Perspective [“One Health”]

China's great wall, Israel's Bar Lev Line, and passive infectious disease surveillance

Maha A Elbadry, Mary M Merrill, Meng-Meng Ma, Mai-Juan Ma, Jia-Hai Lu, Wu-Chun Cao and Gregory C Gray

Military Medical Research 2014, 1:15  doi:10.1186/2054-9369-1-15 – Open Access

Published: 21 July 2014

Abstract (provisional)

Emerging infectious diseases are some of modern society's great threats. Like some great construction efforts designed to protect mankind, current public health measures against these emerging pathogens have not always been successful. This paper highlights the importance of embracing new interdisciplinary approaches towards emerging pathogen threats. One such approach, termed One Health, is quickly being embraced by professional organizations and public health institutions across the world as a way forward. This paper briefly discusses the above problems and preliminary steps taken by Chinese academic institutions to embrace the One Health approach.

Please see http://www.mmrjournal.org/content/1/1/15/abstract or click on attachment.

An unheralded Significant One Health (One Medicine) approach…

“Successful vaccines for naturally occurring protozoal diseases of animals should guide human vaccine research. A review of protozoal vaccines and their designs”

Parasitology (2014), 141, 624–640. © Cambridge University Press 2014. The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

doi:10.1017/S0031182013002060

…“ONE MEDICINE [One Health] The concept of ‘One Medicine’ includes the beneficial flow of knowledge and techniques from human medicine to veterinary medicine, and from veterinary medicine to human medicine. However, because of the dominance of human medical research funding, the flow of information moves predominantly from human medicine to veterinary medicine. Human medicine is missing significant benefits that could be had by paying greater attention to veterinary knowledge and by supporting opportunities to investigate naturally occurring diseases of animals. This missed opportunity is vividly illustrated by the discordance between development of veterinary protozoal vaccines, of which there are many, and human protozoal vaccines, of which there are none. ” ...

SUMMARY

“Effective vaccines are available for many protozoal diseases of animals, including vaccines for zoonotic pathogens and for several species of vector-transmitted apicomplexan haemoparasites. In comparison with human diseases, vaccine

development for animals has practical advantages such as the ability to perform experiments in the natural host, the option to manufacture some vaccines in vivo, and lower safety requirements. Although it is proper for human vaccines to be held to higher standards, the enduring lack of vaccines for human protozoal diseases is difficult to reconcile with the comparatively immense amount of research funding. Common tactical problems of human protozoal vaccine research include reliance upon adapted rather than natural animal disease models, and an overwhelming emphasis on novel approaches that are usually attempted in replacement of rather than for improvement upon the types of designs used in effective veterinary vaccines. Currently, all effective protozoal vaccines for animals are predicated upon the ability to grow protozoal organisms. Because human protozoal vaccines need to be as effective as animal vaccines, researchers should benefit froma comparison of existing veterinary products and leading experimental vaccine designs. With this in mind, protozoal vaccines are here

reviewed.”

Please read: http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FPAR%2FPAR141_05%2FS0031182013002060a.pdf&code=cc3694393c93e0f62cf84720c13bb8d5

Also, please note

The New One Health Journal Veterinary Sciences Released — Basel, Switzerland

Veterinary Sciences (ISSN 2306-7381, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/vetsci

Vet. Sci., Volume 1, Issue 1 (June 2014), Pages 1-76 http://www.mdpi.com/2306-7381/1/1/

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) President-elect (2014-2015), Dr. Ted Cohn, Issues “ONE HEALTH” Support Comments at AVMA Convention

 July 27, 2014 - Denver, Colorado (USA)

Please read second paragraph and third from last paragraph:

http://digitaleditions.sheridan.com/publication/?m=18293&l=1

From American Veterinary Medical Association Convention website https://www.avma.org/events/convention/pages/convention-news.aspx

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

Volume 20, Number 3—March 2014

An early One Health leader…

In Memoriam: James Harlan Steele (1913–2013)

“James Steele, DVM, MPH, passed away on November 10, 2013, in Houston; he was 100 years old. Jim Steele (Figure) was an extraordinary man. All of the dimensions of his life were on a grand scale. He was larger than life in so many ways; his vision, his leadership, his accomplishments in public health, his worldwide friendships, his mentorship of scores of young acolytes who came within his orbit, his extraordinary memory, his bear hugs, and his longevity were all manifestations of his boundless enthusiasm for life. … “

Read complete article: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/3/im-2003_article.htm

Also please listen to:

Drs. Jennifer McQuiston and Casey Barton Behravesh talk with Dr. Myron Schultz about the legendary Dr. James Harlan Steele. Created: 5/19/2014 by National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID). Date Released: 5/20/2014. Series Name: Emerging Infectious Diseases.

http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/player.asp?f=8632476

By:

Myron G. Schultz, DVM, MD, DCMT, FACP
Senior Medical Officer
Global Disease Detection Operations Center
Center for Global Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop D-68
Atlanta, GA 30333

Note: Dr. Steele was also the founder of the prestigious American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES). Its current President is Charles Thoen, DVM, PhD.  Drs. Thoen, Craig Carter (Steele biographer - http://www.amazon.com/One-Man-Medicine-Health-Steele/dp/1439240043) and other members of the AVES Executive Board will be attending the upcoming American Veterinary Medical Association convention in Denver, Colorado (USA) July 25-29, 2014.  AVES will be honoring high achieving individuals with an awards ceremony including Virginia Dato, MD, MPH and Jack Woodall, PhD.  Dr. Dato is a distinguished member of the One Health Initiative team's Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php and Dr. Woodall is a member of the One Health Initiative team.

7^th One Health Veterinary Record article posted on One Health Initiative website today…

British (United Kingdom) Veterinary Journal Publishes another Article of One Health Series 2014

Veterinary Record 2014;175:61-63 doi:10.1136/vr.g3641       

One Health in action: the work of the HAIRS group

Dilys Morgan, MBChB, DTMH, MSc, MD, FFPHM, MBE

+ Author Affiliations

Public Health England, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ, UK

e-mail: dilys.morgan@phe.gov.uk

Abstract

The Human Animal Infections and Risk Surveillance (HAIRS) group is collaboration between a number of human and animal health organisations within the UK government. The group aims to provide a ‘joined-up’ response to emerging diseases that threaten the health of people or animals. Here, Dilys Morgan, who chairs the group, discusses its work, highlighting its response to Schmallenberg virus, and shows how a One Health approach can improve government responses to potential crises.

Please read entire article at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/175/3/61.full or click on PDF attachment.

Provided FREE-ACCESS to the One Health Initiative website June 27, 2014 by:

Laura Feetham
Assistant Editor, Veterinary Record and In Practice
BMJ, BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR
T: 020 78747061
E: lfeetham@bmj.com
W: bmj.com/company

Note: The previous six One Health articles of the series were posted in the One Health Initiative website January 23, 2014, February 23, 2014, March 25, 2014, April 20, 2014, June 3, 2014 and June 29, 2014.

July 11, 2014

United States Department of Agriculture – Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS)

 Subject:  Notice on Vacancies on the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (USDA-FSIS)

We are working to recruit new members for the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF).  The Committee provides scientific advice and recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services concerning the development of microbiological criteria by which the safety and wholesomeness of food can be assessed. 

We are seeking members with scientific expertise in the fields of microbiology (food, clinical, and predictive), food technology, toxicology, epidemiology, risk assessment, infectious disease, biostatistics, and other related sciences. We are also seeking nominations for one individual affiliated with a consumer group to serve on the NACMCF. This member will serve as a representative member to provide a consumer viewpoint. Please see the attached Federal Register Notice for additional details on this Committee and how to apply.

 http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/2f1784a8-57e8-4126-9476-e5de86af8f5e/2014-0017.htm?MOD=AJPERES

Provided by:

Karen Y. Thomas

Advisory Committee Specialist

USDA, FSIS, OPHS, MD, NACMCF

Stop 3777, PP3, 9-210B

1400 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, DC 20250

Office:  202-690-6620

Fax: 202-690-6364

Email: Karen.thomas-Sharp@fsis.usda.gov

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA)

Known Universities Around the world with One Health Programs (as of July 2014)

Graphic prepared and provided by:

Mary Leigh Merrill, MHS

Program Coordinator // Co-Editor, One Health Newsletter

One Health Center of Excellence, Emerging Pathogens Institute,

University of Florida

2055 Mowry Road, Gainesville, FL 32611 (USA)

Tel.: (352) 273-9649 // Cell: (662) 871-8335

Email: mleighmorris@epi.ufl.edu // Website: http://epi.ufl.edu/onehealth

Note:  The One Health Initiative team/One Health Initiative website collaborates closely with the University of Florida’s Co-editors of the One Health Newsletter http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/newsletter.php and the current Director of their One Health Center of Excellence, Greg Gray, MD, MPH.  Dr. Gray also serves on the One Health Initiative team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

The whole family, one waiting room

By Dean Eleanor M. Green, Texas A&M University, July 9, 2014

Please read http://www.tribtalk.org/2014/07/09/the-whole-family-one-waiting-room/

Provided by:

 “… a link to an article that Dean Green wrote for the Texas TribTalk.  It captures our [TAMU] One Health philosophy quite well.”

Mike Chaddock, DVM, EML

Assistant Dean for One Health and Strategic Initiatives &

   Clinical Professor, Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences

College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences

Texas A&M University

Mchaddock@cvm.tamu.edu  

Suite 101, VMA Building

4461 TAMU

College Station, TX 77843-4461

Tel. 979.845.5617

Fax. 979.845.5088

vetsonline

Development of antibiotics a ‘double-edged sword’

David Cameron’s call for global action to tackle antibiotic resistance has been welcomed by the veterinary profession, but experts warn that a focus on new drugs is not enough to save us from returning to “the dark ages of medicine”. …

“A one health approach is needed – humans and animals share common problems when it comes to antimicrobial resistance (AMR), therefore they need a common solution – yes, new antibiotics can be part of the solution but this can’t just be solved by pharmacology alone.” …

Edinburgh academic and BMF advisor Tim Nuttal added: “Without also developing and implementing strategies to reduce antimicrobial use, to use these drugs more wisely, and to develop non-antibiotic ways to manage bacterial infections, we could find ourselves in exactly the same position. It is also disappointing that the One Health nature of antibiotics and antimicrobial resistance hasn’t been given more prominence.”

Please see http://www.vetsonline.com/news/latest-headlines/140703-development-of-antibiotics-a-double-edged-sword.html#.U7U44fK8lXE.twitter