Advocate One Health approach to antibiotic resistance…

The Bella Moss Foundation – United Kingdom

 “The Bella Moss Foundation is a charity which promotes prudent antimicrobial use and hygiene in human and veterinary medicine. ...”

Please read more: http://www.thebellamossfoundation.com/

               ELSEVIER - ONE HEALTH Journal Open Access About this Journal

Absence of MERS-CoV antibodies in feral camels in Australia: implications for the pathogen’s origin and spread

Gary Crameri, Peter A. Durr, Jennifer Barr, Meng Yu, Kerryne Graham, Owen J. Williams, Ghazi Kayali, David Smith, Malik Peiris, John S. Mackenzie, Lin-Fa Wang

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352771415000129

Abstract - One Health doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2015.10.003

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections continue to be a serious emerging disease problem internationally with well over 1000 cases and a major outbreak outside of the Middle East region. While the hypothesis that dromedary camels are the likely major source of MERS-CoV infection in humans is gaining acceptance, conjecture continues over the original natural reservoir host(s) and specifically the role of bats in the emergence of the virus. Dromedary camels were imported to Australia, principally between 1880 and 1907 and have since become a large feral population inhabiting extensive parts of the continent. Here we report that during a focussed surveillance study, no serological evidence was found for the presence of MERS-CoV in the camels in the Australian population. This finding presents various hypotheses about the timing of the emergence and spread of MERS-CoV throughout populations of camels in Africa and Asia, which can be partially resolved by testing sera from camels from the original source region, which we have inferred was mainly northwestern Pakistan. In addition, we identify bat species which overlap (or neighbour) the range of the Australian camel population with a higher likelihood of carrying CoVs of the same lineage as MERS-CoV. Both of these proposed follow-on studies are examples of “proactive surveillance”, a concept that has particular relevance to a One Health approach to emerging zoonotic diseases with a complex epidemiology and aetiology.

An outstanding One Health item...published on NOVA Next – PBS http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/

 How Vietnam Mastered Infectious Disease Control

   By Joanne Silberner on Thu, 05 Nov 2015 

“It’s the winter of 2003, and Long Thanh Ngo, head of a government biological testing lab in Dong Nai province, watches helplessly as a highly infectious avian influenza virus begins ripping through Vietnam. In a nation   heavily dependent on poultry for protein, tens of millions of chickens and ducks are either killed by the disease or culled to prevent it from spreading.

The virus even makes the jump to humans. Ninety-three people in Vietnam who plucked or cleaned infected birds or somehow came in contact with their droppings get sick. Mostly, the illnesses begin as normal flu—fevers, aches, pains. Forty-two people develop severe respiratory symptoms and die. Other Asian countries have cases as well, but Vietnam is the hardest hit. ...”

SEE complete article:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/one-health-vietnam/ or click on attachment.

Permission to post on One Health Initiative website granted Nov 9, 2015 granted by:

Tim De Chant, Editor, Nova Next

The One Health Newsletter, Volume 8, Issue 3 Published Today – October 28, 2015

http://media.news.health.ufl.edu/misc/egh/One%20Health%20Newsletter/OHNL_Vol8_Issue3.pdf

This quarterly newsletter is dedicated to enhancing the integration of animal, human, and environmental health for the benefit of all by demonstrating One Health in practice.

A product of the University of Florida (Emerging Pathogens Institute)—USA

Please see attachment or click on http://epi.ufl.edu/onehealth/news/one-health-newsletter/ and/or http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/newsletter.php

Pre-publication announcement for 'Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century' – November 2015

Global Population Health and Well-Being in the 21st Century: Toward New Paradigms, Policy and Practice 

(Springer Publications, New York, c. 480 pages)

George R. Lueddeke, PhD

...”With special attention given to major initiatives of the United Nations, especially its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2016–2030, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank priorities, the text articulates an imperative to adopt a “One World, One Health” view that recognizes the interdependence of humans, animals, plants, and the environment. ...”

For more information please see:

Attachment or http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/231015Lueddeke_Flyer_Updated_(1).pdf and

http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/23%2010%2015_MS_TOC.pdf

Provided by:

George Lueddeke, PhD 

Consultant Education Advisor 

Southampton, Hampshire 

United Kingdom SO40 4XG

Tel: (+44) 023 8042 8966 

Mob.: 07 990 752 355

Contact/Queries E-mail: glueddeke@aol.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/changingmed 

Linked-In connection: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dr-george-lueddeke/42/4b0/401

The American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP)

Supports and advocates the One Health approach

http://www.aaphp.org/onehealth

Note: Collaboration HISTORY of the One Health Initiative team http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/Draft%205%20NEWS%20OHI%20ONE%20HEALTH.pdf

http://ilarjournal.oxfordjournals.org/content/56/1/1.full

3rd GRF One Health Summit 2015

Fostering interdisciplinary collaboration for global public and animal health

October 4-7, 2015 - Davos, Switzerland

http://onehealth.grforum.org/

Outcomes are now online - http://onehealth.grforum.org/outcomes/

The Global Risk Forum One Health conference was held form October 4-6, 2015 in Davos, Switzerland. Over 250 researchers, policy makers and practitioners working on issues broadly in the area of public health, veterinary medicine, agriculture, biodiversity, ecosystem services, sustainable development and natural capital, in both developed and developing countries, gathered to find solutions to today's most pressing issues.

The conference outcomes are online now. You'll find an interactive conference overview, the short abstracts collection as well as the extended abstracts and poster collection all online now.

There are also all pictures and video statements from the Summit available.

Endorsed by One Health Initiative team and others—see:

http://onehealth.grforum.org/partnership/endorsing-partners/ (scroll down)

http://onehealth.grforum.org/about/scientific-and-technical-advisory-group/

University of Bristol

Chair in One Health Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

The University of Bristol Schools of Social and Community Medicine and Veterinary Sciences are seeking to appoint an outstanding academic leader to strengthen and help deliver their strategy for “One-Health” research.

This joint appointment is part of a University-wide initiative that recognises the current and future value of “big data” analysis, and will build on its established, unique capabilities in data science founded on the three pillars of domains (which provide the unique, large and complex data), infrastructure, and analytics.

Improvement in animal and human health will increasingly be driven by the integration of large bioveterinary/biomedical data sets (patient data, surveillance data, epidemic/pandemic data) with next-generation, high throughput technologies, such as genomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and biological imaging. The potential for these approaches to contribute to improved animal and human health through new treatments, diagnostics and general healthcare, is transformational. Building the capacity in the skills needed for analysing these large datasets remains a major challenge.

The successful candidate will have an outstanding research record, will have an established history of attracting substantial research funding. They will be expected to provide strong leadership across the Schools of Veterinary Science and Social and Community Medicine and to promote cross-faculty collaborations in areas of research contributing to the “One-Health Initiative”. The exact focus of the work can be developed to fit with the expertise of the successful candidate.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of scholarship in medical, veterinary or biologically relevant Data Science, and will also be someone with enthusiasm for linking data sets derived from different domains within the areas of animal and human health and disease. An important consideration will be how the individual will add value to, help to coordinate and inspire the substantial community already working in the general field of Complex and Big Data at Bristol.
The successful candidate will contribute to teaching in accordance with School policies and their interests and expertise.

It is expected that interviews will take place in January 2016.

Further information
If you would like to discuss the post informally, please contact either:

Professor Joanna Price jo.price@bristol.ac.uk  
Head of the School of Veterinary Sciences
+44 (0)117 928 9401

Professor Ed Hall dred.hall@bristol.ac.uk
Deputy Head of School