scholarly journals One Health approach to companion carnivores with special regard to raw-feeding

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aziz Mouhanna ◽  
Ágnes Csivincsik
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
One Health ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Multidimensional Approach ◽  
Pet Food ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Pet Owners ◽  
Simple Activity ◽  
Few Data ◽  
The Right

Keeping and feeding of companion carnivores (dogs and cats) appear to be a simple activity for a shallow observer. By a multidimensional approach, all three domains of health can be analysed in the course of pet-feeding. The interest of animal health requires healthy, nutritious, and non-infectious pet food. At the same time, public health necessitates safety for pet owners and their families. By going much deeper, the environmental impacts of pets and pet foods can be identified. This review gathers the animal and human health and environmental aspects of domestic carnivore feeding. Based on the literature, it can be claimed that for the present, few data are available to determine the right way of feeding to reach the balance between all three domains of health.

A proposal to leverage high-quality veterinary diagnostic laboratory large data streams for animal health, public health, and One Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 104063872110030
Author(s):  
Craig N. Carter ◽  
Jacqueline L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Data Streams ◽  
One Health ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Large Data ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Zoonotic Diseases ◽  
Diagnostic Laboratory

Test data generated by ~60 accredited member laboratories of the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) is of exceptional quality. These data are captured by 1 of 13 laboratory information management systems (LIMSs) developed specifically for veterinary diagnostic laboratories (VDLs). Beginning ~2000, the National Animal Health Laboratory Network (NAHLN) developed an electronic messaging system for LIMS to automatically send standardized data streams for 14 select agents to a national repository. This messaging enables the U.S. Department of Agriculture to track and respond to high-consequence animal disease outbreaks such as highly pathogenic avian influenza. Because of the lack of standardized data collection in the LIMSs used at VDLs, there is, to date, no means of summarizing VDL large data streams for multi-state and national animal health studies or for providing near-real-time tracking for hundreds of other important animal diseases in the United States that are detected routinely by VDLs. Further, VDLs are the only state and federal resources that can provide early detection and identification of endemic and emerging zoonotic diseases. Zoonotic diseases are estimated to be responsible for 2.5 billion cases of human illness and 2.7 million deaths worldwide every year. The economic and health impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is self-evident. We review here the history and progress of data management in VDLs and discuss ways of seizing unexplored opportunities to advance data leveraging to better serve animal health, public health, and One Health.

scholarly journals Antimicrobial multidrug resistance in the era of COVID-19: a forgotten plight?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Pelfrene ◽  
Radu Botgros ◽  
Marco Cavaleri
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Multidrug Resistance ◽  
Regulatory Network ◽  
One Health ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Main Body ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global problem to which the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic may further contribute. With resources deployed away from antimicrobial stewardship, evidence of substantial pre-emptive antibiotic use in COVID-19 patients and indirectly, with deteriorating economic conditions fuelling poverty potentially impacting on levels of resistance, AMR threat remains significant. Main body In this paper, main AMR countermeasures are revisited and priorities to tackle the issue are re-iterated. The need for collaboration is stressed, acknowledging the relationship between human health, animal health and environment (“One Health” approach). Among the stated priorities, the initiative by the European Medicines Regulatory Network to further strengthen the measures in combatting AMR is highlighted. Likewise, it is asserted that other emerging health threats require global collaboration with the One Health approach offering a valuable blueprint for action. Conclusion The authors stress the importance of an integrated preparedness strategy to tackle this public health peril.

scholarly journals Humans, Animals, Food and Environment: One Health Approach against Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Antibiotics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 346
Author(s):  
Marcello Iriti ◽  
Sara Vitalini ◽  
Elena Maria Varoni
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
One Health ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Antimicrobial Drugs ◽  
Potential Source ◽  
Antibiotic Drugs ◽  
Hospital Stays ◽  
The One

Antimicrobial resistance represents one of the most relevant threats to global public health and food security, affecting anyone, of any age, in any country and is responsible for longer hospital stays, higher medical costs and increased mortality. Resistant microorganisms are present in humans, animals, food and the environment, and, therefore, the One Health approach is very promising to counteract antimicrobial resistance, since human health and animal health are connected to each other and with the environment and the latter a potential source of resistant microorganisms. In this context, the need for novel antimicrobial drugs has stimulated the exploration of plant products as a source of novel phytotherapeutics able to reverse antimicrobial resistance when used in combination with conventional antibiotic drugs.

The Concept And Methods Of Community Participation In Animal And Human Disease Surveillance

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musa Ibrahim Waziri ◽  
Kaltungo Bilkisu Yunusa
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Animal Diseases ◽  
Health Project ◽  
The Right ◽  
Animal Trade

Abstract Background: Animal health surveillance is essential to protecting public health, controlling animal diseases and accessing international animal trade with a view to ensuring food security. The practice of subsistent agriculture makes laboratory disease surveillance and statistics difficult or impracticable to implement. Many times, the information generated through conventional approach may not reflect true field situations. Therefore, animal health project interventions from conventional data may be difficult to implement. Community engagement, however, empowers and ensures lasting solutions to developmental challenges.Methods : Field experiences and a review of the origin, concepts, methods and tools of Participatory epidemiology (PE) in disease surveillance suggest their appropriate uses.Results : Community participation in animal and public health investigation, program design, implementation and monitoring is credited with ownership, acceptability and sustainability.Conclusion : This research highlights how and why participation is an essential component of a successful disease surveillance design and implementation. However, the success of any participatory program depends on understanding the bases and applications of the right tools.

scholarly journals Toward One Health: are public health stakeholders aware of the field of animal health?

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 24267
Author(s):  
Fernanda C. Dórea ◽  
Céline Dupuy ◽  
Flavie Vial ◽  
Tera L. Reynolds ◽  
Judy E. Akkina
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
One Health ◽  
Animal Health

scholarly journals Towards One Health: Increasing Awareness of Animal Health Among Public Health Stakeholders

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernanda C. Dórea ◽  
Céline Dupuy ◽  
Judy E. Akkina
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
One Health ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Public Health Importance ◽  
Animal Populations ◽  
Public Health Workers ◽  
The One ◽  
Great Public Health

The recent focus on the 'One Medicine' concept has resulted in an increased awareness that the control of diseases in animal populations, whether zoonotic or not, can be of great public health importance. However, awareness of the activities developed in the field of animal health is still low among public health workers. In this roundtable the facilitators will encourage discussion regarding what can public and animal health learn from each other, focusing particularly on how this cooperation can be promoted.

One Health – A New Paradigm in Fighting Infectious Diseases in West Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
One Health ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Laboratory Services ◽  
The One

Zoonotic infectious diseases have been an important concern to humankind for more than 10,000 years. Today, approximately 75% of newly emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) are zoonoses that result from various anthropogenic, genetic, ecologic, socioeconomic, and climatic factors. Zoonotic EIDs remain a major global concern, and such threats are expanding, especially in less developed regions. Current Ebola epidemic in West Africa is an extreme stark reminder of the role animal reservoirs play in public health, which reinforces the urgent need to operationalize a One Health approach. Building opportunities to overcome the challenges largely depends on four key capacity-building needs: (1) development of adequate science-based risk management policies, (2) skilled-personnel capacity building, (3) accredited veterinary and public health diagnostic laboratories with a shared database, and (4) improved use of existing natural resources and implementation. This paper highlights the key issues as building block for synthesis of the One Health approach to address the challenges and opportunities for tackling infectious diseases at the human, animal, and environment interface in low-resource settings. Health laboratory services are essential for the efficient delivery of quality and cost-effective healthcare. Training in laboratory services has long been a neglected part of the one health approach in countries like Sierra Leone. Njala University is actively working with other partners of Royal Netherlands Embassy (RNE) Post-Ebola Resilience Project, further reinforcing the One Health Concept by focusing on both human and animal health and its interface.

Exploring human and animal health

2017 ◽  
Vol 181 (16) ◽  
pp. i-i
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Veterinary Public Health ◽  
Health Association ◽  
The Right

One week studying veterinary public health may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but as Cambridge vet student Emma Simpson explains, for the eight students who attended this year’s Veterinary Public Health Association Masterclass in Edinburgh, it ticked all the right boxes

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