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    European Union - Better surveillance needed to fight spread of antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic infections

    18-Nov-2009
    The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) and the European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) have published a joint scientific opinion on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) focused on infections transmitted to humans from animals and food (zoonoses).

    European Union - EFSA: Technical specifications for harmonised national surveys on Yersinia enterocolitica in slaughter pigs

    13-Nov-2009
    Based on the opinion from the scientific panel on Biological Hazards on the monitoring and identification of human enteropathogenic Yersinia spp. (EFSA, 2007c), the Task Force on Zoonoses Data Collection was asked by the European Food Safety Authority to draft harmonised technical specifications to be used for national surveys for the monitoring and reporting of Yersinia enterocolitica in pig populations under the Directive 2003/99/EC (EC, 2003).

    USA - One Health Commission

    28-Aug-2009
    A new national commission, the One Health Commission, has been established to spotlight the connections between human, animal, and environmental health, as well as the benefits of proactive and collaborative approaches toward better health for all.

    North-American human influenza

    It is produced by a virus with genetic material from porcine, human and avian viruses which has shown the ability unusually for such a virus to transmit from human to human. The virus appears to have 2 of 8 gene segments that derive from eurasian swine viruses. The NA and matrix genes of the new virus have not been seen in humans or pigs before.

    Swine influenza: epidemiology and emergence of new viruses

    The first swine influenza viruses were all H1N1 and were for about 60 years in North America. In the middle 1980’s, there appeared in European pigs H3N2 viruses that were derived originally from humans and had adapted to pigs and were therefore known as human-like H3N2 viruses. These viruses have since appeared in other parts of the world most notably as H3N2 in the USA in 1998. These viruses however contained bits of human, avian and swine viruses and were therefore called triple re-assortants.