One Health Academy – new website www.onehealthacademy.org: now linked with One Health Initiative Website

March 11^th, 2010 Washington, DC meeting (USA) will be Harold C. (Woody) Davis, JD, MD 

Please see Dr. Davis’s Curriculum Vitae on this One Health Initiative Publications page.

For Reservation Details See: Upcoming Events page http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/events.php

Special guest speaker for March 11th meeting will be Dr. Harold C. (Woody) Davis.  Dr. Davis serves as a senior policy advisor for Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) System Operations SysOps) as part of the CNA Air Traffic Management (ATM) team. Dr. Davis supports development of NextGen Air Traffic Policy specifically with regard to operations, security and fees including data collection and data dissemination from multiple sources, including satellite, UAS, aircraft and ground based systems. Dr. Davis has over 25 years of experience in aviation, aviation medicine, program management, legal and operations in support of the United States Air Force (USAF), FAA, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as well as other Federal organizations and agencies as well as Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Texas at Austin.

The University of Texas School of Public Health

Invites you to a special book signing event featuring

           Newly published works from celebrated

         University of Texas School of Public Health

                        Emeritus Professors.

    Blair Justice, PhD and James H. Steele, DVM, MPH

                 Thursday, November 19, 2009

                               4 to 6 P.M.

Provided by:

Cathy Merriman

Director of Development

UT School of Public Health

1200 Herman Pressler, Suite 126

Houston, TX  77030

713-500-9059

Mark your calendars!

Historic FIRST Joint One Health Symposium with the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) and the Society of Veterinary Tropical Medicine (SVTM) will be held Nov 21, 2009 at 3:45 p.m.

ASTMH 58th Annual Meeting

November 18-22, 2009

Washington, DC, USA

Contact: info@astmh.org

www.astmh.org

The agenda:

TITLE: One World - One Health and Intercontinental Invaders

Bob H. Bokma, DVM -  E. Paul Gibbs, BVSc, PhD - Thomas P. Monath, MD … Co-Chairs

“ONE HEALTH" APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE ZOONOTIC WATERBORNE PROTOZOAL PARASITES IN CALIFORNIA AND TANZANIA - Patricia A. Conrad, Woutrina Miller, Deana Clifford, and Jonna K. Mazet

RIFT VALLEY FEVER VIRUS, A ZOONOTIC DISEASE OF HIGH CONSEQUENCE IN BOTH THE VETERINARY AND HUMAN HEALTH ARENAS – T.G. Ksiazek

MARINE VERTEBRATES AS SENTINELS OF EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES: ONE HEALTH LINKING LAND TO SEA - A. Alonso Aguirre

HOW WEST NILE AND AVIAN INFLUENZA VIRUSES ILLUSTRATE THE CHALLENGES IN APPLYING ONE HEALTH - Samantha E. J. Gibbs

CONCURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL WEST NILE VACCINES FOR HUMANS AND EQUIDS: APPLICATION OF ONE HEALTH PRINCIPLES - Thomas P. Monath

A One Health Academy luncheon on Friday, October 23, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon at the Capital Yacht Club, 1000 Water St., SW, Washington, DC will feature a talk by Dr. M.D. (Mo) Salman entitled   ‘Why is the "One Health/Medicine" Logo not the solution?’

Please RSVP to Deeanna Burleson at: deeburleson@gmail.com or call Deeanna at 703-303-6143.

 A Global Health Initiative (AGHI) Sponsored by Colorado State University

See power point slide presentation provided by:

Mo Salman BVMS, MPVM, PhD, DACVPM, F.A.C.E.

Professor of Veterinary Epidemiology

Campus Stop 1644

Animal Population Health Institute

College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO 80523-1644

Voice message: 1.970.297.0353

Fax: 1.970.297.5228

Fall 2009 – One Health Newsletter  (USA)

 Published online October 9, 2009

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

Call for Papers

Special Supplement on Healthy People in a Healthy Environment

For:   Public Health reports

Provided by:

Hugh M. Mainzer, MS, DVM, Dipl. ACVPM
Captain, United States Public Health Service
Chief Veterinary Officer, USPHS

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services
Mailstop F-60, Building 106, Room 6124
4770 Buford Highway, NE
Atlanta, GA 30341

Ph: (1)770.488.3138
Fax:(1)770.488.7310
Hugh.Mainzer@cdc.hhs.gov  

The United States Public Health Service: Protecting, promoting, and advancing the health and safety of the Nation

News Release

The Alliance for Rabies Control

 Rabies is Still Deadliest Disease, Yet Preventable

For Immediate Release                                                  

 Monday, September 28, 2009 

Contact: Peter Costa                                        

00 + 1.919.830.2199

peter.costa@worldrabiesday.org

Veterinary Epidemiological Bulletin - Sri Lanka

Courtesy of Dr. Ravi Bandara Dissanayake, Editor

MMWR – Early Release

September 10, 2009 / 58(Early Release);1-4

Update: Influenza Activity --- United States, April--August 2009

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm58e0910a1.htm

The July issue of the Alliance for Rabies Control's newsletter is now available at:

www.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter13.pdf

There are articles on rabies control in Canada and India, World Rabies Day 

activities, a rabies outbreak in Namibian wildlife, vampire bat rabies in Latin

America, new strategies being developed in the ASEAN+3 countries and others. 

Deborah Briggs, Executive Director of the Alliance

and Louise Taylor, Newsletter editor 

2009 Is 10th Anniversary Of West Nile Virus 1st Outbreak

BY RICHARD GENTILVISO – The Queens Gazette

http://www.qgazette.com/news/2009/0722/features/009.html

http://nyc.gov/html/doh/html/wnv/wnvfaq1.shtml

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=james+h.+steele&x=15&y=24

Biography On Sale now on Amazon…

One Man, One Medicine, One Health: The James H. Steele Story by Craig Nash Carter (Paperback - Jun 17, 2009)

Buy new: $23.99

Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping.

One Health Commission Established (USA)

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/aug09/090801a.asp

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

August 1, 2009

2009 Karl F. Meyer - James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Awarded “One Health” advocate Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD (TB Expert) at AVMA Conference in Seattle July 11, 2009

http://www.avma.org/press/releases/090711_convention_awards.asp#gold

This annual award recognizes and honors the achievements of an individual concerned with animal health that have significantly advanced human health through the practice of veterinary epidemiology and public health.

... [Dr. Thoen] was recently invited to serve as the primary author of a monograph, "Tuberculosis: a Re-emerging Disease in Animals and Humans" for One Health/One Medicine [Veterinaria Italiana Journal – Edited by the Kahn-Kaplan-Monath One Health team], and is currently an associate editor of The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease…

Please see:

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/135.htm

Press Release January, 2009

Book Signing Announced for Jim Steele

Biography

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Meeting, Seattle, July 11-14, 2009

Book Cover Released June 15, 2009 [SEE PDF VIEW]

Book Signing Announced for Jim Steele

Biography

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Meeting July 11-14, 2009 in Seattle

ONE MAN, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH: The James H. Steele Story

Craig Nash Carter, DVM, PhD

With Cynthia Gregg Hoobler, DVM, MPH

One Health Newsletter Editor Honored at Florida Veterinary Medical Association (FVMA) Annual Meeting, April 17, 2009 

 Mary Echols, DVM, MPH awarded FVMA Gold Star Award

By Amber Smith

FVMA Director of Communications and Public Relations

Dr. Mary Echols is the epitome of the “gentle doctor.’’ Her colleagues describe her as humble, hard working, visionary and extremely effective.

Dr. Echols, an Environmental Consultant with the Palm Beach County Health Department, was nominated for the Florida Veterinary Medical Association’s 2009 Gold Star Award by Dr. Lisa Conti, Director of the Florida Department of Health’s Division of Environmental Health. The award is given to a veterinarian who has contributed much of his or her time and energy to the FVMA and/or a local veterinary association as well as promoting the advancement of veterinary medicine and the profession. The recipient must also be a member in good standing of the FVMA. In addition to her work for the Palm Beach County Health Department, Dr. Echols is also the editor of the ONE HEALTH newsletter published by the Florida Department of Health.

She brought together the resources and cooperation of the FVMA, the state Department of Health and the veterinary community in general, to launch the state’s ONE HEALTH initiative.

“Dr. Echols is the driving force behind the ONE HEALTH initiative,’’ said Dr. Conti. “She began the ONE HEALTH newsletter to reach a wide audience of veterinarians, human health workers and public health professionals to collaborate on protecting and promoting the health of all species.’’

Dr. Echols has successfully published four quarterly issues of the newsletter and has received national recognition for her efforts as well as accolades for the high-quality publication.

“We are very proud to have Dr. Mary Echols representing the FVMA so favorably,’’ said Dr. Conti.

FVMA Executive Director Philip J. Hinkle said it was an easy decision for the FVMA awards committee to make in selecting Dr. Echols as a Gold Star Award recipient.

“Dr. Echols truly represents all the criteria of the Gold Star Award. She has done an excellent job in promoting veterinary medicine and is an outstanding example of the profession,’’ Hinkle said.

Provided May 29, 2009 courtesy of:

Amber L. Smith

Director of Communications and Public Relations

Florida Veterinary Medical Association

7131 Lake Ellenor Dr.

Orlando, FL  32809

Toll-free: 800-992-3862

Fax: 407-240-3710

E-mail: asmith@fvma.com

An Overview of Safety and Health for Workers in the Horse-Racing Industry

NIOSH Publication No. 2009-128: April, 2009

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2009-128/ 

This document addresses some of the health and safety issues faced by

workers in the horse racing industry. It is a good example of

“One Health” in practice - the document was co-written by a

veterinarian, a physician, and safety specialists on staff at NIOSH, with

input from other professionals around the country, and addresses an issue

important to both human and animal health.

Provided May 19, 2009 by:

John D. Gibbins, DVM, MPH, dipl. ACVPM  Commander

US Public Health Service

Senior Staff Veterinary Epidemiologist 

Hazard Evaluations and Technical Assistance Branch

CDC/NIOSH

4676 Columbia Parkway R-10

Cincinnati Ohio 45226

An Important Newsweek Letter-to-the Editor from:

 Laura H. Kahn, MD – May 16, 2009  (Scroll down to third letter)

From the magazine issue dated May 25, 2009

‘Fear & the Flu: The New Age of Pandemics’

http://www.newsweek.com/id/197887?tid=relatedcl

In response to the following:

The Path of a Pandemic

How one virus spread from pigs and birds to humans around the globe. And why microbes like the H1N1 flu have become a growing threat.

By Laurie Garrett | NEWSWEEK

Published May 2, 2009

From the magazine issue dated May 18, 2009

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195692

Newsweek permission to publish granted: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:15 PM

The American Physiological Society has endorsed the One Health Initiative. 

Please see published letter from President, Dr. Irving H. Zucker and Executive Director, Dr. Martin Frank on this Publication page and the News page of this website.

JAVMA NEWS:

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/may09/090515w.asp

One-health wonders column featuring Bruce Kaplan, DVM

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/webcast.htm

Sebelius, Napolitano to Host Webcast on H1N1 Flu, Answers Questions from the American People

http://www.avma.org/press/releases/090504_H1N1_flu.asp

www.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter12.pdf

http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8418.pdf

Swine Influenza Outbreak News

http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8418.pdf

Outbreak of Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection - Mexico, March - April, 2009

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=ind_focus.story&STORY=/www/story/04-24-2009/0005012663&EDATE=

http://www.avma.org/public_health/influenza/new_virus/default.asp

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/may09/090515ff.asp

Dr Janis Audin (1951-2009)

Dr. Audin’s obituary can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.cababstractsplus.org/veterinarymedicine/articles.asp?ArticleID=19439&action=display&openMenu=relatedItems&Year=2009

This link is to the current VetMed Resource site. You may need to log in. Please feel free to use this free username and password that will be good till the end of May.

Username: CAB5

Password: copenhagen

(please note that the username and password are case sensitive and should be entered as typed).

Link and permission to access provided by:

Robert Taylor

Content Manager, Animal, Human & Social Sciences

CABI Head Office

Nosworthy Way

Wallingford

Oxfordshire

OX10 8DE

United Kingdom

Swine Influenza CDC Update - April 29, 2009

http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/?s_cid=swineFlu_outbreak_001

http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - April 28, 2009

Swine Influenza (Flu)

Influenza-like illness in the United States and Mexico

24 April 2009 --

http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/index.html

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm58d0424a1.htm

Update: Swine Influenza A (H1N1) Infection - California and Texas

http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8417.pdf

Integrated control of neglected zoonotic diseases in Africa

WHO - Weekly Epidemiological Record

24 April 2009, vol. 84, 17 (pp. 147-148)

One Health One Medicine Foundation

http://www.onehealthonemedicine.org/

“The "One Health, One Medicine" Clinics were initiated in 2007 by St. George’s University School of Veterinary Medicine student Brittany King on the island of Grenada, West Indies.”

http://www.avma.org/aa/audin_janis_090423.asp

Dr. Janis H. Audin, JAVMA Editor-in-Chief Emeritus Dies April 22, 2009.

Please see Tribute to Dr. Audin on News page of this website.

American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians NEWSLETTER - WINTER 2009

ONE HEALTH ISSUE...

Surprising diversity found in H5N1 in Asian chickens

April 14, 2009 CIDRAP News

Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
Academic Health Center -- University of Minnesota
Copyright © 2009 Regents of the University of Minnesota

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/avianflu/news/apr1409vietnam.html

National Wildlife Disease Surveillance and Emergency Response Program

THE CARRIER -  Volume 1, Issue 2

See a significant One Health comment by Coordinator, Dr. Thomas DeLiberto in the first article.

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife_damage/nwdp/pdf/The%20Carrier1(2).pdf

Provided by:

Michael P. Milleson
Wildlife Disease Biologist
USDA/APHIS/WS-Florida
National Wildlife Disease Surveillance
And Emergency Response Program
2820 East University Avenue
Gainesville, FL  32641

April 13, 2009

One Health Newsletter – 2009 Spring Issue Published

One Health Newsletter

ONE HEALTH NEWSLETTER – 2009 Spring Issue Published

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OHNLSpring2009.pdf

Immuno Valley Consortium and One Health

www.immunovalley.nl

Research and valorisation in emerging infectious diseases

Immuno Valley strives to connect animal and human health

Mission Immuno Valley 2007-2010

Immuno Valley brings science into society. It strives to reinforce economic activity in the field of health and life sciences.

Provided April 10, 2009 by:

Prof Arno N. Vermeulen, PhD

Immuno Valley

General Management & Valorisation

PO Box 80163

Yalelaan 1

3508 TD Utrecht,

Netherlands

Request for Abstract Reviewers for the 2009 National Environmental Health Conference

Your help is needed to identify abstract reviewers for the 2009 National Environmental Public Health Conference, Healthy People in a Healthy Environment, in Atlanta, Georgia,  October 26-28, 2009.

Please send in completed forms to nephc2009@cdc.gov. by April 17th.  If selected, reviewers will be notified by the end of April.  See blank PDF form attached.

Reviewers are needed for each of the six conference tracks, please see the list below.  Each reviewer may be asked to review up to 20 abstracts. Abstract review will occur May 11-29, 2009. 

Conference Tracks: 

• Healthy Places
• Public Health & Environmental Exposures
• Sustainability & Public Health
• Environmental Systems & Public Health
• Environmental Health Emergencies
• Environmental Health Science & Practice 

Provided by:

Lisa Conti, DVM, MPH, Dipl. ACVPM, CEHP

Director, Division of Environmental Health

Florida State Health Department

Tallahassee, FL

Rockefeller Foundation funding creation of One Health Commission

JAVMA News – April 15, 2009

 http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/apr09/090415h.asp

[Article in French]

Duquenoy A, Le Luyer B.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VKK-4VW4V6S-1&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=30cdac4b628a92bb413aa4f05d5d56dc

Département de pédiatrie, groupe hospitalier du Havre, 55, Bis rue Gustave-Flaubert, 76083 Le Havre cedex, France.

Gastric infection with Helicobacter heilmannii is rare but is known to be associated with chronic active gastritis, peptic ulcer, and low-grade mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma in humans. In contrast to H. pylori, various H. heilmannii species colonize the stomachs of domestic animals, which might be a reservoir for transmission to humans. We report the case of a 12-year-old boy presenting with chronic gastritis caused by H. heilmannii. Endoscopic examination reveals H. heilmannii-like infection on biopsy samples in his two pet dogs. Sequencing of the 16S and 23S ribosomal DNA by PCR was used to compare the H. heilmannii-like bacterial samples isolated in the boy and his dogs. These DNA amplification methods suggest that the boy was infected by his pet dogs (zoonosis). Our patient was cured by treatment with proton-pump inhibitor and antibiotics. Endoscopic follow-up of the boy showed a complete cure of gastritis and eradication of the bacterium.

PMID: 19303265 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Related Articles

·         Specific detection and prevalence of Helicobacter heilmannii-like organisms in the human gastric mucosa by fluorescent in situ hybridization and partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequencing. [J Clin Microbiol. 2001]

·         Helicobacter heilmannii-associated primary gastric low-grade MALT lymphoma: complete remission after curing the infection. [Gastroenterology. 2000]

·         Helicobacter heilmannii gastritis: association with acid peptic diseases and comparison with Helicobacter pylori gastritis. [Mod Pathol. 1999]

·         ReviewHelicobacter heilmannii gastritis: a case study with review of literature. [Am J Surg Pathol. 2005]

·         ReviewHelicobacter heilmannii infection in a child after successful eradication of Helicobacter pylori: case report and review of literature. [J Gastroenterol. 2005]

» See All...

MMWR

 Nonfatal Fall-Related Injuries Associated with Dogs and Cats --- United States, 2001--2006

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5811a1.htm?s_cid=mm5811a1_e 

March 18, 2009

Re Nicholas Kristof’s New York Times article “Our Pigs, Our Food, Our Health” (opinion, March 12, 2009)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/opinion/12kristof.html?ref=opinion

A One Health letter-to-the-editor of the New York Times from Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Thomas P. Monath, MD and Jack Woodall, PhD was published today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/opinion/l19kristof.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200903/146327441.pdf

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/mar09/090315k.asp

     WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

     Weekly epidemiological record

     WHO web sites on infectious diseases

     March 6, 2009, No. 10, Page 84

http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8410.pdf

The journal of the European Medical Writers Association, The Write Stuff

"Will avian influenza lead to a human pandemic?"

   By Robert Kahn, PhD

www.emwa.org/JournalArticles/JA_V18_I1_Kahn1.pdf

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA), HUMAN, ZOO ELEPHANT - USA: (CALIFORNIA) 2008
**************************************************************************
A ProMED-mail post
<http://www.promedmail.org>
ProMED-mail is a program of the
International Society for Infectious Diseases
<http://www.isid.org

Date: Fri 6 Mar 2009
Source: Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2009; 58(08):194-198 [edited]
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5808a3.htm?s_cid=mm5808a3_e>


Methicillin-resistant _Staphylococcus aureus_ (MRSA) infections are a
major cause of human skin and soft tissue infections in the United
States (1). MRSA colonization and infection also have been observed in
turtles, bats, seals, sheep, rabbits, rodents, cats, dogs, pigs,
birds, horses, and cattle (2--8), and MRSA infections with an
epidemiologic link to animal contact have been reported in veterinary
personnel, pet owners, and farm animal workers (5,7,8).

On 29 Jan 2008, the County of San Diego Health and Human Services
Agency was notified of skin pustules on an African elephant
(_Loxodonta africana_) calf and 3 of its caretakers at a zoo in San
Diego County. After each of these infections (including the calf's
infection) was laboratory confirmed as MRSA, an outbreak investigation
and response was initiated by the zoo and the agency. This report
summarizes the results of that investigation, which identified 2
additional confirmed MRSA infections, 15 suspected MRSA infections,
and 3 MRSA-colonized persons (all among calf caretakers), and
concluded that infection of the elephant calf likely came from a
colonized caretaker.

This is the 1st reported case of MRSA in an elephant and of suspected
MRSA transmission from an animal to human caretakers at a zoo.

[Voluminous further details, and the 10 refs., may be found at the
source URL. - Mod.JW]

Note: Caretakers blew air with their unmasked mouths into the calf's
trunk to stimulate bottle feeding (its mother had died).

USDA Office of the Chief Economist Agricultural Outlook Forum, 2009

Arlington, Virginia

February 26 – 27, 2009

 Scroll Down to Friday, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

 Food Safety Track

 One World, One Health: Issues at the Intersection of Animal & Human Health

One World, One Health: Issues at the Intersection of Animal & Human Health
Moderator: Cindy J. Smith, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA, Washington, DC
PDF

One Health: A Concept for the 21st Century
Laura H. Kahn, MD, Research Scholar, Program on
Science and Global Security, Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ
PDF

One Health: Assuming Our Collaborative
Responsibility
Roger Mahr, Former President, American Veterinary
Medical Association (AVMA), Representative to the One
Health Joint Steering Committee, Washington, DC
PDF

The Importance of the Animal, Health-food, Safety,
Public Health Continuum and the Use of Public-Private Partnerships to Address Long-term Solutions
Mike Robach, Vice President, Corporate Food Safety and
Regulatory Affairs, Cargill, Inc., Minneapolis, MN
PDF

The Animal/Human Interface-from Wildlife Trade
to Avian Influenza: A Global Perspective on
Implications for the United States
Kristine Smith, Wildlife Veterinarian, Assistant Director
for Field Programs, Global Health Program, Wildlife
Conservation Society, Bronx, NY 

Damborg P, Top J, Hendrickx AP, Dawson S, Willems RJ, Guardabassi L

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19233953?ordinalpos=2&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Clostridium perfringens Infection Among Inmates at a County Jail - Wisconsin, August 2008 MMWR

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5806.pdf

Molecular epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in Hungary: endemic, food-borne zoonosis.

Reuter G, Fodor D, Forgách P, Kátai A, Szucs G.

Orv Hetil. 2009 Mar 1;150(9):415-21. Hungarian.

PMID: 19228570 [PubMed - in process]

The threat of emerging ocean diseases, Feb 18, 2009 - by L.H. Kahn

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/the-threat-of-emerging-ocean-diseases

Information for Veterinarians and Veterinary Professionals regarding Pets and the Peanut Butter and Peanut-Product Recall

Questions and Answers Related to Pets and the Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak

as of February 14, 2009

Coccidioidomycosis, MMWR - Feb. 13, 2009/Vol. 58/No. 5, Pages 1-5 

Principal animals involved:  Cattle, sheep, horses, dogs, wild cats, desert rodents, and other animals.  Disease primarily occurs in environmental specific arid foci. Source: Table 01: Global Zoonoses - The Merck Veterinary Manual - Ninth Edition (see Publications page).

Weekly Epidemiological Record (WER) - Feb 13, 2009, vol. 84, 7 (pp 49-56)

Ebola Reston in pigs and humans, Phillipines; Cholera outbreak, Zimbabwe; Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

MMWR, Feb. 6, 2009/Vol. 58/No. 4 - Pages 9 -14

Principal Animals Involved: Poultry, swine, cattle, horses, dogs, cats, wild mammals and birds, reptiles, amphibians, and crustaceans.  About 2000 serovars of enteric Salmonella with 200 noted in the USA. Source: Table 01: Global Zoonoses - The Merck Veterinary Manual - Ninth Edition (see Publications page).

LEPTOSPIROSIS SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS, MANILA, NOVEMBER 2008 - Pages 41-43

http://www.who.int/wer/2009/wer8406.pdf

PubMed

1: Vet J. 2009 Feb 2.

Palmer CS, Robertson ID, Traub RJ, Rees R, Andrew Thompson RC.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19196527?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

Emerging Tick-borne Diseases.

Fritz CL.

Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 2009 Mar;39(2):265-78.

PMID: 19185193 [PubMed - in process]

Division of Communicable Disease Control, California Department of Public Health, 1616 Capitol Avenue, MS 7307, P.O. Box 997377, Sacramento, CA 95899-7377, USA.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19185193?ordinalpos=14&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

One Health Newsletter Authors as of February 5, 2009

(All authors not identified by country are from USA)

Provided by: 

Mary Echols, DVM, MPH, Editor

Palm Beach County Health Department

Environmental Health & Engineering

901 Evernia Street

West Palm Beach, FL 33402

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6869/is_5_97/ai_n28448926

JAVMA NEWS:

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/feb09/090215j.asp

One-Health wonders column featuring Thomas G. Ksiazek, DVM, PhD

Please See Brochure PDF for Registration Form

This is to inform you that the 7th annual scientific conference of Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU) will be held during 17-19 March 2009 at Hotel Agrabad, Chittagong, Bangladesh and the theme for this year is: Food Security and Food Safety: Towards One World, One Health Approach - Bangladesh.  

Obtain Conference Information from Conference Secretariat:

Chittagong Veterinary & Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Khuisi, Chittagon 4204, Bangladesh

E-mail: CVASUREG@GMAIL.COM 

Professor Nitish C. Debnath, DVM, MS, PhD
 Vice Chancellor
 Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University
 Chittagong 4202, Bangladesh

January 14, 2009

Pet-Associated Infections, Shared Risk, and “One Health”

Peter M. Rabinowitz, MD, MPH

Yale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program

Medicine Grand Rounds

Kalamazoo, MI

Dr. Laura H. Kahn’s "One Health" response to this third annual e-discussion in support of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) request (SEE BELOW). The 2009 AMR is focusing on “Global Public Health”

 Thursday, January 29, 2009

EDEN Project

http://www.eden-fp6project.net/

EDEN (Emerging Diseases in a changing European environment) is an Integrated Project of the European Commission that aims to identify and catalogue those European ecosystems and environmental conditions which can influence the spatial and temporal distribution and dynamics of human pathogenic agents. The project develops and co-coordinates a set of generic methods, tools and skills such as predictive models, early warning and monitoring tools which can be used by decision makers for risk assessment, decision support for intervention and public health policies.

EDEN integrates research in 48 leading institutes from 24 countries. The eco-geographical diversity of the project area covers all relevant European eco-systems from the polar circle in the North to the Mediterranean basin and its link with West Africa in the South, and from Portugal in the West to the Danube delta in the East. EDEN is organised into a series of vertical Sub-Projects linked together by a series of Integrative Activities that include biodiversity monitoring, environmental change detection, disease modelling, remote sensing and image interpretation, information and communication.

Conservation Through Public Health

http://www.ctph.org/node/180
 

Voice of America reporter Peterson Ssendi in Kampala profiles wildlife veterinarian Dr. Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, an Ashoka Fellow and the work of her group, “Conservation Through Public Health.”

In Uganda, a conservationist is teaching members of poor rural communities that they have more in common with the neighboring wildlife than they think. She says, for example, that disease can be transferred between people and animals. And she says well-kept wildlife sanctuaries can provide an income for the community.
Download MP3 interview at: http://128.11.143.113/english/Africa/2008-01-17-voa38.cfm

Provided Jan 23, 2003 by:

Justin Sobota, MS, DVM

MIT News

Nitric oxide shown to cause colon cancer

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/colon-cancer-0119.html

Provided January 23, 2009 by:

Marguerite Pappaioanou, DVM, MPVM, PhD, DACVPM

Executive Director, American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges

1101 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 301
Washington DC 20005-3536

The New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory (NE-RBL)

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Tufts University, Grafton, MA

www.tufts.edu/vet/rbl

Provided by:

Saul Tzipori, DVM, PhD, DSc, FRCVS, NE-RBL Director

Distinguished Professor of Microbiology/Infectious Diseases

Agnes Varis University Chair in Science and Society

Director, Division of Infectious Diseases

Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

Tufts University

North Grafton, MA 01536

 AVMA representative sought for one-health steering committee

“Dr. Roger K. Mahr, the previous AVMA representative, has agreed to serve as the steering committee's project director, which is an administrative staff role.”

The late Dr. Ron Davis, physician and immediate past president of the American Medical Association was honored by a "One-health wonders" column in the January 15, 2009 Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Ron was a valued One Health Supporter and friend collectively and individually of the Kahn-Kaplan-Monath One Health team.  He was a giant in the One Health movement and shall be sorely missed.

January 12, 2009

ONE HEALTH NEWSLETTER - 2009 Winter Issue Published

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

 “The 2009 Winter Issue of the One Health Newsletter intentionally solicited various points of view on the judicious use of antimicrobials in an effort to promote discussion on this important and controversial subject.  Indeed, in the spirit of One Health we encourage prospective authors to express different points of view on a variety of public health and clinical health topics, not just antibiotic use. ” 

Mary Echols, DVM, MPH, Editor

One Health Newsletter

Permission to publish provided by Robert E. Kahn, PhD on January 13, 2009

Permission to publish provided by Robert E. Kahn, PhD on January 13, 2009

A poster prepared for the American Society of Microbiology

Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies

Website Report

 On December 31, 2008 the Institute of Medicine [IOM] released a workshop report in response to their 5 meetings held since June 25, 2008 on 'Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin.'  For information on the meetings,

see:   http://www.iom.edu/?ID=54653.  There is also a link to access the

full report.

The description of the book is "One of the biggest threats today is the uncertainty surrounding the emergence of a novel pathogen or the re-emergence of a known infectious disease that might result in disease outbreaks with great losses of human life and immense global economic consequences. Over the past six decades, most of the emerging infectious disease events in humans have been caused by zoonotic pathogens-those infectious agents that are transmitted from animals to humans.

Noteworthy changes in the patterns of human and animal contact in recent years make conditions ripe for global outbreaks of zoonotic diseases.

Some of these diseases, including AIDS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and Avian Influenza, have already caused global health and economic crises. With one billion people crossing international borders every year, animals and animal products including meat traveling great distances to reach their final destinations, and disproportionate population growth in countries with the highest poverty rates, new outbreaks could emerge with devastating health, economic, environmental, agricultural, and sociopolitical results.

In June 2008, the Institute of Medicine's and National Research Council's Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin convened a workshop. This workshop addressed the reasons for the transmission of zoonotic disease and explored the current global capacity for zoonotic disease surveillance. In particular, workshop participants discussed methods of disease surveillance as a way of detecting outbreaks of zoonotic disease in humans, outbreaks of diseases in animals, and how these data can inform the responses to these outbreaks or perhaps prevent outbreaks in the future. The committee will follow up these discussions with a consensus study with its recommendations for sustainable global capacity for zoonotic disease surveillance and response, to be released June 2009."

http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3783/54653/60957.aspx

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

phone:  301-319-3297

Fax:  301-319-9213

cell:  202-471-0862

DSN:  285

email:  tracy.duvernoy@amedd.army.mil or tracy.duvernoy@us.army.mil

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

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

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

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

"Rethinking Biosecurity..."

 Perspectives ['One Health'] of the President of American Public Health Association (APHA).  With permission http://www.apha.org/

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/the-scourge-of-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria

Comparative Pathology approach within 'One Health'

Focused Mission of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corp

Footnote: Typo in letter with incorrect date, i.e. "2008" instead of 2007.

Historic 'One Health' resolution

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/how-pet-food-scare-affects-global-health

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/animals-the-worlds-best-and-cheapest-biosensors

The Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal [Op-Ed], USA

St. Petersburg (FL) Times [Op-Ed], USA

Veterinarians "using their scientific knowledge and skills to benefit society, promote public health and advance medical knowledge."    http://www.aavmc.org