.com for consideration.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists -

The uncertainty surrounding sustainable agriculture

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 20 June 2011

“All of our planet's problems began 10,000 to 15,000 years ago with the domestication of livestock and crops, and it went downhill from there. While agriculture provided a stable food supply, it also required the destruction of pristine land. Surplus food enabled the growth of cities; cities led to civilizations; and civilizations eventually discovered the science and technology that allowed our numbers to grow. And, while these advances have been great for us humans, they haven't been so great for the natural world. We have taken from nature and left our amassing waste in the land, oceans, and air -- poisoning our planet. ... “

For more see:

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/the-uncertainty-surrounding-sustainable-agriculture

Book review    

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/4/1/78
Review of "Non-native and invasive ticks - Threats to human and animal health in the United States" by Michael J. Burridge
Sparagano OA
Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:78 (15 May 2011)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

Australian International One Health Leader Supports One Health Institute of Medicine (IOM) Study 

June 17, 2011:

Dr. Martyn Jeggo, veterinarian and international One Health leader from Australia, sent this letter (see attached PDF) supporting an Institute of Medicine (IOM) One Health study/report on the same day that the National Academies of Practice (NAP) http://www.napractice.org/index.cfm sent a letter of support (http://alturl.com/gp778) written to Secretaries of Health and Human Services (Kathleen Sebelius) and Homeland Security (Janet Napolitano).  Both letters endorsed the original One Health Proposal letter http://alturl.com/kv7y8 sent by Drs. Ralph Richardson and Tom Monath to Secretaries Sebelius and Napolitano.

Martyn Jeggo, B.Vet.Med., PhD is the director of CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory.  Dr. Jeggo chaired the Organizing Committee of the first International Congress of One Health held in Melbourne, Australia in February 2011.  By all accounts the meeting was highly successful with an attendance of over 650 delegates worldwide (about 24 countries represented).  See http://www.onehealth2011.com/congress.php.

To date, while representatives from both U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security have expressed strong support for One Health, none have addressed the request to help provide funding for the critically needed One Health IOM study/report.  This relatively modest investment (approximately $1.2 million) is considered essential to help ensure reasonably rapid implementation and institutionalization of the life protecting and life saving One Health concept. 

The One Health Initiative team urges One Health supporters/advocates to write letters of support to the White House and members of their U.S. Congressional delegations, i.e. U.S. Senators and Representatives.  One Health principles are commonsense and non-partisan.

National Academies of Practice (NAP) Supports One Health Institute of Medicine (IOM) Study 

June 17, 2011:

The NAP http://www.napractice.org/index.cfm sent a letter of support (see attachment) written to Secretaries of Health and Human Services (Kathleen Sebelius) and Homeland Security (Janet Napolitano). The NAP letter was signed by the NAP President and President-elect, Drs. Arthur Hazelwood and John Herbold, respectively. It endorsed the original One Health Proposal letter http://alturl.com/kv7y8 sent by Drs. Ralph Richardson and Tom Monath to Secretaries Sebelius and Napolitano.

The Academies include Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Optometry, Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy, Podiatric Medicine, Psychology, Social Work, and Veterinary Medicine.  This multi-disciplinary group represents the true spirit of the One Health concept.

Prominent International One Health Leader Gives “One Health-One Medicine Keynote Address” at National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland (USA)

Veterinarian Martyn Jeggo, BVetMed, PhD presented the “One Health-One Medicine” Keynote address at the Fourteenth Annual National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) Conference on Vaccine Research in Baltimore, Maryland (USA) http://www.nfid.org/index.html / http://www.nfid.org/conferences/vaccine11/ on Monday, May 16, 2011.  This was for Symposium 1: One Health Initiative.

-Please see Slide presentation PDF attached-

Dr. Jeggo is Director, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO Livestock Industries, Victoria, Australia and serves on the One Health Initiative Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

Physician One Health Advocate Recommends Concept to Maine’s U. S. Senator Susan Collins

NOTICE:

One Health Newsletter Spring Issue Posted June 6, 2011

See attached PDF or http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OneHealth.html

Career Choices Book for Veterinarians Discusses Potential Future “One Health” Opportunities

CAREER CHOICES FOR VETERINARIANS:
PRIVATE PRACTICE AND BEYOND   
New!
Second edition, 2011
CARIN A. SMITH, DVM
Contributing Author Nina Kieves, DVM

http://www.smithvet.com/books.shtml#career

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Washington, DC) Responds Favorably to One Health Initiative per se via Letter From Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Please see attached favorable June 7, 2011 letter expressing One Health support from Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, director of the CDC (USA) sent separately (same contents) to Drs. Ralph Richardson Dean Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Manhattan, KS (USA) and Thomas P. Monath, eminent medical virologist .  This was in response to an April 23, 2011 letter sent by Drs. Richardson, and Monath, on behalf of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team.  See original letter sent by clicking on link http://alturl.com/kv7y8. 

U.S. Department of Homeland Security (Washington, DC) Responds Favorably to One Health Initiative per se in Letter

Please see attached favorable May 23, 2011 letter expressing One Health support from Alexander G. Garza, MD, MPH, Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at the department of Homeland Security (USA).   This was in response to an April 23, 2011 letter sent by Drs. Ralph Richardson, Dean Kansas State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, Manhattan, KS (USA) and Tom Monath, eminent medical virologist on behalf of the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team.  See original letter sent by clicking on link http://alturl.com/kv7y8.