Outreach

El lobo y la OMS

Article

Ya despojados de la premura a la que, lamentablemente, la necesidad de la toma de decisiones en un tema tan sensible como es la salud nos conduce, se puedan analizar algunas de las medidas adoptadas con un cierto rigor y, sobre todo, lejanía. No obstante, en los pasados días se ha abierto una nueva polémica sobre la actuación de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) en este tema. Recientemente han surgido sospechas sobre si la OMS, que en abril declaró la primera pandemia del siglo XXI, alarmó excesivamente a los Gobiernos y, sobre todo, a la población, con la ilegítima intención (no demostrada en estos momentos) de promover la venta de vacunas y medicamentos contra esta enfermedad, por la estrecha relación de ciertos miembros de la organización con empresas farmacéuticas. Si así fuera, cabría enfocar la cuestión de manera bien distinta, pero no conocemos lo suficiente para sustentar tal idea.…

Goyache J.

Tribuna Complutense
Universidad Complutense

Hacia la seguridad alimentaria global

Online article

Los representantes de la Agencia Europea de Seguridad Alimentaria (EFSA) y la Administración Americana de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) firmaron hace unos meses el primer acuerdo transatlántico en materia de seguridad alimentaria. Según los términos del mismo, ambas compartirán información científica confidencial sobre metodologías aplicadas a la garantía sanitaria de los alimentos, formalizando la cooperación e intercambios existentes previamente
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Goyache J., Briones V. and Dominguez L.

Análisis madri+d
Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

Presence of Rickettsia raoultii in Dermacentor Ticks from Wildlife<br />
in Central Spain

Poster communication

The genus Rickettsia includes a large number of bacteria considered important emerging tick-borne human pathogens. The genus is divided into three groups: the typhus group (TG), the scrub typhus group and the spotted fever group (SFG). SFG rickettsiae include several pathogenic and nonpathogenic species such as R. conori, R. massilae and R. raoultii. R. raoultii was first isolated in Russia in 1999 and defined as a new species in 2008. Since then this agent has been detected in different European scenarios implicated in human and animal disease and mainly associated with Dermacentor ticks.
In recent years a number of studies performed on ticks recovered from domestic and wild animals as well as from the environment in different regions of Spain demonstrated that SFG rickettsiae other than R. conorii have a higher prevalence than previously thought, which was surprising because R. conorii seemed to be the prevailing rickettsial agent…

Garcia N., Iriso A., Perez-Sancho M., Alvarez J., Martin-Otero LE., Benitez P. and Goyache J.

8th ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting
American Society for Microbiology

Resistencia a antibióticos en bacterias humanas y animales

Online article

La resistencia a los antibióticos es uno de los mayores retos sanitarios de la actualidad. Una dificultad adicional es la que ha estudiado un grupo de investigación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, que ha identificado y caracterizado un vehículo de genes de resistencia a antibióticos que ha pasado de bacterias que afectan al cerdo a bacterias que afectan al hombre. No se trata de una alarma sanitaria, se trata de un problema ecológico que requiere una colaboración científica multidisciplinar en la que España debe ser uno de los principales protagonistas…

Gonzalez-Zorn B., Cordero R. and San Millan A.

Unidad de Información Científica y Divulgación de la Investigación. OTRI
Universidad Complutense

EFSA and ECDC issue their anual report on zoonoses and food-borne outbreaks in the EU

Informative post

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) have published their Annual Report on Zoonoses and Food-borne outbreaks for 2008, which gives an overview of zoonotic infections shared in nature by humans and animals and disease outbreaks caused by consuming contaminated food. The report shows that the number of human cases of the three most reported zoonotic infections was lower in 2008 than in 2007…

Gonzalez S.

Weblog Madri+d de Seguridad Alimentaria y Alimentación
Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

Flu Virus. The Swine flu

Article

The A flu or influenza type A is a respiratory disease that affects a large number of species. It is caused by a segmented virus consisted in eight fragments of RNA which encoding 11 proteins. Influenza virus belongs to the family Orthomyxovirus and genus Influenzavirus type A. It is a zoonosis of low intensity. Interspecies transmission is not a frequent occurrence.…

Sanchez-Vizcaino JM.

Ganadería
Editorial Agricola Española S.A.

Salmonella prevalence on swine farms

Article

The most commonly identified bacterial cause of food borne outbreaks in the EU is Salmonella. In order to establish control programmes to reduce Salmonella prevalence in food-producing animals, a series of studies which facilitate the comparison of Salmonella prevalence between member states has been established. Thereby, official control programmes and global targets for Salmonella reduction can be defined…

Dominguez L.

Anaporc
Asociacion Nacional de Porcicultura Científica

Coxiella burnetti, a neglected pathogen

Informative post

Q fever outbreak started in Holland has come to Belgium by creating an unprecedented situation makes it difficult to see whether the measures taken are appropriate and where there are no European recommendations. However, cases of transmission of Q fever from animals to humans are atypical and associated with management and environmental conditions specific to the affected areas…

Gonzalez S.

Weblog Madri+d de Seguridad Alimentaria y Alimentación
Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

Q fever importance in Europe nowadays

Online article

Q fever is one of the most widespread neglected zoonoses worldwide, in spite of the fact that it can be considered as emerging or reemerging in many countries. The disease has been described in almost every country where its presence has been investigated with the sole described exception of New Zealand. However, many aspects of the Q fever and its causative agent, the obligate intracellular bacterium Coxiella burnetii, remain unclear although in the last years it has received a growing attention that could explain its “emergent” nature (due to the use of improved diagnostic techniques and enhanced vigilance in both Public Health and Animal Health sides)…

Alvarez J.

VISAVET Outreach Journal
VISAVET Health Surveillance Centre (U.C.M.)

Global Biosecurity 2010

Informative post

Biosecurity has become a major economic problem of concern to governments, agricultural industries and environmental organizations worldwide. Under the slogan safeguarding agriculture and the environment is announcing this global conference will provide a forum for stakeholders across the biosafety spectrum, including researchers, industry representatives, policy makers, primary producers and importers or exporters…

Gonzalez S.

Weblog Madri+d de Seguridad Alimentaria y Alimentación
Fundación para el Conocimiento madri+d

Veterinary Studies in the European Higher Education Area: The Bologna Process

Article

The article explores the European Higher Education Area foundations and its influence on veterinary studies, to explore new methodologies that have to be implemented, and its future impact on certification, concluding that the so-called Bologna Process will have a important influence on veterinary education, although less than in other degrees studies.…

Rouco A., Carrasco L. and Goyache J.

Profesión Veterinaria
Ilustre Colegio Oficial de Veterinarios de Madrid

Respuesta inmune espec&iacute;fica de la tuberculosis

Oral communication

Bezos J.

Seminarios VISAVET 2009