March 2020 ZOHU Call

Overview
  • Mammal decline, linked to invasive Burmese python, shifts host use of vector mosquito towards reservoir hosts of a zoonotic disease
  • Companion Animals and Domestic Violence as a One Health Issue
  • Psittacosis Outbreak among Workers at Chicken Slaughter Plants, Virginia and Georgia, USA, 2018

Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Continuing Education availability has expired for this webinar.

Presentations:

One Health News from CDC
Casey Barton Behravesh, MS, DVM, DrPH, DACVPM
Captain, U.S. Public Health Service
Director, One Health Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
dlx9@cdc.gov

Mammal decline, linked to invasive Burmese python, shifts host use of vector mosquito towards reservoir hosts of a zoonotic disease
Nathan Burkett-Cadena, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory
nburkettcadena@ufl.edu

Companion Animals and Domestic Violence as a One Health Issue
Melinda D. Merck, DVM
Forensic Veterinarian
Veterinary Forensics Consulting, LLC
catdvm@drmerck.com

Psittacosis Outbreak among Workers at Chicken Slaughter Plants, Virginia and Georgia, USA, 2018
Julia M. Murphy, DVM, MS, DACVPM
State Public Health Veterinarian
Virginia Department of Health
julia.murphy@vdh.virginia.gov

Resources

Mammal decline, linked to invasive Burmese python, shifts host use of vector mosquito towards reservoir hosts of a zoonotic disease

Companion Animals and Domestic Violence as a One Health Issue

Psittacosis Outbreak among Workers at Chicken Slaughter Plants, Virginia and Georgia, USA, 2018

Overall series objectives:

  1. Describe 2 key points from the presentation.
  2. Describe how a multisectoral One Health approach can be applied to the presentation topic.
  3. Identify an implication for animal and human health.
  4. Identify a One Health approach strategy for prevention, detection, or response to public health threats.
  5. Identify 2 new resources from CDC partners.

Objectives Covered:

  • Mammal decline, linked to invasive Burmese python, shifts host use of vector mosquito towards reservoir hosts of a zoonotic disease – objectives 1,2,3,4
  • Companion Animals and Domestic Violence as a One Health Issue – objectives 2,3
  • Psittacosis Outbreak among Workers at Chicken Slaughter Plants, Virginia and Georgia, USA, 2018 – objectives 1,2

Disclosures:

In compliance with continuing education requirements, all presenters must disclose any financial or other associations with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters as well as any use of unlabeled product(s) or product(s) under investigational use.

CDC, our planners, presenters, and their spouses/partners wish to disclose they have no financial interests or other relationships with the manufacturers of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services, or commercial supporters.

Planning committee reviewed content to ensure there is no bias.

The presentations will not include any discussion of the unlabeled use of a product or a product under investigational use.

CDC did not accept commercial support for this activity.