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Wildlife poaching is feared to surge across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The common denominator includes the loss of tourism in previously protected areas, due to COVID-19.
At the Center for Animal Health and Food Safety, we have refined an effective, culturally competent approach to partnering with foreign countries to empower their veterinary and animal health workforces in both the public and private sector. Our new educational initiative, ProgRESSVet-East Africa, is helping the next generation of veterinary service professionals to excel and contribute to national economic development through their daily work.
In our last CAHFS Weekly Update, the topic of stigma, misinformation, and fear was briefly discussed. This was brought to light with the recent outrage about where infected or suspected patients should be quarantined and/or isolated in the US.
Federal officials still cannot say for sure where the blackberries, associated with a Hepatitis A outbreak leading to 20 lab confirm cases, came from. More than half of the 20 cases have required hospitalization according to the CDC.
As news and updates of the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) rapidly evolve, so do misinformation, fear, and confusion. Dr. Rose Marie Leslie, a family medicine physician at the University of Minnesota, uses social media to combat false health information spread through popular social media platforms.
While the cost to human health and lives is the most pressing concern of outbreaks, the economic costs of outbreaks of disease can be astronomical too. The SARS epidemic of 2002-2003, which infected 8,000 people and caused approximately 800 deaths, caused an estimated $50 billion in damage to the global economy. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014 cost the global economy approximately $53 billion.
When a costly 2015 outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ripped through the United States, Minnesota farmers found themselves at the forefront. Four years later, CAHFS has continued their commitment to helping the industry to better mitigate and understand avian influenza.
It has been one year since an Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). To date, there have been nearly 3,000 human cases with over 1,800 deaths in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri.