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By Alasdair King
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The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.
Guest for World Rabies Day is Dr Deborah Nadal, and we discuss her learnings from her time in India which led to the publication of her book "Rabies in the Streets - Interspecies Camaraderie in Urban India."
See a video about her book at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIloLk_cRQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt or find further details at https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08595-1.html
With continued outbreaks of avian influenza, we posed some of your questions to Dr David Swayne, USDA. Dr Swayne is the Center Director of U.S. Department of Agriculture’s laboratory for poultry health research.
My apologies for the sound interference on my side of the discussion. I had decorators in the house, the squeaking and other noises are them on the ground floor above my recording studio.
A discussion with Professor Ian Brown of the Animal and Plant Health Authority regarding the on-going global avian influenza outbreak. We consider the international implications, and how this impacts national poultry farms, as well as discussing how to reduce the risk. In addition, an update on current events, including our recent One Health event on Vector Borne Diseases.
Link to One Health Event on Vector Borne Diseases - https://thevetexhibition.com/one-health
Link to FAO eLearning on AMR - https://bit.ly/3tCpQPy
Acronyms:
AI - Avian influenza
APHA - Animal and Plant Health Authority, UK
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
HPAI - High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza
LPAI - Low Pathogenicity Avian Influenza
offlu - OIE and FAO network of expertise on influenza
OIE - World Organization for Animal Health
A discussion with Captain Carl Thornton from Pit-Track, learning about their use of dogs, and the importance of keeping them healthy to protect the people and animals relying on them.
To find more information, or to support them, go to https://pittrack.org
In this episode of the emergence podcast I talk to Dr Monique Eloit, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health and Dr Bernadette Abela-Ridder, Team Leader for Neglected Zoonotic Diseases at the World Health Organisation, about rabies and global rabies control for World Rabies Day.
Links:
WHO rabies training: https://Openwho.org/courses/NTDs-Rabies-and-one-health
OIE rabies page: https://www.oie.int/en/disease/rabies/
Dr Deborah Nadal’s paper on rabies and the pandemic: https://doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/trab123
#rabies360challenge: https://www.emergence-msd-animal-health.com/event/raising-awareness-around-the-globe-with-rabies360challenge/
Acronyms:
GAVI: The Vaccine Alliance
OIE: World Organisation for Animal Health
WHO: World Health Organisation
In this episode we talk to Dr Felix Lankester about rabies in Africa and what is needed to eliminate this disease, including how to manage with cold chain challenges and new approaches to large scale vaccination campaigns.
We also talk about some of the news from the One Health world, and announce the newest recipients of the Rabies Hero Awards.
A discussion with Mr Benson Ameda about the role of paraprofessionals for animal health in Africa
Acronyms:
OIE: World Organisation for Animal Health
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
On One Health Day this emergence episode talks to Drs Tiziana Lembo and Divine Ekwem from Glasgow University about their project in Tanzania looking at Foot and Mouth Disease and impact at the community level, Dr Jenifer Chatfield Of Vet Candy about her experiences with One Health, and we announce the winners of this years World Rabies Day Awards.
The podcast currently has 21 episodes available.