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“One Health”: Dogs Are Also Affected by Bisphenol A
Bisphenol A, used in the manufacture of plastics and resins, is also found in dog food cans. Significant concentrations of this chemical have been found in the serum of these an...
Combating Zoonoses: A Three-Year Project Successfully Completed in Cambodia
Since late 2012, teams from Agronomes et vétérinaires sans frontières (AVSF) and Merial have been collaborating on an animal health and public health program aimed at developing...
Rabies: An Oral Vaccine Candidate Successfully Tested in an Endangered Wild Canid
Rabies continues to ravage the world, claiming between 60,000 and 70,000 lives each year, the majority of whom are children. Yet more than 95 percent of human rabies cases are c...
Rabies: a confirmed case in a bat in the Vendée region
A bat carrying the rabies virus was found in a weakened state on June 26, 2016, in a public park in Fontenay-le-Comte, in the Vendée region. The very next day after it was found...
Lyme disease: a zoonosis with many unknowns
Borreliosis is one of the underdiagnosed tick-borne diseases, especially in France. To raise awareness about this condition, which officially affects 27,000 people each year in...
Zoonoses: Predicting Future Outbreaks Through Global Modeling in Mammals
A team of researchers from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies and the University of Georgia (United States) used real-time medical databases to map the geographic ranges, d...
Therapy Dogs: Proven Benefits for Children with Cancer
Many hospitals that have opened their oncology departments to dogs report that patients benefit from this animal-assisted therapy. However, until now, few scientifically based s...
Rabies: Global Elimination of the Disease Is Possible, Provided the Resources Are Up to the Challenge
On this 9th World Rabies Day, four organizations involved in this global fight are calling on the international community to put an end to this deadly disease. Rabies is one of...
Usutu Virus: First Detection in France in Blackbirds Found Dead
Mosquito-borne viruses are becoming a growing threat in Western Europe, and France is no exception. Closely related to the West Nile virus currently circulating in the Camargue,...
Bat rabies: first case detected in the Oise department
On June 10, 2015, the Pasteur Institute confirmed a case of rabies in a sick bat found in the town of Gouvieux, in the southern part of the Oise department. The two people who d...
Using the rabbit myxomatosis virus to ensure the safety of human bone marrow transplants
Although the myxoma virus is often fatal to rabbits, it has little effect on humans when they are exposed to it. However, using a xenograft model, researchers have discovered th...
A case of canine rabies was confirmed today in the Loire department
On Thursday, May 21, 2015, the Pasteur Institute confirmed a case of rabies in a bull terrier pedigree dog kept at Square Louis Huguet in the town of Chambon-Feugerolles (Loire)...
Disaster Management and “One Health”: European Civil Protection Lacks a Holistic Approach
A conference titled “Natural Disasters and One Health : Are We Prepared to Respond?”, organized by the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE), was held in Brussels on April...
Canine Leishmaniasis: EFSA Releases Its Report on the Characterization and Prevention of the Disease in Europe
At the request of Brussels, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) assessed the incidence of canine leishmaniasis* in the European Union through a review of the literature an...
One Health: WOAH and the CDC Strengthen Their Cooperation
Bernard Vallat, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH), and his counterpart Tom Frieden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) anno...
Rabies kills someone every 10 minutes worldwide
Some 55,000 people die each year from rabies, a figure that is likely lower than the actual number, given the shortcomings in case reporting procedures in some countries. These...
A New Case of Rabies in Vendée
It’s summer, with its waves of tourists, wildfires, drought (yes, really!), breaks in the cold chain for food products, a rise in counterfeit goods, and generally illegal import...
Daily Care of Animals in Cases of Rabies
When is an animal considered to be validly vaccinated? In France, to be recognized as validly vaccinated against rabies, the vaccination and its certificate must comply with the...
When it comes to rabies, what are the regulations for each animal?
When is an animal considered to have rabies? Once a diagnosis has been confirmed by an approved laboratory approved by the Ministry of Agriculture or the Ministry of Health When...