Travelers can be sentinels for emerging infections; thus, this situation warrants a concerted human and veterinary epidemiologic response.
The situation in Corsica is of significance for One Health medicine and disease epidemiology and, thus, requires a concerted public health and veterinary epidemiologic response.
Another constructive step would be to improve the capacity of existing veterinary rapid-response teams, which exist in many states, to carry out active surveillance with animal populations as well as to improve the coordination of veterinary diagnostic laboratories.
To examine possible biases in the responses from veterinary practices, we analysed response or non-response against country and urban-rural classification using χ2 tests.
20, 25 A key difference between BDD and Morgellons disease is the veterinary community's response to BDD versus the medical community's response to Morgellons disease.
The principal effective veterinary measure in response to BT was believed to be vaccination accompanied by other measures such as movement restrictions and surveillance.
The European Commissioner for Health, Markos Kyprianou, stated at the EU Conference on "Vaccination Strategy against Bluetongue (16 January 2008)" that the principal, and possibly the only, effective veterinary measure in response to BT is vaccination accompanied by ancillary measures such as movement restrictions and surveillance.
Furthermore, influenza outbreaks among livestock can trigger major global declines in meat prices, and the nature and timing of veterinary health authorities' responses to an outbreak can affect the extent to which demand recovers after the crisis.
Puppies, kittens and other mammals may transmit parasites, while reptiles and amphibians can carry salmonella, says Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, a veterinary epidemiologist with outbreak response and prevention for the Centers for Disease Control.
Government officials also assessed current surveillance programs, diagnostic support, collaboration with the veterinary sector, and outbreak response.
