Emerging Threats to One Health: Implications to U.S. National Security

University of Missouri – Reynolds Alumni Center… April 12, 2011

Emerging Threats to One Health: Implications to U.S. National Security

·                         A 2011 Intelligence Community (IC) Centers for Academic Excellence (CAE) Regional Colloquium

·                          Hosted by the Office of the Assistant to the Provost for Strategic Opportunities at the University of Missouri in partnership with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Intelligence Community (IC) Centers for Academic Excellence (CAE) program

 Please see http://muconf.missouri.edu/odni AND http://muconf.missouri.edu/odni/Registration.html

Parasites & Vectors, Thematic Series

“Elimination of Parasitic Infections” – Please read more:

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/series/elimination_para_inf

Also see: One Health parasitology editorial http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/qc/content/2/1/36 in P&V, Published August 12, 2009

Zoonotic helminths affecting the human eye

Domenico Otranto, DVM, PhD and Mark L. Eberhard, PhD 

Parasites & Vectors 2011, 4:41doi:10.1186/1756-3305-4-41

Nowaday, zoonoses are an important cause of human parasitic diseases worldwide and a major threat to the socio-economic development, mainly in developing countries. Importantly, zoonotic helminths that affect human eyes (HIE) may cause blindness with severe socio-economic consequences to human communities. These infections include nematodes, cestodes and trematodes, which may be transmitted by vectors (dirofilariais, onchocerciasis, thelaziasis), food consumption (sparganosis, trichinellosis) and those acquired indirectly from the environment (ascariasis, echinococcosis, fascioliasis). Adult and/or larval stages of HIE may localize into human ocular tissues externally (i.e., lachrymal glands, eyelids, conjunctiva sacs) or into the ocular globe (i.e., intravitreous retina, anterior and or posterior chamber) causing symptoms due to the parasitic localization in the eyes or to the immune reaction they elicit in the host. Unfortunately, data on HIE are scant and mostly limited to case reports from different countries. The biology and epidemiology of the most frequently reported HIE are discussed as well as clinical description of the diseases, diagnostic considerations and video clips on their presentation and surgical treatment.

PLEASE READ MORE: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/4/1/41

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists 

The unsolved anthrax murder mystery

By Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP | March 23, 2011

“The US public health system has serious vulnerabilities, and one major problem is identifying and responding to public health crimes.

                “The 10th Amendment of the US Constitution grants states the legal authority and responsibility for public health, but the Constitution was written a century before the germ theory of disease was conceived of by Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch. The framers of the Constitution had no concept of microbial pathogens; in the eighteenth century, all medicine had to offer was leeches and lancets.          __________________________________________

The investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks is a case in point. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently published its report on the scientific methodologies used in the FBI investigation into the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people. The NAS committee of experts, which was asked to review only the unclassified scientific aspects of the investigation, concluded that despite the FBI's years of work, the origins of the Bacillus anthracis spores used in the attacks could not be determined with certainty. …”

Please read more:  http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/laura-h-kahn/the-unsolved-anthrax-murder-mystery or see attachment.

Maryland (USA) Department of Agriculture Launches One Health Bulletin

Maryland One Health Bulletin

Maryland One Health Bulletin, "One Health", as defined by the American Veterinary Medical Association, is the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines - working locally, nationally, and globally - to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment. This Bulletin is intended to provide up to date, near real-time reports of zoonotic and other animal diseases of concern in Maryland whether in domestic livestock, poultry, companion or exotic animals, native wildlife, or humans, for the purpose of promoting rapid detection, evaluation and control of these diseases state and world-wide.

Read More: http://www.mda.state.md.us/animal_health/diseases/bulletin.php

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

Volume 17, Number 3–March 2011

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/index.htm

Florida Department of Health’s Environmental Health Division

 Publishes One Health Newsletter Winter Issue

Please see attachment and links below:

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

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OHNLwinter2011.pdf

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

Volume 17, Number 3–March 2011

Photo Quiz

The sixth installment of the Photo Quiz series written by Myron G. Schultz, DVM, MD for Emerging Infectious Diseases has been published in the March 2011 issue. This issue is devoted to tuberculosis and the Photo Quiz is about the man who discovered the organism that causes tuberculosis. It is available at: http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/17/3/547_intro.htm

University of Missouri Features – One Health-One Medicine

The Magazine of the MIZZOU Alumni Association (USA)

http://mizzoumag.missouri.edu/features.php

College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences
Colorado State University

  February 2011

   Colorado State University, School of Public Health, National Park Service Collaborate to Promote One Health

“The National Park Service has provided $80,100 in a cooperative agreement to Colorado State University and the Colorado School of Public Health to promote One Health across National Park Service programs.

The concept of One Health advocates cooperation among human and veterinary medicine and wildlife biology to combat zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that can spread between animals and people, and to promote the health of all species and the environment. The partnership will build collaborations among public health, veterinary medicine, wildlife biology and environmental health experts at the National Park Service, Colorado State University and Colorado School of Public Health. …”

Please read more at: http://www.cvmbs.colostate.edu/ns/pubs/einsight/2011/february/one_health.aspx