One Health Publications

New Resources about responsible Antibiotic Use: Notable “Letter Addressing Antibiotic Resistance”

Provided to the One Health Initiative website March 1, 2016

“I would welcome the opportunity to share my letter on your website.  It is written to colleagues in the animal health community, but the information on the websites is just as pertinent to those in the rest of the one health community as well.”

Leah C. Dorman, DVM | Director, Food Integrity & Consumer Engagement

Phibro Animal Health Corporation

Glenpoint Centre East, 3^rd Floor | 300 Frank W. Burr Blvd., Ste. 21 | Teaneck, NJ 07666

Mobile: + 1.614.309.7243

leah.dorman@pahc.com  | www.pahc.com  

Follow me on Twitter @AskDrDorman | Facebook Ask Dr. Dorman

Dr. Dorman is a One Health Supporter http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

Please note “AnimalAntibiotics.org http://animalantibiotics.org/ is a resource for consumers and ExploreAnimalHealth.org http://exploreanimalhealth.org/ is designed for those of us directly involved in animal care as we engage in conversations with food system stakeholders and consumers.” See resource references http://animalantibiotics.org/dig-deeper/resource-library/

One Health in ACTION...

Controlling liver fluke infection - The Lawa model

Liver fluke infection is a major public health problem in Northeast Thailand and its neighboring Mekong countries with over 10 million infected.  The infection is associated with a fatal cholangiocarcinoma and Thailand has been reported the highest incidence of this primary liver cancer in the world. Our group pioneered the introduction of integrated liver fluke (opisthorchiasis) control using an EcoHealth/One Health approach at Lawa Lake, a field research site where the disease is endemic. A program has been carried out for over 6 years using chemotherapy, novel intensive health education methods both in the communities and in schools, ecosystem monitoring and active community participation. As a result, the infection rate in the more than 10 villages surrounding the Lake has declined to less than 10% of the average of 60% as estimated by a baseline survey 6 years ago. Strikingly, the Cyprinoid fish species, which are the intermediate host, now showed less than 1% prevalence compared to a maximum of 70% during the baseline survey. This liver fluke control program, named “Lawa model,” is now recognized nationally and internationally. The Lawa village and its community hospital has become the training site for integrated liver fluke control for health personnel, community leaders, teachers, local governors, and volunteers  from all over northeastern and northern Thailand. The “Lawa model” is now being expanding to other parts of Thailand and neighboring Mekong countries.    

Also please see attached Lawa Model PDF, i.e. “systems thinking behind this control model” and more intensive and update activities at these links: http://www.facebook.com/TDRLab

Provided by:

Banchob Sripa, PhD

Professor & Chair, Tropical Medicine Graduate Program

Tropical Disease Research Center

Deprtment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine

Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002

THAILAND

Tel: +66-43-363113, +66-43-202024

Fax: +66-43-204359

E-mail: banchob@kku.ac.th

Website: http://tdr.kku.ac.th

 Deputy Editor: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

TDR-KKU    Lawamodel

Dr. Banchob Sripa is a Professor at the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand and holds a Head of WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Control of Opisthorchiasis (Southeast Asian Liver Fluke Disease) – Tropical Disease Research Center  Khon Kaen University. He is the world expert in the pathology, pathogenesis and control of liver fluke infection and bile duct cancer. Dr.Sripa has published research articles, viewpoints, editorials and reviews for more than 180 in international journals, and sits on the Deputy Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases and editorial board of Infectious Diseases of Poverty (IDP). He has received several scientific awards including the recently the Outstanding Scientist Awards of Thailand (2013) and TRF Senior Research Scholar (2013). Dr.Sripa is a panel member on the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) panel of experts for biological agents of cancer, Disease Reference Group on Helminths (DRG), Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG), and ex-President of the Regional Network of Asian Schistosomiasis and Other Helminth Zoonoses (RNAS+). He is currently a coordinator of the Asian Neglected Tropical Disease Network (NTDASIA).

One Health News Letter released during inauguration of 16th Indian Veterinary Congress February 27-28, 2016

http://www.worldvet.org/events.php?item=130&view=item

Please see PDF attachment

Provided by:

*Prof. (Dr.) Rishendra Verma, ARS

B.Sc.,B.V.Sc. & A.H., M.V.Sc., M.Sc. (Immunol,UK),M.V.M. (Biosec, NZ), Ph.D, Dip. Journalism (Mysore), F.I.A.A.V.R.,F.I.A.V.P.H.S.,F. A.P.H.V.,F.I.S.V.I.B., F.N.A.V.Sc.,F.N.N.A.Sc.,F.N.A. Sc, FAO (Fellow)

CHAIRMAN, Expert Group (VET),I.P. Commission

Ex-Member, DBT Task Force on Vaccines and Diagnostics

Ex-President, Agricultural Research Service Scientist Forum, Izatnagar Unit

President, Laboratory Animal Science Association of India

General Secretary, National Academy of Veterinary Science (NAVS)

Founder Secretary, Indian Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Research

Founder Editor,  The Indian Journal of Veterinary Research

Contact#: +91-9359117376(M), +91-581-2586453(R)

*Dr. Verma is a longstanding One Health supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php.

World Veterinary Day Award 2016 – APRIL 30 2016

To celebrate the World Veterinary Day (WVD) that will take place globally on 30 April 2016, the World Veterinary Association (WVA) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) are organising the World Veterinary Day Award 2016 to reward the most successful contribution by the veterinary profession on the selected theme for 2016: Continuing Education with a One Health focus.

The competition is open to all WVA member associations, alone, or in cooperation with any other selected body.

The winner association of the 2016 Award will be presented at the Opening Ceremony of the OIE 84th General Session to be held in Paris, France on 22nd May 2016.

SELECTED THEME 2016

CONTINUING EDUCATION WITH A ONE HEALTH FOCUS

Veterinarians play a crucial role in protecting global health. In all areas of the profession, they have opportunities and responsibilities to improve the health and welfare of animals, and therefore, to improve the health of humans.

SEE Complete announcement: http://www.oie.int/en/for-the-media/press-releases/detail/article/world-veterinary-day-award-2016/

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The Public Health Associate is a diagnostic reminder tool as well as an electronic reference resource. Designed and edited by Norman C. Ronald, PhD, a parasitologist and epidemiologist, and Dr. Craig N. Carter, Associate developer, Public Health Associate presents human infectious and parasitic disease information in a consistent and concise manner. This tool is for use by physicians, nurses, physician assistants, veterinarians and other public health professionals and students.

In order to have a complete biosecurity tool, you'll also receive access to the Foreign Animal Disease Associate.

These diseases are organized in chapters. The chapters are divided such that the diseases are either a disease of a system or causal diseases. Furthermore, the etiologies, clinical findings, procedures, and procedure findings are part of a standardized lexicon so that the same finding will be used in all the diseases where it is found. This is what allows the Associate knowledge bases to be used as a clinical decision support tool. Each disease description contains the following headings:

• Disease name
• Disease synonyms
• Etiologies
• Epidemiology (Etiological agent, reservoir hosts, portal of escape, transmission/dissemination, portal of entry, susceptible hosts, incubation period, seasonal distribution, geographical distribution, epidemiological variables, mortality, zoonotic classification).
• Relationship to immunodeficiency
• Clinical picture in animals
• Clinical signs, symptoms, epidemiological indicators
• Diagnostic procedures and results
• Geographical distribution
• Vectors/Invertebrate Hosts
• Antibiotic/anti-parasitic drugs of choice
• Treatment/management/prevention
• Differential diagnosis
• Bibliographic citation list

Some diseases may include an image of a map in the top right corner of the disease discription. The red areas on the map represent the geographical distribution of the disease. Click on the map to see a larger version.

SEE: http://www.publichealthassociate.com/

“Open Access”

Infection Ecology and Epidemiology The One Health Journal (Sweden) http://www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net/index.php/iee

One Health and EcoHealth: the same wine in different bottles?

Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2016, 6: 30978 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/iee.v6.30978

SEE: http://www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net/index.php/iee/article/view/30978

The National Link Coalition: The Veterinarian’s Role in Breaking the Chain of Family and Community Violence [A One Health issue]

 Provided to One Health Initiative website/team February 18, 2016:

University of Minnesota

International Conference on One Medicine One Science – April24-27, 2016

The University of Minnesota will host the 2nd International Conference on One Medicine One Science (iCOMOS 2016) at The Commons Hotel on the Minneapolis campus from April 24–27, 2016.

iCOMOS is a global forum to communicate the importance of science in solving pressing health issues at the interface of humans, animals and the environment.

The iCOMOS 2016 program will feature state-of-the-art and keynote presentations by speakers representing more than 13 countries in the following sessions:

• Balancing Personalized/Precision Medicine and Public Health in a Changing Environment
• Air Quality, Environmental Exposures, and Health
• Water at the Interface of Health, Economics, and Environment
• Role of Science in Formulation of Local and Global Health Policy

In addition, iCOMOS 2016 will feature workshops on:

• Tomorrow’s Health Science Workforce: Physician-Scientists and Team Science (organized by faculty and experts from UMN/NIH)
• One Health One Policy: Managing Risk En Route to Global Food Security (organized by faculty and experts from UMN/FAO)
• Big Data: The Language and Future of One Medicine One Science (organized by faculty from UMN-CVM/OVPR/CFANS)
• Team Science:Canine and Human Epilepsy, a Model for Bidirectional Benefit (organized by faculty and experts from UMN-CVM, Mayo Clinic, NIH, Epilepsy Foundation)

Conference information and updates are available at iCOMOS.umn.edu.

The abstract submission deadline is February 29, 2016.

Seating capacity for the iCOMOS 2016 is limited (we were sold out last time), so please register before the early deadline of April 5, 2016.

Partners
University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine, Academic Health Center, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, Food and Agriculture Organization, Institute on the Environment, Minnesota's Discovery, Research and Innovation Economy, and Office of the Vice President for Research.

For More Information:
Marie Villano
University of Minnesota
612-624-4972
cceconf4@umn.edu

SEE: http://cceevents.umn.edu/icomos?utm_source=cpe%20conferences&utm_medium=email&utm_content=email%20promo&utm_campaign=email+icomos+2.18.16

CONSERVATION AND HEALTH PART 3

Modern livestock Production: Are the Benefits Worth the Risks?

In the United States and other developed nations we produce some of world’s safest, least expensive, and most accessible beef, pork, and poultry products.

Because of their e_ciencies, US production techniques are being adopted

worldwide to meet the protein needs for the world’s growing human population.

Yet, the production methods can have adverse impacts upon our environment, and they have potential to amplify and spread dangerous emerging infectious diseases. _is forum will feature two experts who will present the advantages and the disadvantages of modern livestock production.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2016 | 4:30-6:00PM

FIELD AUDITORIUM, DUKE ENVIRONMENT HALL

JAMES LOWE, DVM, MS

College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

ELLEN SILBERGELD, PHD

Environmental Health Science, Epidemiology and Health Policy and

Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

SPEAKERS:

GREGORY C. GRAY, MD, MPH,

FIDSA

Division of Infectious Diseases, Global Health Institute, & Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University

ORGANIZER:

THE PROVOST OFFICE

SPONSOR:

For more Information: Susan Jones | 919.684.2631 | Susan.M.Jones@duke.edu

PLoS ONE Journal

Willingness to Consult a Veterinarian on Physician’s Advice for Zoonotic Diseases: A Formal Role for Veterinarians in Medicine?

Speare R, Mendez D, Judd J, Reid S, Tzipori S, Massey PD - PLoS ONE 10(8): e0131406. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131406 Published: August 3, 2015

Abstract

Physicians appear to find zoonotic diseases a challenge and consider that this topic belongs more to the veterinary profession. However, veterinarians have no formal role in clinical medicine. Data were collected as part of the Queensland Social Survey 2014 to determine the willingness of the public, if diagnosed with a zoonotic disease, to consult a veterinarian on the advice of a physician. Self-reported willingness to consult with a veterinarian at the respondent’s own expense was 79.8% (95% CI: 81.96%-77.46%) (976/1223). If the cost was funded by Medicare, the Australian public health insurance scheme, 90.7% (95% CI: 92.18%-88.92%) (1109/1223) would be willing to consult a veterinarian. Therefore, a large majority of Australian residents would be willing to consult with a veterinarian on the advice of their physician if they had a zoonotic disease. Does this indicate a possible new role for veterinarians under Clinical One Health?

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0131406