Focusing on neglected zoonoses

Doble L, Fèvre EM

Vet Rec. 2010 May 1;166(18):546-7.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20435977

Abstract

Two tenets at the core of the One Health concept are the belief that human and animal health are irrevocably entwined and that the improvement of both requires close collaboration between the medical and veterinary professions with support from allied disciplines. An ongoing Wellcome Trust-supported project in Western Kenya - the 'People, Animals and their Zoonoses' (PAZ) project - holds the One Health theme at its centre as it endeavours to study neglected zoonoses and provide policy-relevant information about their epidemiology. Veterinarian Lian Doble and the project's leader Eric Fèvre explain why this study is so important

Provided by One Health advocate:

Diane A. Fagen, Librarian

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA)

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Legislation envisions a Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) at Department of Homeland Security (USA)

GSN Magazine – Government Security News

Mon, 2010-04-26 03:30 PM

By: Jacob Goodwin

http://www.gsnmagazine.com/article/20591/legislation_envisions_chief_veterinary_officer_dhs

Sri Lanka – Veterinary Epidemiological Bulletin

Volume 3. No. 1.  July-December 2009

Provided by June 26, 2010:

EDITOR,

Ravi Bandara Dissanayake, BVSc, MVSc, Attorney-at-Law

Commissioner for Oaths
National Veterinary Specialist/Sri Lanka

UN-FAO

Lack of association between the occurrence of Crohn’s disease and occupational exposure to dairy and beef cattle herds infected with Micobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

Journal of Dairy Science – Vol. 93 No. 6:2371-2376

American Dairy Science Association, 2010

Provided by:

Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD

Department of Veterinary Micobiology and Preventive Medicine

College of Veterinary Medicine

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa 50014

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

Volume 16, Number 6–June 2010 - http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/6/986.htm

Dispatch

Novel Betaherpesvirus in Bats

Shumpei Watanabe,¹ Ken Maeda,¹ Kazuo Suzuki, Naoya Ueda, Koichiro Iha, Satoshi Taniguchi, Hiroshi Shimoda, Kentaro Kato, Yasuhiro Yoshikawa, Shigeru Morikawa, Ichiro Kurane, Hiroomi Akashi, and Tetsuya Mizutani
Author affiliations: The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (S. Watanabe, N. Ueda, K. Iha, S. Taniguchi, K. Kato, Y. Yoshikawa, H. Akashi); Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan (K. Maeda, H. Shimoda); Hikiiwa Park Center, Wakayama, Japan (K. Suzuki); and National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo (S. Morikawa, I. Kurane, T. Mizutani)

Abstract
Because bats are associated with emerging zoonoses, identification and characterization of novel viruses from bats is needed. Using a modified rapid determination system for viral RNA/DNA sequences, we identified a novel bat betaherpesvirus 2 not detected by herpesvirus consensus PCR. This modified system is useful for detecting unknown viruses.

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

Vol. 15, No. 12, December 2009

“I think I could turn and live with animals” –Walt Whitman

Polyxeni Potter

gizmag

Cure for all types of flu could be on the way

By Ben Coxworth

16:53 June 10, 2010

http://www.gizmag.com/cure-for-all-types-of-flu-on-the-way/15380/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emerging Infectious Diseases—USA

Volume 16, Number 6–June 2010

Favorable Book Review

Human-Animal Medicine: Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants and Other Shared Health Risks

Peter M. Rabinowitz and Lisa A. Conti
Saunders, Maryland Heights, MD, USA, 2009
ISBN: 10-1416068376
Pages: 432; Price: US $99.95

http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/6/1050a.htm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

Announcements: Introduction to Public Health Surveillance Course

May 7, 2010 / 59(17);526

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5917a7.htm

So What Is the One Health Initiative?

The Human-Animal Bond Blog via The Drake Center:

http://blog.thedrakecenter.com/2010/04/13/so-what-is-the-one-health-initiative/