اخبار دامپزشکي ايران و جهان: 2009/07

2009/07/31

نايب رئيس كميسيون برنامه و بودجه در گفت و گو با خبرگزاري فارس:سازمان دامپزشكي و موسسه سرم‌سازي به وزارت سلامت مي‌پيوندند

نايب رئيس كميسيون برنامه و بودجه مجلس گفت: با تصويب كميسيون بهداشت و درمان مجلس و در صورت تصويب صحن مجلس، سازمان دامپزشكي كشور و موسسه تحقيقاتي واكسن و سرم سازي رازي زير وزارت جديد سلامت ، رفاه و تامين اجتماعي قرار مي‌گيرند.

عليرضا منادي در گفت‌وگو با خبرنگار خبرگزاري فارس، با بيان اين كه يك فوريت طرح ادغام وزارتخانه‌هاي بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشكي و رفاه و تامين اجتماعي در كميسيون تخصصي بهداشت و درمان مجلس تصويب شده است، گفت: بر اساس اين طرح سازمان دامپزشكي كشور و موسسه تحقيقاتي و واكسن و سرم‌ساي رازي از زير مجموعه وزارت جهاد كشاورزي جدا شده و به وزارت جديد سلامت منتقل شدند.
نايب رئيس كميسيون برنامه و بودجه مجلس خاطر نشان كرد: پيش از 80 درصد وظايف سازمان دامپزشكي كشور مرتبط با بحث بهداشت جامعه و مسووليت‌هاي وزارت بهداشت است.
نماينده مردم تبريز در مجلس گفت: از هزار و 800 نوع بيماري انسان بيش از 50 درصد يعني 832 بيماري مشترك بين انسان و دام هستند كه منشاء آنها فرآورده‌هاي خام دامي مانند گوشت، شير و فرآورده‌هاي پروتئين دام است.
منادي گفت: بعد از تصويب كميسيون بهداشت و درمان مجلس اين طرح در صحن مجلس مطرح مي‌شود و با توجه به اين كه مخالفت جدي با آن وجود ندارد، پيش بيني مي‌شود در جلسه علني مجلس هم به تصويب برسد.
وي اين ادغام را گام مهمي در جهت اعتلاي سلامت جامعه و توجه به ريشه ايجاد سلامت يعني بحث بهداشت در بخش دام و فرآورده‌هاي دامي دانست و گفت: همچنين اگر انتقال سازمان دامپزشكي به وزارت سلامت مخالفت شود، پيشنهاد مي‌كنيم با توجه به اهميت بهداشت عمومي، وظايف دامپزشكي در زيرمجموعه يك معاونت به طور مستقيم زير نظر رياست جمهور متمركز شود.

اجراي دستورالعمل امتياز بندي صدور و تمديد پروانه‌هاي اشتغال

به گزارش روابط عمومي و امور بين الملل سازمان نظام دامپزشكي ج.ا.ا دستورالعمل امتياز بندي صدور و تمديد پروانه‌هاي اشتغال به امور درماني، بيمارستان، درمانگاه، داروخانه، آزمايشگاه و مراكز مايه كوبي از سوي رئيس سازمان نظام دامپزشكي ج.ا.ا جهت اجراء به شوراي نظام دامپزشكي استانها ابلاغ شد.

بنا بر اين گزارش دستورالعمل فوق شامل امتيازات لازم جهت صدور و يا تمديد پروانه اشتغال ، نحوه توزيع امتيازات، جدول امتيازات عمومي و امتيازات آموزشي جهت صدور پروانه مي‌باشد.

اين گزارش مي‌افزايد: دريافت پروانه فعاليت در شهر تهران نيازمند 200 امتياز ، كلان شهرها 150 امتياز ، مراكز استان‌هاي غير كلان شهر 100 امتياز، شهرستان‌ها 75 امتياز و مناطق محروم 50 امتياز مي‌باشد.
مشاهده دستورالعمل امتياز بندي صدور و تمديد پروانه‌هاي اشتغال

2009/07/30

Swine flu

Number of Swine flu in Iran reached 61.

2009/07/29

Weekly Disease Information

Swine flu in Iran

Swine flu in Iran reached 44.

2009/07/26

Swine flu in iran

Swine flu in iran reached 23.
One internal transition of disease reported.This person given to sickness from his sister came from HAJ

2009/07/25

مرگ گوساله شبیه سازی شده

اولین گوسال شبیه سازی شده بعد 4 روز درگذشت. دومین گوساله شبیه سازی شده هم امروز متولد شد.

2009/07/22

First stimulant cattle in Iran

نخستین گوساله شبیه‌سازی‌شده خاورمیانه با نام بنیانا در دویست و هفتادمین روز دوران بارداری در مجتمع دامپروری نصر اصفهان متولد شد.

Swine flu in Iran reached 16

با تایید قطعی 7 مورد جدید ابتلاء به بیماری آنفلوانزای خوکی ازجانب آزمایشگاه مرکزی ، تعداد مبتلایان به این بیماری به 16 مورد در ایران رسید.

به گزارش باشگاه خبرنگاران، به نقل از روابط عمومی وزارت بهداشت ، درمان و آموزش پزشکی : همه 7 بیمار جدید مبتلا به بیماری آنفلوانزای نوع A از سفر حج عمره به ایران بازگشته اند.

در اجلاس اضطراری وزرای بهداشت منطقه مدیترانه شرقی سازمان جهانی بهداشت که امروز با حضور وزیر بهداشت ایران در مصر برگزار می شود با توجه به شیوع این بیماری در کشورهای منطقه در خصوص اقدامات پیشگیرانه لازم تصمیم گیری خواهد شد.

پیشتر دکتر لنکرانی در نامه ای به رئیس سازمان حج و زیارت ممنوعیت اعزام گروههای پرخطر به حج را اعلام کرده است.

وزارت بهداشت ، درمان و آموزش پزشکی همچنین به منظور پیشگیری از گسترش این بیماری به هموطنان به ویژه کسانی که از سفر حج عمره به کشور بازگشته اند، اکیداً توصیه کرده است که از دست دادن و روبوسی با افراد خودداری کنند.

این وزارتخانه همچنین بر رعایت فاصله با افراد مبتلا تأکید کرده و یادآور شده است که برای پیشگیری از سرایت این بیماری، استفاده از دستمال در هنگام عطسه و شستن دستها پس از تماس با اشیاء فرد مبتلا ضروری است چرا که ویروس این بیماری تا 2 ساعت بر روی اشیاء ، زنده باقی می ماند.

وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشکی با تأکید بر این مطلب که در منطقه مدیترانه شرقی که شامل 22 کشور بوده و 550 میلیون نفر جمعیت دارد، بیش از 700 مورد ابتلا به این بیماری در آن گزارش شده است که خوشبختانه تاکنون هیچ مورد مرگ و میری در این منطقه و از جمله کشور ما (با 16 مورد ابتلا) وجود نداشته است.

Iran’s swine flu cases increase to 9

Iran’s swine flu cases increase to 9: minister
Tehran Times Health Desk

TEHRAN - Health Minister Kamran Baqeri-Lankarani stated here on Tuesday that 9 cases of swine flu have been detected in Iran.

“In addition to the first infected Iranian and the two others who had been announced previously… the disease has been confirmed in 6 others and the number infected (people) has increased to 9,” Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) quoted the minister as saying.

Lankarani added none of the detected cases have been infected in Iran.

The first case was a teenager who lives in the United States and the two others have been Haj pilgrims, he said.

He also stated that all the patients have received full treatments and their health conditions are satisfactory.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the health minister said it has not been decided whether Iranian pilgrims will be allowed to travel to Saudi Arabia for this year’s hajj due to the risk of the spread of swine flu.

He added he will have meetings with the health ministers of the east Mediterranean countries member to the World Health Organization to decide about this year’s hajj.

2009/07/20

Weekly Disease Information

2009/07/14

Discovery Of Ebola In Pigs Raises Concerns

Scientists studying a strain of Ebola virus found in domestic pigs in the Philippines last year suggest that although the particular strain is not one linked to disease in humans its emergence in the human food chain is cause for concern.

The investigation was the work of scientists from the US Department of Agriculture at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the Department of Agriculture in the Philippines and is published as a paper in the 10 July issue of Science.

Ebola and Marburg viruses belong to the filovirus family, which cause hemorrhagic fever, characterized by bleeding, vomiting and diarrhea, and a 90 per cent death rate.

Outbreaks of infection appear to happen in humans and primates at random, making it very important to locate sources of host organisms that could be acting as potential reservoirs.

Ebola-Reston was found in pigs raised on farms near Manila, the capital of the Philippines after farmers reported high rates of sickness and deaths among their livestock in May 2008. The infected pigs were originally investigated because they were experiencing an unusually severe outbreak of porcine reproductive and respiratory disease syndrome.

Reston is deadly in monkeys but doesn't appear to infect humans: it is the only member of the filovirus family that does not, said the authors, who nevertheless expressed concern that it has emerged in the human food chain.

When they studied isolates of the virus taken from pig samples, the researchers found that they were more divergent from each other than from the original strain isolated in 1989, when Reston was first identified in crab-eating macaques imported to the US from the Philippines (Reston is the place in Virginia where the lab was based that first spotten the new strain).

When you have isolates that are more different from each other than from an original strain, it indicates they have multiple ancestral origins (they did not descend in a neat line from generation to generation). This suggests, said the authors, that the Ebola-Reston isolated from the pigs is a strain that has been around since before 1989 when Reston was first found in the crab-eating macaques.

Although Reston has not been found to cause deadly hemorrhagic fever in humans, when the researchers tested some of the pig farmers they found antibodies to Reston in their blood, suggesting pig-to-human transmission had taken place, even though the farmers showed no symptoms.

The concern is that pig herds could be convenient hosts for Reston to mutate into a form that does cause illness in humans, and also, if pigs can be hosts to Reston, as this outbreak reveals, then perhaps they could also be hosts to other Ebola strains that do cause harm to humans.

There are lots of unknowns, a lot more questions than answers, and this is the worry, said the researchers, because pigs are in the human food chain and there is lots of contact between pig herds and humans.

"Discovery of Swine as a Host for the Reston ebolavirus."
Roger W. Barrette, Samia A. Metwally, Jessica M. Rowland, Lizhe Xu, Sherif R. Zaki, Stuart T. Nichol, Pierre E. Rollin, Jonathan S. Towner, Wun-Ju Shieh, Brigid Batten, Tara K. Sealy, Consuelo Carrillo, Karen E. Moran, Alexa J. Bracht, Gregory A. Mayr, Magdalena Sirios-Cruz, Davinio P. Catbagan, Elizabeth A. Lautner, Thomas G. Ksiazek, William R. White, and Michael T. McIntosh.
Science 10 July 2009 325: 204- 206.
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172705

Sources: CDC, Science.

Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD
Copyright: Medical News Today
Not to be reproduced without permission of Medical News Today

When A Dog Bites

A pet bites a child, and the owner is faced with an excruciating decision: Is it safe to keep this dog?

For some, the answer is "no," and it's a decision reached more from the gut than from calm contemplation. But is that the right call to make? According to veterinarian Margaret Duxbury, not without a visit to the veterinarian.

"Given the important role dogs play in families and in critical social relationships for some people, aggressive dogs should not be euthanized unnecessarily," said Duxbury, a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Behavior. "As caring professionals, veterinarians should take the time to establish an accurate behavioral diagnosis that allows them to evaluate the expected clinical course and specific risk factors for that problem."

Any dog may bite, given the right - or wrong - circumstances, Duxbury said.

"There are many case examples where simply improving the owner's ability to understand, read and manage their dog resolves or sufficiently reduces the problem," she said.

Duxbury says the bottom line in coming to a decision to keep the dog, turn it over to a shelter or euthanize it, is risk.

"A number of specific factors can be used to evaluate the risks posed by a particular dog in a particular household," she says.

Duxbury will share her insights into dog-bite behavior and will dissect the factors that should be taken into account if a dog bites during a program on Saturday, July 11, at the 146th AVMA Annual Convention in Seattle, Wash.

"By evaluating these factors in a standardized way with all patients, practitioners will be better able to compare the aggressive dogs they see and to advise clients in ways that promote informed and realistic decisions," Duxbury said.

Among the factors a veterinarian and a pet owner should consider are size, sex, the context in which the bite took place, bite history, warning signs, household dynamics, the prognosis for improvement and breed.

But Duxbury, like many in the field of animal behavior, warns that any consideration of breed needs to be tempered by the facts.

"Owners often want to simplify the problem they face with their own dog by looking at its breed," she said. "Breed statistics for biting dogs can be misleading because they are gathered from data on reported bites when most bites go unreported, do not include information about the overall popularity of a breed in the area and often rely on untrained witnesses for breed identification. In most cases, a well-managed, socially competent dog presents a lower risk of biting regardless of breed. ... Any dog of any breed can inflict serious or fatal injury."

That's a message that Jane Berkey, president of the Animal Farm Foundation, Inc., also wants to share. Berkey will be presenting a program on dog breed-specific legislation during the Convention on Monday, July 13.

"Veterinarians, their clients and their clients' pets in 300 cities and towns in the United States live with special burdens and added costs because of ordinances banning or restricting dogs of one or more breeds and breed mixes," Berkey said. "Thirty-six breeds of dogs and mixes of those breeds have been restricted in various combinations and groupings. These restrictions and bans compromise the human-animal bond and complicate the professional landscape for veterinarians."

Berkey will trace what she calls "demonized" dogs who have been victimized over the years by their reputation. The list includes bloodhounds, German shepherds, Doberman pinschers, Rottweilers and pit-bull type breeds. She calls it an "environment of breed discrimination."

"Focusing on breed or phenotype diverts attention from strategies veterinarians and other animal experts have consistently identified as contributing to humane and safer communities," she said. "There is so much behavioral variability within each breed, and even more within breed mixes, that we cannot reliably predict a dog's behavior or suitability based on breed alone."

Source
American Veterinary Medical Association