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“…Reducing antimicrobial resistance will require a One Health approach…”

World health officials call for global action on antimicrobial resistance

Published on July 2, 2014 by Emma Rogers

“Health officials across the world recently called on lawmakers to do more to address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which may hamper the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.” …

“Reducing antimicrobial resistance will require a One Health approach combining efforts of many stakeholders and sectors, especially in the fields of health, agriculture and aquaculture to work together using synergistic and complementary approaches. The effectiveness and future use of antimicrobials must be preserved for the treatment of human and animal diseases.”

Please read entire article: http://vaccinenewsdaily.com/world_health_organization/331095-world-health-officials-call-for-global-action-on-antimicrobial-resistance/

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations media release, Tuesday 1 July 2014 [= “One Health” issue]

“Top Ten” list of food-borne parasites released

New guidelines being developed to control parasites in food

July 2014, Rome - A "Top Ten" list identifying the food-borne parasites of greatest global concern has been released today, and new guidelines are being developed to control them.

The parasites affect the health of millions of people every year, infecting muscle tissues and organs, causing epilepsy, anaphylactic shock, amoebic dysentery and other problems. Some can live on in our bodies for decades.

Despite their huge social costs and global impacts, information is generally lacking regarding just where these parasites come from, how they live in the human body, and – most importantly – how they make us sick.

As a first step in tackling the problem, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) are initially focusing on the ten food borne parasites with the greatest global impact. The rankings contained in today's FAO-WHO report, Multicriteria-based ranking for risk management of food-borne parasites, are based on the parasites' burden on human health and other factors, and includes information on where they can be found.

The top ten are:

1.                              Taenia solium (pork tapeworm): In pork

2.                              Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid worm or dog tapeworm): In fresh produce

3.                              Echinococcus multilocularis (a type of tapeworm): In fresh produce

4.                              Toxoplasma gondii (protozoa): In meat from small ruminants, pork, beef, game meat (red meat and organs)

5.                              Cryptosporidium spp.(protozoa): In fresh produce, fruit juice, milk

6.                              Entamoeba histolytica (protozoa): In fresh produce

7.                              Trichinella spiralis (pork worm): In pork

8.                              Opisthorchiidae (family of flatworms): In freshwater fish

9.                              Ascaris spp. (small intestinal roundworms): In fresh produce

10.                          Trypanosoma cruzi (protozoa): In fruit juices

The list and supporting report were developed following a request by the global food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), for FAO and WHO to review the current status of knowledge on parasites in food and their public health and trade impacts.

FAO's food safety and quality unit and WHO responded by jointly organizing a global call for information on the problem.

Twenty-two nations and one regional body responded, followed by an assessment and analysis by 21 experts on the impact of food-borne parasites.

From this work, an initial list of 93 parasites was developed. The list was then narrowed down to the 24 most damaging parasites based on the following criteria: 1) number of global illnesses, 2) global distribution 3) acute morbidity 4) chronic morbidity and 5) economic impact. …

Please read complete Press Release: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/237323/icode/

6^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;174:650-654 doi:10.1136/vr.g3678 - Volume 174, Issue 26

One health, many histories

1.         Abigail Woods, MA, MSc, VetMB, PhD, MRCVS and

    2.         Michael Bresalier, BA, MES, PhD

+ Author Affiliations

1.      Department of History, King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK

          e-mail: abigail.woods@kcl.ac.uk

Abstract

In another of Veterinary Record's series of articles on One Health, Abigail Woods and Michael Bresalier discuss the complex history of veterinary-medical collaboration and highlight the social, political and institutional factors that have contributed towards shaping the One Health model.

Please read entire article at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/174/26/650.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 five 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 and June 3, 2014.

Outstanding University of Florida’s (USA) One Health Newsletter Volume 7, Issue 2 Published

Please see: http://media.news.health.ufl.edu/misc/egh/One%20Health%20Newsletter/Volume7Issue2.pdf

All current and previous OHNL issues are also posted on the One Health Initiative website’s One Health Newsletter page http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/newsletter.php.

The One Health Initiative team works collaboratively with the University of Florida’s One Health Newsletter Editorial Board and strongly supports their excellent publication.  We encourage all interested U.S. and worldwide One Health supporter/advocates to submit pertinent One Health articles to:

Co-Editors

Mary M. Merrill, MHS

One Health Center of Excellence for

Research & Training,

University of Florida

mleighmorris@epi.ufl.edu 

and/or 

Sarah K. White, MPH

One Health Center of Excellence for

Research & Training,

University of Florida

sek0005@epi.ufl.edu  

One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Jack Woodall, PhD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH

The World Bank

One Health Project Paper—National Human and Animal Health Systems Assessment Tools and Bridges Project

Assessment tools and bridges completed, paving the way to reduction of global health risks

June 17, 2014

“Thanks to contributions from the European Commission and nine other donors, the Avian and Human Influenza Facility (AHIF) financed a transformational project that is key to development and health security.  The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) worked closely together, with support from AHIF, to develop and refine their tools for assessing human and veterinary public health systems and to develop an accompanying joint WHO-OIE guide (link to the Project Paper).  This project, the last financed by AHIF, was successfully completed on schedule this year.  The international community now has critically-needed assessment tools that work across the human and animal health sectors.  …

…On behalf of the World Bank, Juergen Voegele (Director, Agriculture) and Timothy Grant Evans (Director, Health) welcomed the completion of the joint OIE-WHO project.  They emphasized use of One Health approaches, promptly sharing information and jointly analyzing risks and response effectiveness.  The tools for assessments of the veterinary and human public health systems and the bridges between them are clearly needed to guide improvement in capacities of public health systems to prevent and control diseases, including those that can become pandemics.  The tools will enable smooth implementation of One Health approaches, consistent standards across countries, and badly-needed investments in essential public health capacity. …”

Please see: http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/pandemics/brief/assessment-tools-bridges-completed-paving-way-to-reduction-of-global-health-risks

Provided by:

Olga B. Jonas
Economic Adviser
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 +1 (202) 469-2727

 ojonas@worldbank.org

 www.worldbank.org/pandemics

World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) One Health Committee Launches Phase II Project …

“The World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) One Health Committee has launched its second three year programme of work, which aims to highlight the role of small companion animals in One Health. Plans for the project were discussed during a two day meeting at Duke Medical Centre in Durham, North Carolina from 9–10 June 2014. …”

Please read entire June 13, 2014 press release on PDF view.

Provided to One Health Initiative website June 14, 2014 by:

Michael J. Day, BSc BVMS(Hons), PhD, DSc, DiplECVP, FASM, FRCPath, FRCVS

Professor of Veterinary Pathology
School of Veterinary Sciences
University of Bristol
Langford BS40 5DU
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0) 117 9289521
Fax:  +44 (0) 117 9289588
Email:  M.J.Day@bristol.ac.uk

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Comparative Pathology
Director of Pathology, KWS Biotest Ltd.

Senior Vice President, BSAVA

Chairman, WSAVA Scientific Advisory Committee

Chairman, WSAVA Vaccination Guidelines Group

Chairman, WSAVA One Health Committee

Vice President, WSAVA Foundation

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Note—A 2013 book publication of interest relative to this topic:

       Zoonoses – Protecting People and Their Pets

       http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Products/zoonoses-protecting-people-and-their-pets.php?lang=en
       :: Click Here :: - 1st Edition (2013)

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Master Class "One Health" for young scientists from the European Union and Southeast Asia

Please see attached PDF

Provided by:

Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA

Professor, Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions

Professor, Infectious Diseases and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine

Director, One Health Center of Excellence for Research & Training

Email: gcgray@phhp.ufl.edu

Emerging Pathogens Institute
2055 Mowry Road
Gainesville, FL 32611
Tel: 352-273-9449/9418
Fax: 352-273-9420
epi.ufl.edu/onehealth

http://egh.phhp.ufl.edu/

Dr. Gray is a longstanding One Health Supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php and a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

4^rd One Health article published…

British (United Kingdom) Veterinary Journal Publishes 4rd Article of One Health Series 2014

Veterinary Record 2014;174:546-551 doi:10.1136/vr.g3263

“Emerging infectious diseases: opportunities at the human-animal-environment interface”

Matthew A. Dixon, BSc, MSc, Osman A. Dar, MBBS, MSc, FFPH and *David L. Heymann, MD

Abstract

Infectious diseases pose a serious threat to the wellbeing of both human and animal populations. Here, in the fifth in Veterinary Record's series of articles promoting One Health, Mathew Dixon, Osman Dar and David Heymann examine lessons learned from previous disease outbreaks; they also consider current threats and how a better understanding of underlying risk factors could stimulate a paradigm shift from treatment to prevention of zoonotic infectious diseases.

Please read entire article at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/174/22/546.full or click on PDF attachment.

Provided FREE-ACCESS to the One Health Initiative website June 2, 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

*Dr. Heymann is a longstanding physician One Health Supporter/advocate http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php and a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php.

Note: The previous three One Health articles of the series were posted in the One Health Initiative website’s NEWS page January 24, 2014, February 23, 2014, and March 25, 2014.

PLoS ONE, Tuesday May 1, 2014

Emerging Infectious Diseases in Free-Ranging Wildlife – Australian Zoo Based Wildlife Hospitals Contribute to National Surveillance

Keren Cox-Witton, Andrea Reiss, Rupert Woods, Victoria Grillo, Rupert T. Baker, David J. Blyde, Wayne Boardman, Stephen Cutter, Claude Lacasse, Helen McCracken, Michael Pyne, Ian Smith, Simone Vitali, Larry Vogelnest, Dion Wedd, Martin Phillips, Chris Bunn, Lyndel Post

Please read complete article http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0095127

Abstract

Emerging infectious diseases are increasingly originating from wildlife. Many of these diseases have significant impacts on human health, domestic animal health, and biodiversity. Surveillance is the key to early detection of emerging diseases. A zoo based wildlife disease surveillance program developed in Australia incorporates disease information from free-ranging wildlife into the existing national wildlife health information system. This program uses a collaborative approach and provides a strong model for a disease surveillance program for free-ranging wildlife that enhances the national capacity for early detection of emerging diseases.

Citation: Cox-Witton K, Reiss A, Woods R, Grillo V, Baker RT, et al. (2014) Emerging Infectious Diseases in Free-Ranging Wildlife–Australian Zoo Based Wildlife Hospitals Contribute to National Surveillance. PLoS ONE 9(5): e95127. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095127