One Health Publications

National study on the prioritization of zoonotic diseases in the United States

September 19, 2011—The following message is being circulated on behalf of the Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses (CPHAZ) Research Team at the Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, ON, Canada by the One Health Initiative Team. We encourage you to consider participation and strongly support the efforts of CPHAZ:

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Important New - September 2011

Catalog of One Health Activities and Programs (USA)

Provided by:

Will Hueston, DVM, PhD

Executive Director, Global Initiative for Food Systems Leadership

Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine and

     Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health

University of Minnesota

St. Paul, MN (USA)

 Tel:  612-625-5900

Fax: 612-624-4906

 Email:  huest001@umn.edu

Website:  www.foodsystemsleadership.org

Environmental levels of the antiviral Oseltamivir induce development of resistance mutation H274Y in influenza A/H1N1 virus in mallards

Josef D. Järhult 1, Shaman Muradrasoli 2, John Wahlgren 3, Hanna Söderström 4, Goran Orozovic 5, Gunnar Gunnarsson 5,6, Caroline Bröjer 7,8, Neus Latorre-Margalef5, Jerker Fick 4, Roman Grabic 4,9, Johan Lennerstrand 10, Jonas Waldenström 5, Åke Lundkvist 3, Björn Olsen 1,5

PLoS ONE, Monday 12 September 2011 – OPEN ACCESS

Abstract

“Oseltamivir (Tamiflu®) is the most widely used drug against influenza infections and is extensively stockpiled worldwide as part of pandemic preparedness plans. However, resistance is a growing problem and in 2008–2009, seasonal human influenza A/H1N1 virus strains in most parts of the world carried the mutation H274Y in the neuraminidase gene which causes resistance to the drug. The active metabolite of oseltamivir, oseltamivir carboxylate (OC), is poorly degraded in sewage treatment plants and surface water and has been detected in aquatic environments where the natural influenza reservoir, dabbling ducks, can be exposed to the substance. … “

Please read more http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024742 or click on attachment.

FDA unveils foodborne illness outbreak response network

 “Sep 14, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it has established a new streamlined system to respond more efficiently and quickly to human and animal foodborne illness outbreaks.”  Please Read CIDRAP article...   

http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/sep1411network-br.html

Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) – University of Florida (USA) Foodsafety

Thursday, April 28, 2011  

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (USA) – Researchers at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute have identified the Top 10 riskiest combinations of foods and disease-causing microorganisms, providing an important tool for food safety officials charged with protecting consumers from these costly and potentially life-threatening bugs.

Please see http://www.epi.ufl.edu/?q=RankingTheRisks or click on attachment

Important Essay on the History of One Medicine published in the United Kingdom (soon to be published in the USA): Contained within "The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine"

Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?

            “University librarians may well be interested in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, already available in the United Kingdom and to be published in the United States on November 1st, 2011. Although expensive at $150, this innovative 672 page survey edited by Mark Jackson, contains an important essay by Robert G. W. Kirk and Michael Worboys, “Medicine and Species: One Medicine, One History?” which proposes “re-conceiving medicine as a set of knowledge-practices grounded in interspecies interactions.” In brief, the authors (a Wellcome Research Fellow and the Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester) contend that the history of medicine “should become the history of one medicine” because of “the complex interactions between species that have been present throughout history”. ...”

Please read more by clicking on attached PDF

Book Review provided to One Health Initiative Website September 6, 2011 by:

Robert E. Kahn, PhD

Educational Consultant

Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD)

Kansas State University

Manhattan, Kansas   

Progress towards the eradication of Tsetse from the Loos islands, Guinea

Moise S Kagbadouno¹ , Mamadou Camara¹ , Jérémy Bouyer² , Fabrice Courtin³ , Mory F Onikoyamou ⁴ , Chris J Schofield⁵ and Philippe Solano³

¹  Programme National de Lutte contre la THA, Ministère de la Santé, Conakry, Guinée

²  Cirad, UMR CIRAD-INRA CMAEE, ISRA-LNERV, Service de Parasitologie, Dakar-Hann, Sénégal

³  IRD, UMR IRD-CIRAD 177, CIRDES Bobo-Dioulasso BP 454, Burkina Faso

⁴  Direction de la Santé animale, Ministère de l'élevage, Conakry, Guinée

⁵  LSHTM (ITD), London WC1E7HT, UK

author email corresponding author email

Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:18doi:10.1186/1756-3305-4-18 – Published February 10, 2011 – Open Access

Background

The tsetse fly Glossina palpalis gambiensis is the main vector of sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis - HAT) in West Africa, in particular in littoral Guinea where this disease is currently very active. The Loos islands constitute a small archipelago some 5 km from mainland Guinea, where G. p. gambiensis is well known as a nuisance and potential disease vector by inhabitants of the three main islands, Fotoba, Room, and Kassa. The National Control Program against HAT of Guinea has decided to eradicate tsetse in Loos islands in order to sustainably protect humans and economic activities. After baseline data collection, tsetse control began on the islands in 2006. On each of the three islands a specific combination of control methods was implemented according to the entomological situation found.

Results

Starting densities before control operations were 10, 3 and 1 tsetse/trap/day in Kassa, Room and Fotoba respectively, but by July 2010, tsetse were no longer caught in any of the sentinel traps used for monitoring. The reduction rate was faster where several control methods were implemented as a combination (impregnated traps and targets ITT, selective groundspraying, epicutaneous insecticide treatment of pigs, and impregnated fences around pig pens), whereas it was slower when ITT were used as the only control method.

Conclusions

This 100% suppression is a promising step in the eradication process, but G. p. gambiensis may still occur at very low, undetectable, densities on the archipelago. Next step will consist in assessing a 0.05 probability of tsetse absence to ascertain a provisional eradication status. Throughout these operations, a key factor has been the involvement of local teams and local communities without whom such results would be impossible to obtain. Work will continue thanks to the partners involved until total eradication of the tsetse on Loos islands can be declared.

Please read more: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/4/1/18

Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations News Release

Bird Flu rears its head again

Please read more: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/87196/icode/ or see attachment

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

How a deadly E. coli outbreak revealed Germany’s dysfunctional public health system

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | 24 August 2011

“The plot just kept getting thicker. First, the culprit was cucumbers and tomatoes from Spain. Then it was bean sprouts from northern Germany. Then it wasn't. Then it was bean sprouts from northern Germany again -- this time, an organic farm. Finally, the perpetrator appeared to be imported fenugreek seeds from Egypt. ...”

Please read more: http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/how-deadly-e-coli-outbreak-revealed-germany%E2%80%99s-dysfunctional-publ or see attachment.

Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences

One Health—One Medicine: unifying human and animal medicine within an evolutionary paradigm

Article first published online: 8 AUG 2011 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06138.x © 2011 New York Academy of Sciences.

By Russell W. Currier, DVM, MPH and James H. Steele, DVM, MPH^,

Readers have free complimentary full text access to this article via http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06138.x/full or see attachment.

It shall be available through February 2012.

Permission graciously granted on August 23, 2011 by:

Selene Carey

Senior Editor, Journals

John Wiley & Sons

111 River Street

Mail Stop 8-01

Hoboken, NJ 07030

Note: The One Health Initiative team expresses gratitude to John Wiley & Sons’ generous and extraordinary gesture of making special provisions for us to post this article free of charge to all who access and view the One Health Initiative website through February 2012 and this link.  We were advised by Senior Editor Selene Carey that they recognize and appreciate our pro bono educational mission of helping to promote One Health.