One Health News

                  New ProMED-mail access featuring One Health items

Co-Founder of ProMED-mail Joins One Health Initiative Website

                              http://www.onehealthinitiative.com  

The ‘Kahn-Kaplan-Monath’ One Health team is proud to announce that John (Jack) Woodall, MA, PhD has agreed to be the ProMED-mail “Contents Manager/Editor” for a newly established ProMED-mail page on the One Health Initiative website.  One Health related articles will be featured exclusively.  Dr. Woodall, like Drs. Tom Monath, Bruce Kaplan [general Contents Manager/Editor] and Laura Kahn, will graciously be working pro bono for the benefit of advancing the One Health movement.

Early on, the physicians and other medical, veterinary medical and allied health scientific professionals at ProMED-mail provided and advocated support for the One Health concept.  We are all grateful for their longstanding support, valued advocacy and cooperation.

Dr. Woodall, in addition to being a co-founder of ProMED-mail and an eminent virologist, is currently:

John (Jack) Woodall, MA, PhD, Director (retd.)
Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Institute of Medical Biochemistry

Center for Health Sciences

Federal University

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Among Dr. Woodall’s many posts held over the years:

2002 - 2008      Web Site Editor & Council member (ex officio), American Society  of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene.

2004 - present     Biological Weapons Working Group of Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation,

Washington DC, USA.

2004 - 2006      Scientific Advisory Board, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington DC, USA.

2007 - present     Editorial Advisory Board, The Scientist magazine

2008 - present     Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Medical Chemical, Biological & Radiological Defense.

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

                WWW.rabiescontrol.net/ARCnewsletter11.pdf

                         Articles include rabies updates from Kwa-Zulu Natal, Mozambique and Brazil, oral vaccination in wildife in the US, 
rabies in Ethiopian wolves and vaccine regimen. There is also news about World Rabies Day, the student essay 
prize winner and recent developments from the Alliance, so please take a look. We hope you find it useful.
 Provided by:

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

Nature’s perfect food isn’t perfect

By Jan M. Sargeant, DVM, PhD

From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

January 29, 2009

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090128.wcomilk29/BNStory/specialComment/home

Provided by:

J.E.B. Graham, DVM

Toronto, Ontario

Canada

Author of the book “SOW’S EAR to SILK PURSE”

Anecdotes from the Life of a Veterinarian

January 14, 2009

Tuberculosis in a dog in Ontario, Canada

Summary:

A report in the latest newsletter from the University of Guelph Animal Health Laboratory describes a case of tuberculosis (TB) in a pet dog. The dog was a seven-year-old Bichon Frise that had an abdominal mass, low-grade fever, nasal discharge...

View the full post by clicking this link:

http://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2009/01/articles/animals/dogs/tuberculosis-in-a-dog-in-ontario/

Provided by:

Peter Conlon, DVM, PhD, MEd

Associate Dean, Students

Ontario Veterinary College

Guelph, Ontario, Canada NIG 2W1

Bird flu found in British Columbia turkey farm

This is the first report of confirmed H5N1 in North America.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/397386_birdflu25.html

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

            January 15, 2009 

          “Modeling disease spread” 

http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/modeling-disease-spread

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP

      Research Scholar

        Program on Science and Global Security

        Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
        Princeton University

January 12, 2009

ONE HEALTH NEWSLETTER - 2009 Winter Issue Published …

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

The One Health Newsletter’s 2009 Winter Issue is now published online.  It contains a variety of interesting and pertinent One Health articles.

Among items of note is a “One Health Steering Committee Update” by Carina Blackmore, DVM, PhD.  Dr. Blackmore is Chair of the One Health Initiative Steering Committee’s Communications workgroup, a member of the One Health Newsletter editorial board, and Florida’s (USA) State Public Health Veterinarian.

Mary Echols, DVM, MPH, Editor of the One Health Newsletter pointed out:

“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. ” 

In addition to accessing the Newsletter via the above Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the Publication page http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications.php of this website presents it in full.

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

Supercourse Library of Lectures

The original power point slide presentation of Thomas P. Monath, MD to the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) in March, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) entitled  "One Medicine/One Health": Personal Reflections of a True Believer” is now posted in the Supercourse Library of Lectures and may be uploaded to the following address:

http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec33431/

These lectures are available to a worldwide student audience with the Global Supercourse.

Call for Papers - The 59th Annual James H. Steele Conference on Diseases in Nature Transmissible to Man  -  June 2 - 5, 2009

All information relevant to the conference is available at:

http://diseasesinnature.googlepages.com