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Brief overview of bovine brucellosis: The Kenyan perspective
Brucellosis is the most common and widespread of all bacterial zoonotic infections affecting man, livestock and wild animals (OIE., 2012; Corbel., 2006 and FAO., 2003) with significant socio-economic impacts and human suffering in endemic areas (Young., 1995; Boschiroli et al., 2001; McDermott., 2013). In Kenya, the nationwide prevalence of brucellosis in animals is unknown (ZDU., 2015) but the Zoonotic Disease Unit (ZDU) is in the process of determining the national prevalence and incidence through the current and ongoing study at Kajiado county in Kenya. Previous work by ZDU on brucellosis has been published on June this year 2015 as, “Sero-prevalence of Brucellosis in Humans and their Animals: A Linked Cross-sectional Study in Two Selected Counties in Kenya”
What are the alternatives for a Global One Health Governance Body?
Since there is no blueprint for making ‘One Health‘ operational, I agree with the Atlanta Report by Normandeau (2011) that the alternative is to have a ‘One Health Global Guidance Group’-G3 that will provide neutrality, credibility and built on the existing international, regional and sub-national platforms for interaction and outreach such as EcoHealth, so as to find practicable approaches that factor in the needs of all “actors” in developed and developing worlds.
Should we have a Global One Health Governance Body or not?
To start as off lets first adopt a definition for One Health as a movement dedicated to building new levels of trust and transparency between disciplines, nations, organizations, and people. Moreover, that One Health is a rational way of thinking that mirrors the reality of people‘s lives and livelihoods. Lets come back to our question, is leadership essential to One Health‘? Should we have a Global One Health Governance Body? Let‘s proceed and try to answer this question in the next few paragraphs.
What can people from different disciplines contribute to One Health?
For the One Health concept to move from “Vision to Fashion” an inter and cross disciplinary true partnership and cooperation is warranted among (but not limited to) the following disciplines:
Can we learn more about human cancer from dogs?
The study of cancer through comparative oncology (study of cancers in both humans and animals), in recent times, has provided invaluable insights on how the pet-dog is not only man’s companion, but also plays an integral role in improving human health and well-being. More importantly, reiterating the added value of One Health (which is a collaborative and multidisciplinary approach to solving societal challenges) by acting or having the potential to act as sentinels (early warning systems) and models for studying, early diagnosis and treatment of human cancer.
ABCs for Disease Control and Prevention
Vaccinate your livestock, your pets and your self against common vaccine-preventable diseases e.g. rabies. Picture this: you did not vaccinate your dog, it gets rabid, it goes ahead to bite your neighbour and a kid in the neighbourhood. The full course of PEP against rabies for your 2 neighbours will cost close to Kshs 30,000. Not forgetting the danger of losing your dog too! You could have prevented all these costs and losing your dog if you had just spent between Kshs 100-2000 in vaccinating your dog and protecting it for a whole year!
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LETS COLLABORATE
Visit our Transdisciplinary Consultants website to learn more about collaborative One Health research opportunities in Animal Welfare, One Health, Veterinary Medicine, community engagement and science communication. Focussed to provide proof of concept of the added value of One Health and One Welfare, in that better health for animals translates to a sustainable better human and environmental health.
ONE HEALTH CONSULTANCY
We offer One Health consultancy service through the Transdisciplinary Consultants on One Health surveillance, One Health evaluation antimicrobial resistance, zoonotic diseases, infectious diseases, data analysis, public science communication, comparative oncology and data collection tools development. We also offer free mentorship on One Health to any individual working on any One Health related project or work.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA DESIGN & MANAGEMENT
We have a track record of designing and managing organisational and individual websites both in unilingual and multilingual. Our portfolio features some of the websites our team has developed. They are modern, stylish, elegant and mobile friendly. We also offer a one-month post-service consultation and free added services (such as free training to bring your team up to speed).
MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH
Comparative cancer research: Our work seeks to explore how animals can be sentinels and models for human cancer. Our team is participating in the Global Initiative of Veterinary Cancer Surveillance.
Field data collection: ready to collect data for you utilizing high tech data collection tools such as ODK, KoBoToolbox, EpiCollect
Data analysis: experienced in quantitative and qualitative data analysis utilizing modern cutting edge tools such as R, SPSS, NVivo among others
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