1^st International One Health Congress – Australia – February 14-16, 2011

http://www.onehealth2011.com/email/index11.html

Rabies Webinar: September 28, 2010

Learn about the important public health issue of rabies; including the successes and challenges to implementing effective rabies prevention and control strategies. 

Sample Topics:

·         Webinar #2: 9:50-9:55am (EST) The One Health Initiative - Global Clearinghouse for Activities Involving Rabies and Other Zoonoses (Dr. Jack Woodall, One Health Initiative website team member), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.)

·          Rabies Control in India-Challenges and Strategies (Dr S.R. Garg, College of Veterinary Science, Hisar)

·          Lessons Learned from Dog Vaccinations in Tanzania (Dr Katie Hampson, University of Glasgow)

·          Alliances for Rabies Elimination in the Americas (Luis Fernando Leanes, PAHO/PANAFTOSA)

There is no cost to attend the webinars but you will need to register for each webinar separately.  Register Here

Or http://www.worldrabiesday.org/EN/Events/wrd-webinar.html

 “Understanding Rabies” – Video Release

In observance of World Rabies Day, the Global Alliance for Rabies Control is pleased to offer a seven segment video series entitled, Understanding Rabies. These short educational videos cover the following topics: What is Rabies?, What animals are most likely to be rabid?, Rabies symptoms, Rabies diagnosis, Preventing rabies, World Rabies Day and Rabies medical research.  We invite you to view our videos and share them as part of your outreach for World Rabies Day and beyond!

Watch the Videos: http://www.worldrabiesday.org/EN/media_center/videos.html

World Rabies Day eMedia

Help spread the word about rabies prevention and World Rabies Day! Add a button to your Web site that shows what you are doing to stay rabies free and send a Health e-Card to let others know how they can help prevent rabies.

Visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention eMedia Site: http://www.cdc.gov/worldrabiesday/eMedia.html

·                                 The Sydney Morning Herald

Pet cancer drug goes to human trials

June 13, 2010

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/pet-cancer-drug-goes-to-human-trials-20100613-y5ny.html

 Human and Animal Health (USA) – From American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Podcast:

Veterinarians play a prominent role in making sure our food supply is healthy and safe to eat by preventing the spread of foodborne illness among our livestock. Doing so not only keeps the animals healthy, but it also reduces the risk of human exposure to foodborne illnesses.

 In this podcast, W. Ron DeHaven, DVM, MBA, chief executive officer of the AVMA discusses the link between human and animal health and expresses the AVMA’s carefully considered perspectives about the use of antibiotics in food producing animals (i.e. livestock) relative to this practice’s “resistance development” concerns.

 Please listen to Dr. DeHaven by clicking the “MP3” in the following link.

 http://www.avmamedia.org/detail.asp?sid=256&NAME=Human_and_Animal_Health

Factors associated with compliance with community directed treatment with ivermectin for onchocerciasis control in Southwestern Ethiopia

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/3/1/48

Yirga D, Deribe K, Woldemichael K, Wendafrash M, Kassahun W
Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:48 (2 June 2010)
[Abstract] [Provisional PDF]

Monday, June 7, 2010

The California Aggie

The California Aggie > Campus News > UC Davis observes National Public Health Week

University of California, Davis, CA (USA)  observes National Public Health Week

Professionals discuss topics in societal health

Written by Kyle Sporleder

Aggie Staff Writer

Published on Apr 8, 2010

… [Dr.] Cheryl Scott, program director for the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's Calvin Schwabe One Health Project, suggested collaboration is needed in all fields of health in order to address the concerns of the nation as a whole.

According to Scott, "One Health" is the idea that one must consider factors that affect the health of all organisms.

"One Health is the intersection of human, animal and ecosystem health," Scott said. "It makes sense that since we all live in the same environment, then that environment must be healthy in order for us to be."

Scott wants attention drawn to crises that affect everyone, not just one life or entity, such as infectious diseases, food contamination, drug-resistant bacteria, habitat destruction and air/water quality.

One way to do that, she argues, is to engage students today who will be the workforce we depend on tomorrow.

"We need more smart and passionate people engaged in health issues," Scott said. "They need to be aware that none of us are isolated anymore. What affects one of us will eventually affect all of us. And students entering the health field need to realize that." …

Read the entire article at http://theaggie.org/article/uc-davis-observes-national-public-health-week

A “One Health” Approach to Address Emerging Zoonoses: The HALI Project in Tanzania

Jonna A. K. Mazet, DVM, MPVM, PHD and colleagues describe their work [Plos Medicine] in the Tanzania-based HALI Project, which adopts the “One Health” approach to address emerging zoonoses and that recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health.

Jonna A. K. Mazet^1*, Deana L. Clifford¹, Peter B. Coppolillo², Anil B. Deolalikar, Jon D. Erickson⁴, Rudovick R. Kazwala⁵3

1 Wildlife Health Center, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America, 2 Wildlife Conservation Society, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America, 3 Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, California, United States of America, 4 Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, United States of America, 5 Department of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1000190

Structural Basis for Senior Immunity to the Current H1N1 Flu
summary written by Raven Hanna

http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/h1n1_summary.html 

Stanford [University] (USA) Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource

Date Published: May 28, 2010

The above was a lay summary for:

Primary Citation

Xu, R., Ekiert, D.C., Krause, J.C., Hai, R., Crowe, J.E. Jr, Wilson, I.A. Structural Basis of Preexisting Immunity to the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus. Science 328, 357-360 (2010).

Structural Basis of Pre-existing Immunity to thé 2009 H1N1 Pandemic Influenza Virus

The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, also known as the "swine flu", marks the first human flu pandemic in 40 years and has caused significant human infection and mortality globally (1). The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 flu marks the first time that an influenza pandemic was triggered by a virus carrying the same hemagglutinin (HA) subtype as circulating seasonal strains. In contrast, all prior pandemics were caused by the rise of a novel influenza strain with a different hemagglutinin subtype. And unlike seasonal flu that usually affects the elderly most severely, swine flu has been primarily targeting people under the age of 65, implying some age-related pre-existing immunity (2, 3) … … READ MORE at

http://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/highlights_archive/h1n1.html.

Parasites & Vectors

5th Symposium on Canine Vector-Borne Diseases

Edited by Chris Arme

This thematic series groups papers presented at the 5th Symposium on Canine Vector-Borne Diseases New York City 12th-15th April 2010

http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/series/CVBD5

Case Study: Veterinarians without Borders-Canada

One health for one world: a compendium of case studies

http://aitoolkit.org/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/OHOW_Compendium_Case_Studies.pdf

This compendium of case studies, prepared by Veterinarians without Borders with support from the Canadian Public Health Agency, promotes that the health of people, animals, and the ecosystem are inextricably woven together. The compendium includes a broad range of disease outbreaks across the globe including avian influenza H5N1 and pandemic influenza H1N1. Each study includes basic information about the clinical disease and the infectious agent associated with it, a description of why the disease is appropriate for one-health approaches, responses and conclusions, and implications for government, business and research policies.