One Health Commission Summit

The purpose of the One Health Summit is to raise awareness of the importance of enhanced integration of human health, animal health, and ecosystem health sciences and to foster communication and collaboration among the participants to more effectively work to build the One Health model.

• Join experts with varied global One Health expertise from the private and public sectors for thought-provoking discussions on how we can work together to improve the health of people, domestic animals, wildlife, and our ecosystems
• One-half day Summit, from 7:30 AM to 12:00 PM, in the main auditorium of the National Academy of Sciences

Please visit the One Health Commission Summit Website (www.onehealthcommission.org) for more information on this unique and powerful event. It will be updated regularly with the speakers and agenda. You may also register for the One Health Commission Summit at www.onehealthcommission.org/summit.html

FAO concerned as pig disease jumps from southern Russia to the Baltic

The deadly pig disease African Swine Fever (ASF) has jumped 2,000 kilometres from southern Russia to St Petersburg in north-western Russia.

The latest outbreak was found near the Baltic city on October 20 confirming the worst fears of FAO experts who have been tracking the virus in Georgia and neighbouring countries for several years.

The danger is that ASF - which can not be transmitted to humans - could spread to other regions including the European Union countries, Eastern Europe, the Black Sea basin countries and - in the worst case scenario – central Asia and even China, which has the largest pig population in the world.

Swine Flu in Iran

A school closed for swine flu in Tehran. One student died.
Swine Flu in Iran reached 1196.

2009 Ig Nobel Prize for veterinary scientists

The Ig Nobels are awarded since 1991 each October from Oslo and Stockholm and are presented at a ceremony at Harvard for ‘research that makes people laugh as well as think’. The categories awarded are: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Literature, Mathematics, Medicine, Peace, Physics, Public Health, and Veterinary Medicine.

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes were awarded on October 1st and this years winner of the category in Veterinary Medicine were Catherine Bertenshaw [Douglas] and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, UK, for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless. The scientific work had been published under the title "Exploring Stock Managers' Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production," Anthrozoos, vol. 22, no. 1, March 2009, pp. 59-69.

Peter Rowlinson attended the ceremony, but Catherine Douglas, a new mother, sent a photo of herself, a cow and her new daughter dressed in a cow suit.

Vets Welcome TB Eradication Group For England Progress Report

Vets have welcomed the publication of the progress report for the Bovine Tuberculosis Eradication Group for England (TBEG). The British Veterinary Association (BVA) and British Cattle Veterinary Association (BCVA) are pleased at the consensus arrived at by TBEG (made up of representatives from Defra's Food and Farming Group, Animal Health, the farming industry and the veterinary profession), which recognises the limitations of the measures available to the Group.

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