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A new epidemiological study of endangered juvenile green sea turtles in eastern Brazil suggests that factors such as water temperature, salinity and proximity to environmental stressors could trigger the development of a tumor disease associated with a herpesvirus.

Last week several One Health Institute students visited Puerto Rico to tell their One Health stories about marine mammal health, rodentborne diseases in California, and tickborne diseases in Tanzania at the National Veterinary Scholars Symposium (NVSS).

Julien Ferrero (VetAgro Sup, Lyon, France), Amalie Solli (UC Davis), and Nicole Perry (U Florida) were with OHI for summer research experiences in the Bird and Smith research groups.

Joseph K. Gaydos, Judy St. Leger, Stephen Raverty, Hendrik Nollens, Martin Haulena, Eric J. Ward, Candice K. Emmons, M. Bradley Hanson, Ken Balcomb †, Dave Ellifrit, Michael N. Weiss, Deborah Giles

Published: June 28, 2023

Evacuating, sheltering and caring for animals are enormous tasks made more difficult in a state under siege from wildfires. But the California Veterinary Emergency Team, or CVET, is ready to lead a statewide coordinated effort to provide veterinary care when disasters like wildfires strike.

A virus previously found only in bats was detected in the antibodies of people screened for exposure to sarbecoviruses between 2017 and 2020 in rural Myanmar in Southeast Asia, according to a study from the University of California, Davis and collaborators in Myanmar and Singapore. The work is published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Soaring to New Heights dates back to the adoption of the UC Davis Principles of Community in 1990, signed by then-Chancellor Theodore L. Hullar and leaders of the ASUCD and Graduate Student Association, Academic Senate and Academic Staff Organization (forerunner of the Academic Federation), and Staff Assembly (Davis campus and UC Davis Medical Center).

The OHI-led One Health Workforce-Next Generation project was highlighted in a White House briefing last week on the one year anniversary of the Biden-Harris Global Health Worker Initiative:

It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that our dear mentor and colleague Professor Rudovick Kazwala passed away on April 3, 2023.

When the Endangered Species Act was passed 50 years ago, some of the world's most iconic animals were on the brink of extinction. We are proud to be highlighted with our fellow University of California colleagues around the state and across the globe for our collective efforts to save endangered species.

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In partnership with several collaborators including Smithonian Institution we published a computer simulation of what could happen if mountain gorillas got Ebola virus. There was an outbreak in humans in 2018 in DR Congo not far from Virunga National Park, so we know the virus is present in the region and gorillas are susceptible to the disease. Fortunately, this was just a theoretical exercise and the mountain gorillas remain Ebola-free.

The survival of critically endangered Rhinoceros populations across Africa requires a multidisciplinary approach to mitigate disease threats, reduce poaching, increase breeding populations, and the preserve and expand wildland habitats.

With heavy hearts and endless rain in California that mirrors our tears, we say goodbye to our dear friend, leader, and One Health mentor Matthew Patrick Blake. Matt, for those that worked with him, that connected with him, and who quickly became friends (all of us), was an inspiration and a role model. He was a founder of the UC Davis One Health Institute, my close friend and constant critic, my mentor, my challenger, and he played similar roles with all of our UC Davis staff, faculty, students, and international collaborators.

Is Chile California’s home away from home? I visited Santiago, Chile again in Feb 2023, and once again felt strong synergies across the people and the places that have so much in common…it struck me that we share similar climates, similar crops, similar coasts, similar mountains, similar music, similar passions, to those we find in California… just in opposite hemispheres of our world.

OHI Research Faculty Dr. Pranav Pandit is leading a team as Principal Investigator - in collaboration with OHI colleagues Drs. Brian Bird, Christine Kreuder Johnson, and Marcela Uhart - to develop climate-sensitive models for individual arenaviruses in close collaboration with regional public health experts in Africa and South America.

The Summer Work Experience Program is coordinated by the UCGHI Planetary Health Center of Expertise at the UC Davis One Health Institute, in partnership with the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) Cooperative Extension and other host organizations.