One World, One Health, One Medicine

Question 1

Outline the one health concept

Answer 1

The one health concept recognizes the inter relationship between animal, human and environmental health

Question 2

What are some ways humans and animals interact?

Answer 2

1. Companion
2. Sports
3. Food
4. Research
5. Ecological

Question 3

What are microbes?

Answer 3

Small living organisms and can only be seen with a microscope

Question 4

Why are some microbes useful?

Answer 4

Can be useful for making foods such as yogurt, bread, beer wine and soy sauce

Question 5

Why are some microbes bad?

Answer 5

Can cause food poisoning such as Campylobacter, E. Coli, Salmonella and listeria

Question 6

Where do food poisoning microbes come from?

Answer 6

1. Soils and manures
2. Untreated water
3. Skin, fur, feathers, hair, bowel, mucus and blood of animals, humans, birds and insects

Question 7

How do food poisoning microbes get in the kitchen?

Answer 7

1. On raw meats
2. On unwashed fruits and vegetables
3. On people’s bodies, boxes and clothing
4. On unwashed hands
5. On animals and insects

Question 8

What are some typical food concerns?

Answer 8

-Infectious diseases

E. coli
Campylobacter app.

-Parasitic diseases
T. saginata/solium
C. parvum

• Toxic residues
  antibiotics
  Hormonal

Question 9

What are zoonotic diseases?

Answer 9

Any infectious disease that is naturally transmitted(vector) from vertebrate animals, both wild and domestic, to humans

Question 10

How much of known human infectious diseases are zoonotic?

Answer 10

60%

Question 11

How much of the diseases in recent years( past 10 years) behave had an animal source?

Answer 11

75%

Question 12

How are zoonoses diseases often contracted in developed countries?

Answer 12

• direct contact with pets

- consumption of contaminated food of animal origin

Question 13

How are zoonoses diseases contracted in developing countries?

Answer 13

Direct contact with farm or wild animals and their products

Question 14

Describe how the One Health concept has been enacted

Answer 14

• Convergence of human and animal health
• Collaboration between human veterinary medicine
• joint educational efforts
• joint efforts in prevention, management and control of zoonotic diseases

Question 15

Why and when was the belief in miasma used in medicine?

Answer 15

Why?- it successfully explained many observations on the contagion of fevers(Mal Aria), plague and even dysentery

When- it was vogue from the 16th century through the 19th century

Question 16

With the belief in miasmas, how were the cause of diseases explained?

Answer 16

Diseases caused by “bad” or unsalubrious environments, usually atmospheres

Question 17

In germ theory what does Koch postulate?

Answer 17

1. The same microorganism must be found in all cases of a given disease
2. This organism must be absent in all normal, un-diseases individual
3. The organism must be grown in isolation under laboratory conditions, for generations
4. When re-introduced into the host animal, it must produce the same disease as #1

Steps #1 through #4 must be serially repeatable indefinitely

Question 18

Give 2 examples infectious diseases in foods

Answer 18

E. Coli

Campylobacter app.

Question 19

Give 2 examples of parasitic diseases from food

Answer 19

T. Saginaw/solium

C. parvum

Question 20

Good be 2 examples of tpdic residues found in food

Answer 20

Antibiotic

Hormonal

Question 21

What is a zoonotic disease?

Answer 21

Any infectious disease that is naturally transmitted (vector) from vertebrate animals, both wild and domestic to humans

Question 22

How much of known human infectious diseases are zoonotic?

Answer 22

60% of known human infectious diseases

Question 23

Give examples of zoonotic diseases

Answer 23

Influenzas, hemorrhagic fevers, vector borne

Question 24

How much of the recent diseases(past 10 years) have an animal source?

Answer 24

75%

Question 25

What aids zoonoses diseases in developed countries?

Answer 25

• direct contact with pets

- consumption of contaminated food of animal origin

Question 26

What aids zoonoses diseases in developing countries?

Answer 26

-direct contact with farm or wild animals and their products

Question 27

Describe the one health concept

Answer 27

• Convergence of human and animal health
• Collaborate between human and veterinary medicine
• joint educational efforts
• Joint efforts in prevention, management and control of zoonotic diseases