“Good surveillance does not necessarily ensure the making of the right decisions, but it reduces the chances of wrong ones.”

Dr. Alexander D. Langmuir [MD, MPH], 1963 - Founder of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Epidemic Intelligence Service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemic_Intelligence_Service

CDC Estimates of Foodborne Illness in the United States

Foodborne Illness Surveillance, Response, and Data Systems

http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/surveillance-systems.html

Submitted to One Health Initiative website August 6, 2013

Hospital personnel need greater awareness of animal-to-human disease threats

The Royal Society of Medicine - Managing patients for zoonotic disease in hospitals, Warwick, C. & Corning, S. (2013).  J R Soc Med Sh Rep., 4: 1–9. DOI: 10.1177/2042533313490287

Clifford Warwick, PGDipMedSci, CBiol, CSci, EurProBiol, FOCAE, FSB

Consultant Biologist & Medical Scientist

Riverside House, River Lawn Road, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1EP, UK

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Susan Corning, BA, MSc, BVSc, MRCVS, FRSPH

Director, Collaborating for Global Health

Bologna, Italy

www.collab4globalhealth.com

dr.susan.corning@collab4globalhealth.com

“Noscomial disease transmission is a true “One Health” issue, and there is an urgent need for the medical and veterinary professions to collaboratively plan to ensure that hospital staff can implement simple and effective measures to prevent and control this transmission.”

Please see: http://shr.sagepub.com/content/4/8/2042533313490287.full.pdf+html

One Health “a possible way forward”... Andrew Read, PhD, Pennsylvania State University (USA)

Ethical considerations in an era of mass drug administration

Parasites & Vectors 2013, 6:234 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-6-234

Barney Wharam Barney.Wharam@bristol.ac.uk

Luke Lazarou Luke.Lazarou@bristol.ac.uk

Abstract

In a Plenary debate at the 51st Spring meeting of the British Society of Parasitology, Bristol,

UK, April 8–11, 2013, the bioethicist James Wilson used the value of a life in the present and

future to question the effectiveness of current health strategies.

“...The emerging problem of antibiotic resistance was used as a current, real world example of drug resistance

by both Wilson and Andrew Read (Pennsylvania State University).

Read illustrated the problems of drug resistance through his recent visit to a Michigan

hospital, where patients are dying from “superbugs” - bacteria that are resistant to many or all

antibiotics that are available. Patients alive now are put into jeopardy because of actions from

the past. Antibiotic resistance demonstrates how past health care policies did not sufficiently

account for the evolution of parasites and therefore discounted the value of future lives

inappropriately.

Read argued that there is a lack of research on how to use drugs whilst minimising the

evolution of drug resistance. Drug resistance is also a key issue in veterinary science and the

fields of human and veterinary medicine have become so distinct that veterinary studies are

rarely used to inform human medicine. Movements such as The One Health Initiative

(http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/index.php) were highlighted by Read as a possible way

forward. The initiative aims to improve global healthcare through interdisciplinary

collaborations. ...”

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/pdf/1756-3305-6-234.pdf

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First Published April 2012 / Revision July 2013

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*Dr. Murphy is a valued One Health supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php and http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/endorsements.php.

International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) NEWS...January 28, 2013

“The UK’s Institute for Development Studies (IDS) has published a 4-page Rapid Response Briefing titled ’Zoonoses: From panic to planning’.”

“Veterinary epidemiologist Delia Grace, who is based at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), along with other members of a Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium, based at the STEPS Centre at IDS, c0-authored the document.”

“The briefing recommends that policymakers take a ‘One-Health’ approach to managing zoonotic diseases.”

“‘A new, integrated “One Health” approach to zoonoses that moves away from top-down disease-focused intervention is urgently needed. With this, we can put people first by factoring development implications into disease preparation and response strategies – and so move from panic to planning.”

Please read complete article at: http://www.ilri.org/ilrinews/index.php/archives/10322?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ilriblogposts+%28ILRI+Blog+Postings%29&goback=%2Egde_4034930_member_259781829

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

Volume 19, Number 6—June 2013

Koplan JP, Butler-Jones D, Tsang T, Yu W. Public health lessons from severe acute respiratory syndrome a decade later. Emerg Infect Dis [Internet]. 2013 Jun [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1906.121426

Perspective

Public Health Lessons from Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome a Decade Later

“During and following the outbreak, 8 broader national and international policy, operational, and systems needs were identified by public health officials. The first need was stronger and more integrated coordination between animal and human public health. This need is currently being addressed in One Health efforts by the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Public Health Agency of Canada (3). ...”

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/6/12-1426_article.htm?s_cid=eid-gDev-email

Alberta, CANADA

Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA) is inviting proposals for funding of its “One Health” initiative to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment.

See “One Health roadmap” http://www.alma.alberta.ca/cs/groups/alma/documents/document/mdaw/mda2/~edisp/agucmint-006407.pdf

“Other One Health Initiatives in the U.S. –See Page 7

• The One Health Commission, a joint initiative of the American Veterinary

Medical Association and American Medical Association

• The One Health Initiative’s website, a global repository for news and

information pertaining to One Health

• The One Health Initiative’s informative document One Health: A New Professional Imperative, a key document guiding One Health efforts”

For more details visit  http://alma.alberta.ca/cs/groups/alma/documents/document/bnqt/mji2/~edisp/agucmint-226038.pdf.

Permission to post granted July 23, 2013 by:

David Chalack, DVM

Board Chair

Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency (ALMA)

email  dchalack@altagenetics.com

cell 1-403-585-2455

New Research from Kansas State University on The Novel H7N9 Influenza A Virus

Interviewed by David Keh, July 2, 2013

As part of DugDug’s ongoing series on leading researchers in veterinary science, we have had the unique privilege of interviewing Dr. Juergen A. Richt, a Regents Distinguished Professor and Kansas Bioscience Eminent Scholar at Kansas State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in the Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology. He also serves as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) which is now working with Principal Investigators in 16 different universities, as well as linking to various industrial partners. Dr Richt comes from a farming family (dairy) in Southern Germany and received his Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from the University of Munich and his PhD in Virology and Immunology from the University of Giessen, also in Germany. He completed his postdoctoral/residency studies at The Johns Hopkins University. He was then a Veterinary Medical Officer at the National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, where he worked on both swine and prion diseases. His latest paper, titled “The Novel H7N9 Influenza A Virus: Its Present Impact and Indeterminate Future”was recently published in the journal Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. The paper studies the life and molecular evolution of the influenza virus. ...

Please read entire article by clicking on [HTM –view-] or this link http://www.dugdug.com/Kansas-State-Research-H7N9

 Note: Permission to post on One Health Initiative website granted July 15, 2013 by: David Keh, founder of http://www.dugdug.com/.

Free Webinar notice: Cytology in the Diagnosis of Infection - THURSDAY 1st AUGUST, 2013 8pm

 “Antimicrobial resistance is now recognised as one of the major medical challenges in the 21st century. The potential impact of increasing antimicrobial resistance on the treatment of man and animals is devastating. It is vital therefore that the medical and veterinary professions and the pharmaceutical industry work together to inform, encourage and facilitate the responsible use of antimicrobials. ...” Speaker: Tim Nuttall, BSc, BVSc, CertVD, PhD, CBiol, MSB, MRCVS

 Please see attached PDF

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