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WCS Global Health Program Subcommittee Meeting

WCS Global Health Program Subcommittee Meeting. June 15, 2009. Climate change has a considerable impact on the emergence and re-emergence of animal diseases At the 77th OIE General Assembly, Delegates of the 174 Member Countries and Territories issue a warning to the International Communities.

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WCS Global Health Program Subcommittee Meeting

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  1. WCS Global Health Program Subcommittee Meeting June 15, 2009

  2. Climate change has a considerable impact on the emergence and re-emergence of animal diseases • At the 77th OIE General Assembly, Delegates of the 174 Member Countries and Territories issue a warning to the International Communities

  3. Cargill • Nestle • McDonald’s • Purina • Coca-Cola • Keystone Foods • Pfizer

  4. Great Apes - Congo • * 626 hunters in 36 villages in Ebola endemic zone educated on the risk of Ebola and reporting of carcasses as part of WCS hunter-based surveillance program • * 1850 kilometers of surveys performed by WCS and regular reports from hunters suggest the ape populations occurring in the center of the country, and east of previous outbreaks remain in healthy numbers.

  5. ECOSYSTEM HEALTH - APOLOBAMBA (GREATER MADIDI LANDSCAPE, BOLIVIA ) Conservation and Sustainable Use Disease surveillance Livestock predation conflicts

  6. Predation Predation on livestock Wildlife population control Creates conflict between communities and Protected Areas & conservation efforts Natural event

  7. Livestock Predators

  8. Mitigation measures Standardized predation records

  9. Disease related mortality

  10. Total losses to predation and disease Predation Disease

  11. LPAI LPAI To HPAI

  12. Global Avian Influenza Network for Surveillance (GAINS) for Wild Birds GNAIS

  13. New USAID Initiative • $543 Million over 5 years • Goal is to develop system to detect or prevent the “next” HIV/AIDS or human pandemic disease • 4 geographic regions • Gangetic Plains • Amazon Basin • Congo Basin • S.E. Asia • 5 Programs • PREPARE – table top exercises - RFA • PREDICT – wildlife surveillance for human diseases - RFA • INDENTIFY – building laboratory network – WHO, FAO, OIE • RESPOND – build public health/Ag/wildlife capacity to respond – RFA • PREVENT – Community education and outreach – sole source

  14. Core Wildlife Team WCS Global Viral Forecasting Initiative UC Davis Wildlife Trust PREDICT $75 M Other Key Partners • Princeton • Harvard (ProMED, Health Map) • Yale • Emory • Columbia • CSU • Smithsonian • Oswaldi Cruz, etc

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