Global One Health Concerns That Demand Veterinary Attention

          “The Calvin Schwabe One Health Project is producing a new generation of veterinarians who will

be ready to lead a collaborative, transdisciplinary, multi-species effort to improve global health. With

expertise in biohazard events, food and water safety, vector-borne diseases, established and emerging

zoonotic diseases, herd health, foreign animal risks, and public health issues such as antimicrobial resistance,

these graduates will be positioned as true One Health advocates and practitioners of the future.”

See Full Text in Lead Article on One Health Newsletter - Summer Issue

http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/medicine/One_Health/OHNLSummer2009.pdf

For more information, visit the Calvin Schwabe One Health Project website at:

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/

‘Frontiers in One Health’ seminar series (see attached flyer)

This is being offered to the School of Veterinary Medicine on the University of California, Davis campus (USA); the community of Davis and Sacramento, California, the UCDavis Medical School and Nursing School, and the public at large.

                  All Lectures Free…Open to Public

            Details Coming soon…More Speakers to Follow

Provided by:

Cheryl Scott, RN, NP, DVM, MPVM

Calvin Schwabe One Health Project

Program Director

UCDavis School of Veterinary Medicine (USA)

Deans Office Surge IV

RM 119

530.754.0324

cascott@ucdavis.edu

http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/onehealth/

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Canary Database Project News

September 14, 2009

New Book: HUMAN-ANIMAL MEDICINE: Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses and Other Shared Health Risks

Editors: Rabinowitz, P. Conti, L.

Release Date: December 2009

ISBN-13: 978-1-4160-6837-2

ISBN-10: 1-4160-6837-6

Abstract: Human-Animal Medicine focuses on the emerging diseases that cross between animals and humans, and points out the important environmental changes related to land use, climate change, intensification of food production, and other factors that help manifest these diseases. This evidence-based practice manual is designed to help you manage a wide range of clinical problems at the intersection of human and animal health, with practical steps for implementing the concept of “One Health” in daily practice of human and veterinary medicine and public health. Develop all the skills you need to effectively manage human-animal health problems with this timely, comprehensive resource.

Link to more detail on the book.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookbibliographicinfo.cws_home/720333/description

News Release

The Alliance for Rabies Control

 Rabies is Still Deadliest Disease, Yet Preventable

For Immediate Release                                                  

 Monday, September 28, 2009 

Contact: Peter Costa                                        

00 + 1.919.830.2199

peter.costa@worldrabiesday.org

Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Duke University Graduate Medical School - Singapore

http://kooprime.tzo.com:8089/Duke-PEID/

Duane J. Gubler, ScD, FAAAS, FIDSA

Director

Program on Emerging Infectious Disease

Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School,

8 College Road,  Singapore 169857

and

Asian Pacific Institute of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases

University of Hawaii, Honolulu

E-mail:duane.gubler@duke-nus.edu.sg

Tel:65 6516 7256

Veterinary Epidemiological Bulletin - Sri Lanka

Courtesy of Dr. Ravi Bandara Dissanayake, Editor

Tie to Pets Has Germ [MRSA] Jumping to and Fro

MRSA = Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

The New York Times

By BRENDA GOODMAN

Published: September 21, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/health/22mrsa.html?_r=1&em

The National Association of State Public Health Veterinarians (NASPHV) helps direct and develop uniform public health procedures involving zoonotic disease in the United States and its territories.

http://www.nasphv.org/

It’s time for the annual Rabies in the Americas (RITA) conference benefit auction and your help is needed!

For more information contact: Richard Chipman (richard.b.chipman@aphis.usda.gov) and see PDF View.

Supplied by: Peter J. Costa, MPH, CHES

 Global Communications Coordinator for the Rabies Alliance

http://www.isid.org/publications/ISIDnewsletter200909.shtml

International Society for Infectious Diseases NEWS

September 2009 Issue

Includes upcoming international meetings