May 2020 ZOHU Call

Overview
  • COVID-19 in Animals: A One Health Approach to Learning about an Emerging Zoonotic Disease
  • SARS-CoV-2: USDA Response
  • Precautions When Caring for Suspected SARS-CoV-2 Infected Animals: Veterinary Facilities and In-Home Isolation

Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020

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

COVID-19 in Animals: A One Health Approach to Learning about an Emerging Zoonotic Disease
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

SARS-CoV-2: USDA Response
Mia Kim Torchetti, DVM, MS, PhD
Director, Diagnostic Virology Laboratory
National Veterinary Services Laboratories
United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Mia.Kim.Torchetti@usda.gov
&
Christina M. Loiacono, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Coordinator, National Animal Health Laboratory Network
National Centers for Animal Health
United States Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Christina.M.Loiacono@usda.gov

Precautions When Caring for Suspected SARS-CoV-2 Infected Animals: Veterinary Facilities and In-Home Isolation
Ryan M. Wallace, DVM, MPH
Veterinary Epidemiologist, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch
Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology
National Center for Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
euk5@cdc.gov

Resources

COVID-19 in Animals: A One Health Approach to Learning about an Emerging Zoonotic Disease

SARS-CoV-2: USDA Response

Precautions When Caring for Suspected SARS-CoV-2 Infected Animals: Veterinary Facilities and In-Home Isolation

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.

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.