Official Newsletter of the National Institute for Animal Agriculture (NIAA) – Vol 10 – No.1 – March 2010

One Health Center Stage at NIAA’s Annual Meeting

http://www.animalagriculture.org/Information/Publications/NIAA/2010/March.pdf

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.

FoodSafety.gov - SALMONELLA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The NATION’S HEALTH – American Public Health Association

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

Provided by:

Peter J. Costa, MPH, CHES

Global Communications Coordinator

Global Alliance for Rabies Control

World Rabies Day Campaign

00 + 1.919.830.2199

peter.costa@worldrabiesday.org

www.worldrabiesday.org

IMPORTANT!  Sustaining Global Surveillance and Response to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

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

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

Description:

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

Confronting Infectious Diseases in an Interconnected World:

People, Animals, and the Environment

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

Strategic Framework 2009 - 2014

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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

Agriculture

  The Future of the agricultural life sciences in the Netherlands

    A vision for 2020 and beyond

Provided by:

Prof Arno N. Vermeulen, PhD

Immuno Valley

General Management & Valorisation

PO Box 80163

Yalelaan 1

3508 TD Utrecht

T +31(0)30.2531618

M +31(0)6.46311342

www.immunovalley.nl

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

  Global One Health Concerns That Demand Veterinary Attention

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

                  All Lectures Free…Open to Public

            Details Coming soon…More Speakers to Follow

Provided by:

Cheryl Scott, RN, NP, DVM, MPVM

Calvin Schwabe One Health Project

Program Director

UCDavis School of Veterinary Medicine (USA)

Deans Office Surge IV

RM 119

530.754.0324

cascott@ucdavis.edu

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

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

Canary Database Project News

September 14, 2009

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

Editors: Rabinowitz, P. Conti, L.

Release Date: December 2009

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

ISBN-10: 1-4160-6837-6

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

Link to more detail on the book.

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

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

Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Duke University Graduate Medical School - Singapore

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

Duane J. Gubler, ScD, FAAAS, FIDSA

Director

Program on Emerging Infectious Disease

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School,

8 College Road,  Singapore 169857

and

Asian Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases

University of Hawaii, Honolulu

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

Tel:65 6516 7256

Veterinary Epidemiological Bulletin - Sri Lanka

Courtesy of Dr. Ravi Bandara Dissanayake, Editor

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

MRSA = Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

The New York Times

By BRENDA GOODMAN

Published: September 21, 2009

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

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

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

Supplied by: Peter J. Costa, MPH, CHES

 Global Communications Coordinator for the Rabies Alliance

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

International Society for Infectious Diseases NEWS

September 2009 Issue

Includes upcoming international meetings

One world, one health message brought home

RE: The Ontario Veterinary College’s Animal Welfare Club

Email the author

September 13, 2009

Vik Kirsch
vkirsch@guelphmercury.com

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

“THE MAKING OF MODERN NEW MEXICO:

THE ROLE OF GOVERNOR KING”

Environmental Health and Protection Memories

@UNM Law School, September 11, 2009

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

Larry Gordon, MS, MPH, DHL, DEAAS

1674 Tierra del Rio NW

Albuquerque, NM 87107

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

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

September 9^th 2009

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

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 HORSE.com

Diseases Potentially Spread from Horses to Humans Via Bites Reviewed

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

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

 ‘Emerging zoonotic epidemics in the interconnected global community’

–       A Veterinary Record publication, November 26, 2005

By:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 7, 2007

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

“ONE HEALTH” … in Action!  [#1]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please click PDF to view entire news release.

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

PMID: 19660428 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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

Human Brucella canis outbreak linked to infection in dogs.

PMID: 19653929 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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

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

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

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

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

Short report     ]

Short report    

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

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

Short report    

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

Others of One Health-Public Health Interest:

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

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

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

An opinion…

Prepared for the One Health Initiative website April 5, 2009

Neglected “Other” One Health Heroes!

Bruce Kaplan, DVM

The International One Health movement generally puts focus on the crucial public health aspects of this life protecting-life saving concept.  The physicians, veterinarians and other health scientists/professionals associated with zoonotic disease prevention and control are indeed essential for our global health.   These professionals are important in solving many of the riddles associated with biosecurity and threats of bioterrorism too.

However, One Health also encompasses cancer research, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, orthopedic prosthetic device advances, vaccine development, environmental health, plant health etc.  Without including these health and health care concerns … “One Health” becomes “Some Health”.

• In the 1970s and early 1980s the 20^th century public health community recognized and promoted this concept (under the heading of ‘One Medicine’) without any participation by or recognition of their counterpart clinical-colleagues that are equally important. 
• Private practitioners of human and veterinary medicine continue to be largely unaware of One Health and not participatory to any noticeable extent. They have therefore not expressed their powerful voice on the issue. 
• The knowledgeable clinical health/academic communities of veterinary medicine and medicine have not, to date, acknowledged that many of their visionary “other” colleagues are a crucial part of the One Health big picture.
• Limited input has evolved from environmental health and plant health experts.
• Most are unaware of and/or do not grasp the significance of including plant health. 

 To name a small number (there are more throughout the world!) of these unheralded “other” One Health heroes in the U.S.:

Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

1275 York Ave (Z-1462)

New York, NY 10021

wolchokj@mskcc.org

Philip J. Bergman, DVM, MS, PhD

Diplomate ACVIM, Oncology

Chief Medical Officer

BrightHeart Veterinary Centers

80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110

Armonk, NY  10504 (USA)

pbergman@brightheartvet.com

Robert D. Cardiff, MD, PhD

Center for Comparative Medicine

University of California, Davis

County Road 98 and Hutchison Drive

Davis CA 95616 (USA)

rdcardiff@ucdavis.edu

Doug Thamm, DVM, Dipl. ACVIM (Oncology)

Colorado State University

Assistant Professor

College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Department of Clinical Sciences

Fort Collins, CO 80523

Steven Dow, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVIM

Colorado State University

Associate Professor

College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

Department of Pathology

Fort Collins, CO 80523

Steven.Dow@ColoState.edu

James (Jimi) L. Cook, DVM, PhD, Diplomate ACVS

William C. Allen Endowed Scholar for Orthopaedic Research

Director, Comparative Orthopaedic Laboratory

University of Missouri

900 East Campus Drive

Columbia, MO 65211

cookjl@missouri.edu 

Thomas P. Monath, MD, Partner

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Pandemic & Biodefense Fund

21 Finn Road

Harvard MA 01451

tmonath@kpcb.com

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

Director, Division of Environmental Health

Florida State Health Department

Tallahassee, FL (USA)

Lisa_Conti@doh.state.fl.us

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

dfranz@mriresearch.org

Jacqueline Fletcher, PhD

Sarkeys Distinguished Professor

Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology

Oklahoma State University

Stillwater, OK 74078

Jacqueline.fletcher@okstate.edu

Submissions of One Health opinions (letters of commentary) for publication consideration are encouraged and welcomed.

[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]

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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
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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