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One Health Headlines: Friday, October 21, 2011

October 21, 2011 | Michael San Filippo | Leave a comment

I spend so much time scanning the news and searching for One Health stories that it’s always a nice surprise when those stories come to me. That was the case earlier this week, when, upon turning on the radio, I heard microbiologist Nathan Wolfe being interviewed and discussing his work studying how viruses emerge from animals into human populations around the world.

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H1N1 update

September 23, 2011 | Dr. Kimberly May | Leave a comment

Although the pandemic (worldwide epidemic) of 2009 H1N1 influenza was declared over by the World Health Organization in late 2010, the virus is still around…and as flu season approaches, we may still see cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza infection in people and/or animals. Cats (domestic as well as wild/big cats), pigs and ferrets are at highest risk of infection with the virus, but it has also been reported in a dog and some other animal species.

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Contagion…in real life?

August 29, 2011 | Dr. Kimberly May | 3 Comments

I recently saw a trailer for the upcoming release of a movie called “Contagion.” Based on what I’ve seen so far, it’s a disaster movie based on a worldwide outbreak of an extremely nasty version of bird flu. I’m sure they’ve taken the regular Hollywood liberties when it comes to presenting the story.After all, that’s what sells.

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Feed a fever, starve a cold…and exercise a flu?

December 10, 2009 | Editor | Leave a comment

As if we need another reason to exercise, scientists have found that exercise boosts the immune systems of mice and helps them fight off the flu.  Mice that were exercising regularly didn’t get as sick as non-exercising mice when they were all exposed to a flu virus.

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Saved by….swine?

October 1, 2009 | Editor | Leave a comment

This is no pig in a poke. These pigs may actually one day save us humans from the poke – the poke of a needle that is. With the H1N1 virus creating fears that this fall’s flu season could be one of the worst on record, scientists are working on everything from vaccines to how to test for the virus. Drs. Bob Rowland and Dick Hesse, veterinarians at the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine, are working with the New York State Department of Health to improve the ways in which the H1N1 virus is identified. Their latest efforts include a diagnostic method for pigs that analyzes saliva rather than blood. This less-invasive collection procedure for pigs may lead to the same type of testing for people.

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