Zoonotic Disease Research Program Shut Down
The USAID ’s Predict program, which conducted animal virus surveillance and disease outbreak prevention training, is ending after its 10-year funding run. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - October 28, 2019 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news
Event 201: A Global Pandemic Exercise
Source: Center for Health Security [Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health]. Published: 10/18/2019.
This high-level pandemic exercise was held on October 18, 2019, in New York City to illustrate the pandemic preparedness efforts, response decisions, and cooperation required from global businesses, governments, and public health leaders that the world will need to diminish the large-scale economic and societal consequences of a severe pandemic. The exercise scenario simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmis...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - October 18, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Global Challenges for the ‘NextGen’
By Lindsay FalveyMELBOURNE, Oct 15 2019 (IPS) Success has many parents – so the saying goes. In the case of the massive successes of international agricultural research, no one person can claim parentage. There are heroes along the way such as Norman Borlaug and his early cereal breeding, and the team that eliminated the cattle disease Rinderpest from the world – smallpox is the only other disease that has been totally eradicated. Another is the founder of The Crawford Fund, Derek Tribe, who was also instrumental in the creation of what is now the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), which I chair. Howeve...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 15, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Lindsay Falvey Tags: Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Environment Featured Food & Agriculture Global Headlines Health Migration & Refugees Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Notes from the Field: Zoonotic Mycobacterium bovis Disease in Deer Hunters - Michigan, 2002-2017
In May 2017, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was notified of a case of pulmonary tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium bovis in a man aged 77 years. (Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - September 19, 2019 Category: American Health Tags: MMWR Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report Respiratory Illness Tuberculosis (TB) Zoonotic diseases Source Type: news
Animal Lovers and Zoonotic Diseases: 5 Things to Know Animal Lovers and Zoonotic Diseases: 5 Things to Know
Anybody who comes in contact with animals is at risk for zoonotic diseases, and this should be on every clinician ' s radar. Here are five things to know.CDC Expert Commentary (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - September 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases Article Source Type: news
Antigenic and Genetic Characteristics of Zoonotic Influenza A Viruses and Development of Candidate Vaccine Viruses for Pandemic Preparedness: September 2019
Source: World Health Organization (WHO). Published: 9/2019.
This nine-page document summarizes the genetic and antigenic characteristics of recent zoonotic influenza viruses and related viruses circulating in animals that are relevant to candidate vaccine virus updates. Zoonotic influenza viruses continue to be identified and evolve both genetically and antigenically, leading to the need for additional candidate vaccine viruses for pandemic preparedness purposes.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - September 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Tularemia - zoonosis carrying a potential risk of bioterrorism - Prok šová M, Bavlovič J, Klimentová J, Pejchal J, Stulík J.
Tularemia, otherwise known as “rabbit fever”, is a zoonotic disease caused by a gram-negative intracellular bacterium - Francisella tularensis. The species is considered as a potential bioterrorism agent due to its high infectivity, the fact of being r... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news
Africa: Special Edition - What Are the Symptoms and Effects of Ebola?
[The Conversation Africa] Janusz Paweska, head of the Centre for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in South Africa, discusses the terrible physical effects of Ebola. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 2, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Center for Zoonotic and Animal Disease Defense (ZADD) Fact Sheet
Source: U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Published: 8/2019.
This two-page fact sheet provides information about the Center for Zoonotic and Animal Disease Defense (ZADD), which develops innovative solutions and fosters collaborations to protect the nation ’s agriculture and public health sectors against high-consequence foreign animal, emerging, and zoonotic disease threats. The fact sheet lists the center's partners, and its research and education capabilities.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - August 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
A retrospective study of dog bite occurrence and anti-rabies vaccination of dogs in a state veterinary hospital in Ogoja, Cross River State, Nigeria - Isek TI, Umoh J, Dzikwi AA.
Rabies is one of the world's major zoonoses. Controlling rabies continues to pose a major public health challenge. The issues surrounding dog bites and the vaccination of dogs against rabies are important to consider in implementing programmes to control t... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Ebola in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Published: 6/19/2019.
This one-hour webinar from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Partners Information Connection (EPIC) and CDC ’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases discusses the current Ebola situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and how organizations sending U.S.-based workers to areas with Ebola can ensure the health and safety of their workers before, during, and after deploymen t. Speakers also address response efforts and challenges, and the travel health notice for the areas.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - June 19, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Technical Report: Third External Quality Assessment on Species Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Campylobacter, 2017
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 5/28/2019.
This 25-page report presents the results of the third round of the external quality assessment on antimicrobial susceptibility testing for national public health laboratories for Campylobacter (Campylobacter EQA3-AST) within the Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net). It is part of a European Union protocol for harmonized monitoring of antimicrobial resistance in human Salmonella and Campylobacter isolates. Campylobacteriosis, followed by salmonellosis, is the leading cause of zoonotic foodborne d...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 28, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Study reveals the evolution and diversity of Leptospira bacteria
(PLOS) Leptospirosis is an emerging zoonotic disease that affects more than one million people around the world each year. Researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have now sequenced the genomes of Leptospira collected from environments around the globe and revealed 30 new species and new patterns of species diversity. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - May 23, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Surveillance Report: Zoonotic Influenza; Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 5/2019.
This six-page report on cases of zoonotic influenza is based on data for 2018 retrieved on April 3, 2019. No human cases of avian influenza were reported in the European Union/European Economic Area in 2018. Only two human A(H7N9) infections were reported from China, a significant decrease compared with 2017.
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Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Surveillance Report: Zoonotic Influenza Annual Epidemiological Report for 2018
Source: European Union, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). Published: 5/2019.
This six-page report on cases of zoonotic influenza is based on data for 2018 retrieved on April 3, 2019. No human cases of avian influenza were reported in the European Union/European Economic Area in 2018. Only two human A(H7N9) infections were reported from China, a significant decrease compared with 2017.
(PDF) (Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 1, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
