MSD Health announces new webinar

MSD Animal Well being, a division of Merck & Co, Inc, will host a stay digital occasion that includes consultants in public well being, veterinary drugs, and parasitology. The consultants will share their views on managing the specter of vector-borne ailments.

This digital occasion will function:

• Overview of the One Well being method with Jane Sykes, PhD, BVSc, UC Davis College of Veterinary Medication, and Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, chief affected person officer and govt vice chairman, inhabitants well being & sustainability, MSD Animal Well being; moderated by Alasdair King, worldwide veterinary well being, MSD Animal Well being (10:00-10:45 am ET)
• Panel dialogue on VBDs as a mannequin for the One Well being method, that includes Peter Irwin, BVetMed, PhD (James Prepare dinner), FANZCVS, MRCVS, School of Veterinary Medication, Murdoch College; Susan Little, DVM, PhD, DACVM (Parasit.), Middle for Veterinary Well being Sciences, Oklahoma State College; Guadalupe Miró, DVM, PhD, Dipl. EVPC, Parasitology and Parasitic Ailments, Universidad Complutense of Madrid; Paul Overgaauw, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVM, Veterinary Public Well being, Utrecht College; and Richard Wall, BSc, MBA, PhD, College of Organic Sciences, College of Bristol (10:45-11:45 am ET)

• New knowledge and insights on pet proprietor compliance with present parasite remedy suggestions and conserving pets who stay in our houses free from VBDs, by Dr. Robert Lavan, MPVM, DVM, Director, Middle for Observational and Actual-World Proof, MSD Animal Well being (11:45 am-12:15 pm ET)

Registrants can even obtain entry to extra free webinars from “main consultants on among the most prevalent vector-borne ailments discovered in the present day,” based on the discharge.¹

This occasion is authorized via the American Affiliation of Veterinary State Board’s Registry of Permitted Persevering with Training (RACE) for two.5 hours and hosted via the Webinar Vets platform.

“Many exterior elements impacting society have contributed to unfold of vector borne ailments, making the One Well being method extra essential now than ever,” stated Fernando Riaza Carcamo, vice chairman, world advertising, MSD Animal Well being. “Our firm is dedicated to bettering the well being of individuals and animals that share our complicated and ever-changing surroundings via the invention and growth of preventative options for present and rising ailments.”

In response to the World Well being Group, vector-borne ailments account for an estimated 17% of the worldwide burden of all infectious ailments.² As well as, the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention states that 60% of recognized infectious ailments in folks will be unfold from animals—via direct or oblique contact, vectors, meals, and water.³ Analysis has proven that 75% of recent or rising infectious ailments in folks come from animals.⁴

The occasion will happen on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. and people taken with attending can register here.

References

1. MSD Animal Well being hosts: A One Well being Method to Vector-Borne Ailments. Information Launch. MSD Animal Well being. January 21, 2022. Accessed February 23, 2022. https://www.msd-animal-health.com/2022/01/21/msd-animal-health-hosts-a-one-health-approach-to-vector-borne-diseases/
2. Vector-borne ailments. WHO. March 2, 2020. Accessed February 23, 2022. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/element/vector-borne-diseases#:~:textual content=Vectorpercent2Dbornepercent20diseasespercent20accountpercent20for,infectionpercent20transmittedpercent20bypercent20Anophelinepercent20mosquitoes.
3. Zoonotic ailments. CDC. Accessed February 23, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/fundamentals/zoonotic-diseases.html
4. Gebreyes WA, Dupouy-Camet J, Newport MJ, et al. The worldwide one well being paradigm: challenges and alternatives for tackling infectious ailments on the human, animal, and surroundings interface in low-resource settings. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014;8(11):e3257. Revealed 2014 Nov 13. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0003257