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  • Emerging Viral Diseases: Workshop Summary

    Emerging Viral Diseases: The One Health Connection: Workshop Summary

    Institute of Medicine

    Released March 26 2015

    Viruses have caused some of the most dramatic and deadly disease pandemics in human history
    At the time of this Forum workshop, March 18 and 19, 2014, the diseases that the Forum focused their attention on were the emergence of the MERS coronavirus in the Middle East and the H7N9 Influenza A virus in China. The Agenda of this meeting examined factors driving the appearance, establishment, and spread of emerging, reemerging, and novel viral diseases; the global health and economic impacts of recently emerging and novel viral diseases in humans; and the scientific and policy approaches to improving domestic and international capacity to detect and respond to global outbreaks of infectious disease. Ironically neither of these diseases has grown from regional to global concerns. Instead, On August 8, 2014, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be a “public health emergency of international concern,” triggering powers under the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR). As of 26 March 2015, there have been over 25,000 cases and over 10,000 deaths due to Ebola virus disease since it was first reported in West Africa in March 2014.  This will be the subject of a future Forum workshop summary report.Read more about this workshop summary report here.

  • Upcoming Events 15 Jun

    The following events have been added to the NEOH website recently:

    Emerging Viruses 2015

    Abstract deadline: 30 June 2015

    Date: 27-29 July 2015

    Location:  Nottingham, UK

    http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/emerging-viruses-2015/

    North-South Health Collaboration – Towards a Transboundary Symbiosis

    Date: 24th Aug (invitation only), 25th Aug (open to public), 26th Aug (invitation only)

    Location: University of Zürich, Switzerland

    http://neoh.onehealthglobal.net/our-events/north-south-health-collaboration-towards-a-transboundary-symbiosis/

     

  • One Health Article – Pig Viruses

    An Irish team of researchers (including two NEOH members) has published a new One Health article:

    “Detection and characterisation of novel bocavirus (genus Bocaparvovirus) and gastroenteritis viruses from asymptomatic pigs in Ireland”.

    It is now available in Infection Ecology & Epidemiology. You can find the article online by following this link: http://www.infectionecologyandepidemiology.net

  • One Health Education

    Members from IVSA and IFSMA including medic and vet students are calling for One Health education.

    Please see their presentation that was given at the One Health Conference in Madrid: http://www.worldvet.org/uploads/docs/21_krones_essafi.pdf