6^th Croatian Congress on Infectious Diseases

 -With international participation-

 First Announcement:

 October 24-27, 2009

Hotel Ivan – Solaris, Sibenik, Croatia 

Envirovet Summer Institute 2009 Announcement

Session one: June 16 to July 19, 2009

Session two: July 19 to August 10, 2009

Contact: Robin Royer

Program Associate

Program in Wildlife and Ecosystem Health

Department of Veterinary Biosciences

College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2001 S. Lincoln Ave.

Urbana, IL 61802

217.333.2672

FAX:  217.244.1652

rroyer@illinois.edu

http://vetmed.illinois.edu/envirovet/

Veterinary Public Health (VPH) group at American Public Health Association (APHA) Decides to Orient Towards “One Health Initiatives”

The Veterinary Public Health (VPH) group at the American Public Health Association (APHA) October 2008 convention in San Diego, California decided to orient their VPH, Special Primary Interest Group (SPIG) towards the “One Health Initiative”. 

The ultimate goal of the group has been to attain SPIG status.  Among other requirements, groups must have at least 100 members. (please visit the Publications page of this website to read APHA VPH SPIG business meeting minutes).

Interested public health veterinarians and other public health community professionals may contact Dr. Jim Dale for more information (see below). 

James E. Dale, DVM, MPH, MBA, DACVPM

Jefferson County Department of Health & Environment

Director, Environmental Health

1801 19th Street; Golden, CO 80401

Desk: 303.271.5718 -  Fax:303.271.5702 - Cell: 303.916.0810

jdale@jeffco.us -  JamesEDale@aol.com

European event advocates one health, prevention

Below is the citation from Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences for "A Resolution by the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Support of "One Health."  The volume and website is as follows:
Volume 1149 December 2008
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121569862/issue

AU: Bob Henry Bokma, Edward Paul Johnson Gibbs, Alfredo Alonso Aguirre, Bruce Kaplan
TI: A Resolution by the Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine in Support of "One Health"
SO: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
VL: 1149
NO: Animal Biodiversity and Emerging Diseases Prediction and Prevention
PG: 4-8
YR: 2008
CP: © 2008 New York Academy of Sciences
ON: 1749-6632
PN: 0077-8923
AD: United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Veterinary Services, Riverdale, Maryland, USA;  College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA;  Wildlife Trust, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA;  Sarasota, Florida, USA
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.053
US: http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1428.053

Provided by Bob Bokma, DVM

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/dec08/081215x.asp

The Alliance for Rabies Control:

Previous Newsletter issues may be viewed at

http://www.rabiescontrol.net/EN/Newsletter.html

Current Newsletter, November 2008 at

www.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter10.pdf

Courtesy [December 3, 2008]:

Deborah Briggs, Executive Director of the Alliance and Louise Taylor, Newsletter editor

Guest Column - Sarasota Herald-Tribune (Florida-USA)

Reprint Permission Granted: Thomas Lee Tryon, Opinion Editor, December 2, 2008

Current One Health Supporters with addresses

Veterinaria Italiana, 44(3), 549-556.

Permission to reprint granted 11-26-08 by:

Marguerite Pappaioanou, DVM, MPVM, PhD, Dip ACVPM
Executive Director
Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)

1101 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 301

Washington DC 20005-3536
www.aavmc.org 

Permission to reprint granted 11-26-08 by:

Marguerite Pappaioanou, DVM, MPVM, PhD, Dip ACVPM
Executive Director
Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC)

1101 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 301

Washington DC 20005-3536
www.aavmc.org 

 http://hsc.unm.edu/library/spc/Gordon/biography.shtml

The presentations from the October 7-9, 2008, technical consultations on "avian influenza at the human animal interface," sponsored by FAO, OIE, and WHO and held in Verona, Italy, are now posted on the FAO website, and can be accessed at:

http://www.fao.org/avianflu/en/conferences/verona_2008.html. 

Provided by:

Tracy S. DuVernoy, DVM, MPH, DACVPM

Department Head, Surveillance Operations & Communications, HJF

Department of Defense

Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center

2900 Linden Lane

Silver Spring, MD  20910

Presented at Princeton University

November 19, 2008 by:

Stephen S. Morse, PhD, FAAM, Fellow ACE

Associate Professor of Clinical Epidemiology

Founding Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness

Columbia University

Mailman School of Public Health

New York, NY 10032

https://courseworks.columbia.edu/cms/outview/courseenter.cfm?no=EPIDP8475_001_2008_3

NEHA endorses One Health Initiative.

One World, One Health Rabies

An important Power Point Slide presentation by Dr. George W. Beran.  This was presented in brief form at the International Conference on Rabies in the Americas, September 28 – October 3, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia.  Dr. Beran expects to present it in more detailed form at the World Rabies Day in Atlanta, Georgia, September 2009.

Provided by:

George W. Beran, DVM, PhD, LHD

President, American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES)

Distinguished Professor

College of Veterinary Medicine

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa 50011

The Foundations of Medical and Veterinary Virology: Discoverers and Discoveries, Inventors and Inventions, Developers and Technologies

 Provided by:

Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD
University of Texas Medical Branch
Department of Pathology, Route 0609
301 University Blvd
Galveston, TX 77555-0609

famurphy@utmb.edu

Downloadable Graphics Files:
Virus Images (.tif files)
and
The Foundations of Medical and Veterinary Virology: Discoverers and Discoveries, Inventors and Inventions, Developers and Technology (.doc and .ppt files)

Provide by:

Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD
Department of Pathology
University of Texas Medical Branch
301 University Blvd Route 0609
Galveston, TX 77555-0609

(Office Tel) 409 747 2430
(Home Tel) 409 744 3143
(Cell Tel) 409 739 3332
(Email) famurphy@utmb.edu

http://www.utmb.edu/ihii/virusimages/Foundations%20of%20Virology%20combined.ppt#706,515,Slide 515      

Note: It may take some time to download these graphics files.

http://www.sti.ch/en/research/public-health-and-epidemiology/human-and-animal-health.html

Provided by:

Jakob Zinsstag-Klopfenstein, DVM, PhD (Assistant Professor)
Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health
Swiss Tropical Institute
PO Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

Human health benefits from livestock vaccination for brucellosis: case study

 Felix Roth, Jakob Zinsstag, Dontor Orkhon, G. Chimed-Ochir, Guy Hutton, Ottorino Cosivi, Guy Carrin, Joachim Otte

 Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2003, 81 (12)

 Provided by:

Jakob Zinsstag-Klopfenstein DVM PhD (Assistant Professor)
Dept. of Epidemiology and Public Health
Swiss Tropical Institute
PO Box, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

Lessons from the 2006–2007 Rift Valley fever outbreak in East Africa: implications for prevention of emerging infectious diseases

Robert F Breiman, M Kariuki Njenga, Sarah Cleaveland, SK Sharif, Murithi Mbabu, Lonnie King

Future Virology, September 2008, Vol. 3, No. 5, Pages 411-417

© Future Medicine Ltd (www.futuremedicine.com)

 Provided by:

Robert F. Breiman, MD

Head, Global Disease Detection Division

Chief, International Emerging Infections Program

CDC-Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/the-role-of-bats-disease-transmission

A valued One Health supporter and advocate

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/nov08/081101i.asp

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/index.htm

A team at the University of Pittsburgh's World Health Organization Collaborating Center created “Supercourse”, compiling more than 3,500 lectures on health and epidemiology, including many on pandemics, mass casualties, and other issues related to public health during disasters.

Provided by:

David R. Franz, DVM, PhD

V.P. & Chief Biological Scientist

Midwest Research Institute

Director, NABC

Kansas State University

365 W. Patrick Street, Suite 223

Frederick, MD  21701

http://www.publichealthassociate.com/

Dr. James H. Steele contributed significantly to Public Health Associate as a reviewer and through the use of his CRC Handbook Series on Zoonoses as a reference for disease descriptions.

Provided by:

Craig N. Carter, DVM, MS, PhD, Dipl ACVPM

Director and Professor, Epidemiology
Livestock Disease Diagnostic Center
College of Agriculture

College of Public Health
University of Kentucky
1490 Bull Lea Road
P.O. Box 14125
Lexington, KY  40512-4125

http://www.soctropvetmed.org/

Provided by:

Bob H. Bokma, DVM, FSTVM

USDA-APHIS
Export Animal Products
National Center for Import and Export
4700 River Road, Unit 40
Riverdale, MD 20737 USA

A Stragegic Framework for Reducing Risks of Infectious Diseases at the Animal-Human Ecosystems Interface

Provided by:

Carina Blackmore, DVM, PhD

State Public Health Veterinarian

State Environmental Epidemiologist

Bureau of Community Environmental Health Division of Environmental Health

Florida Department of Health

Tallahassee, FL 32399-1712

Provided by:

Stephen A. Berger, MD

Director of Geographic Medicine and Clinical Microbiology

Associate Professor of Medicine

University of Tel-Aviv

School of Medicine

Tel-Aviv, Israel

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews, September 2008, p. 457-470, Vol. 72, No. 3
1092-2172/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/MMBR.00004-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Provided by:

Andrés Rojas, DVM
Research Intern
University of Florida at Gainesville
Animal Science Building

White Oak Conservation Center

Yulee, Florida 32097

 http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/oct08/081001h.asp

Director, Zoonotic Diseases and Special Pathogens, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada

The American Journal of Medicine, March 2008

Presented at Princeton University Seminar of Biosecurity, Biotechnology and Global Health, October 3, 2008.

One to One, Leading the way to One World, One Health...an important quarterly newsletter

Published to subscribers October 2, 2008