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Case report: West-Nile virus infection in two Dutch travellers returning from Israel |
| Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010 |
| Monday, October 11, 2010. |
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010
Case report: West-Nile virus infection in two Dutch travellers returning from Israel
N Aboutaleb1, M FC Beersma2, H F Wunderink3, A CTM Vossen3, L G Visser1
1. Department of Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
2. Department of Virology, Erasmus University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, Netherlands
3. Department of Virology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
We report about West Nile virus (WNV) infections in a symptomatic traveller returning from Israel and in her asymptomatic travel companion. Knowledge of the current epidemiological situation in Israel from where WNV cases were reported recently enabled a rapid diagnosis. The described cases serve as a reminder for physicians to consider WNV in the diagnosis of patients returning from areas with potential circulation of the virus.
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http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19649
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Virginia Tech Professor [veterinarian] discovers new TB pathogen |
| vetsweb.com - October 4, 2010 |
| Thursday, October 07, 2010. |
vetsweb.com
Virginia Tech Professor [veterinarian] discovers new TB pathogen
Oct 4 2010
Kathleen Alexander [DVM, PhD], associate professor of wildlife in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, discovered a novel tuberculosis (TB) species in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. …
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http://www.vetsweb.com/news/virginia-tech-professor-discovers-new-tb-pathogen-1497.html
“Dr. Alexander's main research deals with the human – biodiversity interface at the individual as well as population and landscape levels. She is using a multidisciplinary approach to increase our ability to manage and maintain healthy ecosystems that support both biodiversity and human populations. The focal areas of her research are the human biodiversity interface as related to either infectious diseases or ecosystem management. She is examining changes in human health in Africa as related to emerging infectious diseases with the goal of understanding pathogens and processes of change in multi-host ecosystems. In addition, she is identifying the spatial and temporal dynamics of human-wildlife conflict at the landscape level using remote sensing and modeling to identify the predicative determinants and processes that shape species distribution and conflict incidence.” Please see http://www.fishwild.vt.edu/faculty/alexander.htm. |
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West Nile virus: the need to strengthen preparedness in Europe - August 26, 2010 |
| Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010 |
| Tuesday, October 05, 2010. |
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010
Editorials
West Nile virus: the need to strengthen preparedness in Europe
H Zeller1, A Lenglet1, W Van Bortel1
1. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Citation style for this article: Zeller H, Lenglet A, Van Bortel W. West Nile virus: the need to strengthen preparedness in Europe. Euro Surveill. 2010;15(34):pii=19647. Available online: http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19647
“The ongoing outbreak of West Nile virus (WNV) infections in humans in Greece described in this issue of Eurosurveillance is a timely reminder that WNV is a re-emerging pathogen in Europe [1]. So far, WNV has been documented in animals and humans in several countries across Europe, mainly in central Europe and in the Mediterranean region. Over the last 15 years, outbreaks in horses and/or humans were reported from Romania, Hungary and Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece [2]. “ …
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http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19647 |
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Ongoing outbreak of West Nile virus infections in humans in Greece, July - August 2010 |
| Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010 |
| Tuesday, September 28, 2010. |
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 34, 26 August 2010
Ongoing outbreak of West Nile virus infections in humans in Greece, July - August 2010
A Papa1, K Danis, A Baka2, A Bakas3, G Dougas2, T Lytras2, G Theocharopoulos2, D Chrysagis3, E Vassiliadou3, F Kamaria3, A Liona2, K Mellou2, G Saroglou2, T Panagiotopoulos2,4
1. Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses, First Department of Microbiology, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
2. Hellenic Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO), Athens, Greece
3. Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
4. National School of Public Health, Athens, Greece
Between early July and 22 August 2010, 81 cases of West Nile neuroinvasive disease were reported in the region of Central Macedonia, northern Greece. The median age of cases was 70 years. Encephalitis, meningoencephalitis or aseptic meningitis occurred mainly in patients aged 50 years or older. This is the first time that West Nile virus (WNV) infection has been documented in humans in Greece. Enhanced surveillance and mosquito control measures have been implemented.
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Center integrates human, animal, environmental health - September 16, 2010 |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) |
| Wednesday, September 22, 2010. |
Public release date: 16-Sep-2010
Contact: Diana Yates
diya@illinois.edu
217-333-5802 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Center integrates human, animal, environmental health
CHAMPAIGN, lll. — The Center for One Health Illinois, established at the University of Illinois last year with a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will receive another $500,000 in grants over several years from the USDA to pursue its mission of fostering collaborations and the free flow of information among those in the fields of medicine, public health, the environment and agriculture.
The center has three areas of engagement: educating a new cadre of cross-trained public health practitioners, working with public health agencies to improve disease surveillance, and fostering collaborative research.
In 2004, the College of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois in Chicago established a joint degree program that allows students to complete a master's degree in public health concurrent with their studies for a doctorate in veterinary medicine. The DVM/MPH program has enrolled 33 students so far, four of whom have completed both degrees, and is part of a national trend that recognizes the interdependence of human and animal health.
A growing awareness of zoonotic diseases, which originate in animals but can spread to humans, has contributed to this trend. More than 60 percent of the 1,400 pathogens that affect people originate, or are amplified, in other animals.
Although many of these diseases must be reported to local and state health departments when humans are infected, veterinarians are not alerted to their occurrence, said John Herrmann, a professor of clinical veterinary medicine who directs the DVM/MPH program at Illinois. Similarly, veterinarians report outbreaks of many of the same diseases to agricultural officials, but those officials have no system for passing the information to public health agencies.
"The state agriculture department and the state health department are only a few blocks from each other in Springfield," Herrmann said. "But we still don't have an integrated surveillance system for sharing information."
Herrmann led the effort to create the Center for One Health Illinois, which is tackling this gap in surveillance by recruiting experts to build a system for sharing environmental and health data. Earlier this year the center brought potential partners together for a conference. Among the many ideas shared, participants discussed the barriers to quick and efficient data sharing.
An outcome of that discussion was the creation of a demonstration project to develop an integrated surveillance system. The project involves experts at the local health department, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at Illinois and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
The center also has funded a few small-scale research projects. These include an initiative aimed at comparing the ecological impacts of small and large dairy operations; a geographic and ecological analysis of rabies in bats in Illinois; a study of microbial contamination in relation to food establishments with and without health code violations in Champaign and Urbana; and a study of human and animal trichinella infections on small hog farms in Romania. The center seeks to fund new studies that integrate human, animal, agricultural and/or ecosystem health.
The USDA funding has allowed the center to also "increase the public health exposure of our students," Herrmann said.
It funds externships for some DVM/MPH students at the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration and various other federal and state agencies. It also supplements course budgets so students can do more site visits and participate in outbreak investigations. For example, Herrmann recently took students to a poultry operation in northwest Illinois to do some environmental sampling. Other students traveled to Germany to visit and learn about a foreign animal disease facility and "the German equivalent of our CDC," Herrmann said.
In a world of increasing environmental pressures and burgeoning agricultural needs, Herrmann said, human communities can no longer afford to segregate their understanding of these influences on human health.
"Many of the determinants and contributing factors to human health are environmental in nature, including how our food is produced," Herrmann said. "So the safety of food and other consumer products is really important, as is the sustainability of those production systems. Emerging diseases, whether infectious or non-infectious, are also often associated with changes in our natural or built environment. We need to look at all these things, how they're all interrelated."
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Editor's note: To contact Dr. John Herrmann, e-mail jah1110@illinois.edu.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/uoia-cih091610.php |
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Emerging Infectious Disease Leads to Rapid Population Declines of Common British Birds |
| PLoS ONE 5(8): e12215. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012215 |
| Monday, September 20, 2010. |
Emerging Infectious Disease Leads to Rapid Population Declines of Common British Birds. PLoS ONE 5(8): e12215. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012215
Robinson RA, Lawson B, Toms MP, Peck KM, Kirkwood JK, et al. (2010)
ABSTRACT: Emerging infectious diseases are increasingly cited as threats to wildlife, livestock and humans alike. They can threaten geographically isolated or critically endangered wildlife populations; however, relatively few studies have clearly demonstrated the extent to which emerging diseases can impact populations of common wildlife species. Here, we report the impact of an emerging protozoal disease on British populations of greenfinch Carduelis chloris and chaffinch Fringilla coelebs, two of the most common birds in Britain. Morphological and molecular analyses showed this to be due to Trichomonas gallinae. Trichomonosis emerged as a novel fatal disease of finches in Britain in 2005 and rapidly became epidemic within greenfinch, and to a lesser extent chaffinch, populations in 2006. By 2007, breeding populations of greenfinches and chaffinches in the geographic region of highest disease incidence had decreased by 35% and 21% respectively, representing mortality in excess of half a million birds. In contrast, declines were less pronounced or absent in these species in regions where the disease was found in intermediate or low incidence. Also, populations of dunnock Prunella modularis, which similarly feeds in gardens, but in which T. gallinae was rarely recorded, did not decline. This is the first trichomonosis epidemic reported in the scientific literature to negatively impact populations of free-ranging non-columbiform species, and such levels of mortality and decline due to an emerging infectious disease are unprecedented in British wild bird populations. This disease emergence event demonstrates the potential for a protozoan parasite to jump avian host taxonomic groups with dramatic effect over a short time period.
Read more: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0012215 |
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Value of syndromic surveillance in monitoring a focal waterborne outbreak due to an unusual Cryptosporidium genotype in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, June - July 2008 |
| Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 33, 19 August 2010 |
| Friday, September 17, 2010. |
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 33, 19 August 2010
Surveillance and outbreak reports
Value of syndromic surveillance in monitoring a focal waterborne outbreak due to an unusual Cryptosporidium genotype in Northamptonshire, United Kingdom, June - July 2008
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19643
S Smith 1, A J Elliot1, C Mallaghan2, D Modha3, J Hippisley-Cox4, S Large5, M Regan6, G E Smith1
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Laboratory-based surveillance for Cryptosporidium in France, 2006–2009 |
| Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 33, 19 August 2010 |
| Tuesday, September 14, 2010. |
Eurosurveillance, Volume 15, Issue 33, 19 August 2010
Surveillance and outbreak reports
Laboratory-based surveillance for Cryptosporidium in France, 2006–2009
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleId=19642
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