World Health Organization – Weekly Epidemiological Record April 24, 2009

http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/disease_management/wer_2009_17_extract.pdf

Neglected zoonotic diseases (NZD)

http://www.who.int/neglected_diseases/zoonoses/en/

Rationale

Zoonotic diseases such as anthrax, bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, cysticercosis, echinococcosis (hydatid disease) and rabies are endemic in many developing countries of Africa, Asia and south and central America.

Many of the most affected countries have poor or nonexistent veterinary public health (VPH) infrastructures. This situation has marginalized control of zoonoses to the gap between veterinary responsibilities and medical needs, generating a false perception that their burden and impact on society are low. As a result, neither the human and animal health resources nor the research needed for their control are available, spawning a category of neglected zoonotic diseases (NZDs).

Control of NZDs saves lives and secures livelihoods, offering a realistic and cost effective opportunity to alleviate poverty in remote rural and marginalized periurban communities. Interventions to control NZDs require coordination among veterinary, livestock and human health sectors that calls for a comprehensive and integrated interdisciplinary approach.
Figures on the impact of NZDs | List of specific NZDs

Goal

To control NZDs by preventing their occurrence in humans and by controlling and, where feasible, eliminating disease in their animal reservoirs. Integration is needed at two levels: across and between sectors as well as among diseases.

Objectives

To provide effective leadership and technical, financial and political support in controlling, preventing and eliminating NZDs.

Strategy

• Lead global and regional efforts to promote and coordinate the “one health” concept for control of NZDs and formulate a model for applying this integrated approach in the context of eco-systems that facilitate transmission of NZDs.
• Provide guidelines on establishing national VPH units, and clarify the role and structure of VPH units in the context of their contribution to health care, recognizing that their mandate extends beyond a given sector and beyond control of NZDs.
• Promote advocacy to emphasize the burden of NZDs on society and to create demand at all levels of society for control of NZDs.
• Develop or update guidelines for surveillance, prevention and control of specific NZDs and conduct, maintain and report inventories of activities and tools to control NZDs.

Contact

NTDnzdMail@who.int

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The American Journal of Medicine, March 2008

One Health Commission Established (USA)

http://www.avma.org/onlnews/javma/aug09/090801a.asp

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

August 1, 2009

2009 Karl F. Meyer - James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Awarded “One Health” advocate Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD (TB Expert) at AVMA Conference in Seattle July 11, 2009

http://www.avma.org/press/releases/090711_convention_awards.asp#gold

This annual award recognizes and honors the achievements of an individual concerned with animal health that have significantly advanced human health through the practice of veterinary epidemiology and public health.

... [Dr. Thoen] was recently invited to serve as the primary author of a monograph, "Tuberculosis: a Re-emerging Disease in Animals and Humans" for One Health/One Medicine [Veterinaria Italiana Journal – Edited by the Kahn-Kaplan-Monath One Health team], and is currently an associate editor of The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease…

Please see:

http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/135.htm

 Cancer Therapy Vol. 6, 817-826, 2008 - Permission Granted

Of Mice and Men (and Dogs): development of a xenogeneic DNA vaccine for canine oral malignant melanoma. 

Philip J. Bergman, DVM, MS, PhD and Jedd D. Wolchok, MD, PhD

Provided by: Philip J. Bergman, DVM, MS, PhD

Press Release January, 2009

Book Signing Announced for Jim Steele

Biography

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Meeting, Seattle, July 11-14, 2009

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Book Signing Announced for Jim Steele

Biography

American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Meeting July 11-14, 2009 in Seattle

ONE MAN, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH: The James H. Steele Story

Craig Nash Carter, DVM, PhD

With Cynthia Gregg Hoobler, DVM, MPH

Centre for Public Health, Zoonoses Launched at University of Guelph’s Ontario Veterinary College

May 04, 2009 - News Release

http://www.uoguelph.ca/news/2009/05/centre_for_publ.html

As stated in the News Release (please see entire notice in link above) and repeated in full on this One Health Initiative’s website Publication page HTM View…A one-of-a-kind centre aimed at preventing and controlling emerging animal-related diseases that threaten public health has officially opened at the University of Guelph.

The Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses brings together scientists in a variety of fields to address new or re-emerging zoonotic diseases (those that can jump between animals and humans) such as the H1N1 flu virus, bird flu, E. coli 0157:H7 and West Nile virus…

Please see Centre For Public Health & Zoonoses  website for further information.

University of Guelph
Guelph, ON N1G 2W1

http://www.ovc.uoguelph.ca/cphaz/