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FAO To Launch ‘One Health’ Action Plan For Agric Sector
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has held a day’s consultative meeting with stakeholders in the Agriculture sector to assess Ghana’s situation with regard to Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) to enable it to begin the process of developing a “One Health” National Action Plan to address threats in agriculture and public health sectors in Ghana.
Rabies Just Can’t Get Any Respect
What does a killer disease have to do to get attention these days? Last year, people watched with horror as Ebola ravaged West Africa and spread fear around the globe. Now it’s the turn of the upstart Zika virus to grab the headlines as an international health emergency.
Meanwhile, I’ve just been quietly doing my thing, killing about 60,000 people per year in the most gruesome way imaginable. But hey, I’m just rabies — nothing to get worked up over, right?
Vietnam responses to animal health and zoonoses
The government has approved the draft content of an agreement on establishing an ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Animal Health and Zoonoses (ACCAHZ) in Vietnam. A zoonosis is an infectious disease of an animal that can be transmitted to human beings.
Webinar: Physicians, Farmers, and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance
Webinar: Physicians, Farmers, and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance (14/April/2016).
Dr. Kahn will share ‘preview’ insights from her upcoming book on this topic to be released in August. This event is hosted by the One Health Academy in Washington D.C. but can be viewed, free, online in real time.
What’s your workplace thinking style?
Are you an optimizer or a connector? An explorer or an expert?
Pinpointing exactly what type of thinker you are could help not only you, but your entire organization, argue two experts in an article for Harvard Business Review. Most organizations use a standard set of tools to form, manage and motivate teams. However, they often overlook how people think.
“Today’s marketplace, the smartest companies aren’t those that necessarily out-produce the competition. Instead, it’s the organizations that outthink them,” Mark Bonchek and Elisa Steele write.
Malignant Transformation of Hymenolepis nana in a Human Host
A 41-year-old man in Medellín went to the doctor complaining of fever, cough, fatigue and weight loss that had lasted several months. Scans revealed tumors in his lungs, liver, adrenal glands, lymph nodes and other spots in his body. The disease looked like cancer, but it puzzled doctors: the small cells in the growths weren’t human cancer cells.
DNA analysis revealed a shock: The cancer cells came from dwarf tapeworms (Hymenolepis nana), pathologist Atis Muehlenbachs of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues report in the Nov. 5 New England Journal of Medicine. Contagious cancers affect dogs, Tasmanian devils and clams, but this is the first time researchers have found a parasite giving a person cancer.
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