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ISSUE 24                                                                                            March 2020
Recent Publications
 Duke One Health Team Publishes a Systematic Review of Horse Zoonoses
 
Former One Health team member, Dr. Lexi Sack (Tufts University School of Medicine) and her collaborators, Dr. Fatai S. Oladunni (University of Kentucky), Dr. Battsetseg Gonchigoo (Mongolia University of Life Sciences), Dr. Thomas M. Chambers (University of Kentucky), and Dr. Gregory Gray (Duke University) recently published an important, very unique, and comprehensive review of the zoonotic diseases associated with horses. As horses are used worldwide for numerous recreational and work purposes, this review should be very useful to veterinarians who provide care for horses and to human clinicians who care for people with frequent horse exposure.   

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Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Insights
Visiting Chinese Scholar Gives His Perspective on the
Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
 
Leshan Xiu is a visiting China Scholarship Council Scholar and part of the Duke One Health Team. He is a PhD candidate studying Pathogen Biology at Peking Union Medical College at Tsinghua University, located in Beijing, China. Before coming to Duke, Leshan conducted research on viruses that emerge at the human-animal interface, including coronaviruses. As a visiting scholar from China, Leshan reflects upon the COVID-19 outbreak that has caused so much illness in China.
 
Duke Undergraduate Student with Family in Wuhan, China
Gives Her Perspective on the Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
 
One Health team member, Yuexuan Chen (better known as Chen Chen), is a junior who serves as a health/science editor at the Duke Chronicle. Her family is from Wuhan, China and she lived in Shenzhen, China until age five when she moved to the United States. Since then, she has visited her village near Wuhan almost every year to pay respects to her ancestors and to visit her family. Given her background, she offers her perspective on how this outbreak has affected her and many other Duke students with ties to China.
 
One Health Team Member Highlights
Natalie Alarja (right) addresses seminar attendees while Dr Raquel Binder looks on.  (PC: Greg Gray)
One Health Team Members Deliver a Seminar on the
Novel Coronavirus Threat
 
On February 19, Dr. Raquel Binder, Emily Robie, Kara Kochek, Natalie Alarja, and Leshan Xiu of Duke One Health Team delivered a 45-min seminar (with pizza lunch) to 45 Duke Global Health Institute students and staff, entitled “SARS-CoV-2: What do we know?” The young researchers’ systematic review of what is known about the virus and the disease it causes was very well received.  Numerous attendees praised the presenters for their clear, and much appreciated synthesis of the now very dynamic SARS-CoV-2 data. The Duke One Health Team will entertain future local invitations to give similar seminars (contact emily.robie@duke.edu or call 919-684-1980).
One Health Team Members Receive BSL-3 Laboratory Training
 
In January and February, four members of the One Health Team. Dr. Raquel Binder, Dr. Ben Anderson, Leshan Xiu, and Natalie Alarja, received biosafety level 3 training at Duke’s Regional Biocontainment Laboratory.  Sponsored by US Department of Defense and Autonomous Therapeutics, Inc., their future research work will provide epidemiological and therapeutic data necessary to prevent or treat patients with special pathogen infections.
Upcoming Events
The 5th International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses
 
The 5th International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses is being held in Columbus, Ohio, USA on May 11-13, 2020. This conference will explore the latest surveillance data, vaccination and control strategies, diagnostic techniques, experimental research data and epidemiological and economic impact studies relating to swine, equine, canine and other non-human/non-avian influenza viruses. The 5th International Symposium on Neglected Influenza Viruses will build on the success of the previous symposia held in Florida, USA (2010), Dublin, Ireland (2013) and Georgia, USA (2015), Brighton, UK (2018). This series of meetings was first organized by Duke’s Professor Greg Gray. The 2020 meeting is expected to be attended by key opinion leaders and decision makers in influenza research/policy. Registration, abstract submission and more information can be found here.
 The 6th World One Health Congress in Edinburg, Scotland

The 6th World One Health Congress is being held in Edinburg, Scotland on June 14-18, 2020. This conference will connect 1,500 professionals and advocates allowing for the exchange of new scientific insights and policy developments in the pursuit of One Health. There will be variety of keynote lectures by renowned experts, a series of special plenary sessions, and 35 parallel sessions for attendees to choose from. An extra session on SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 has been added to the last day of the conference, with abstracts accepted until May 1st, 2020. For more information about this event you can visit the Congress website here or click here for official flyer.
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Anfal Abdelgadir (left), Emily Robie, MSc (middle), amd Kara Kochek (right) serve as the editors of Duke One Health Team News. Anfal is a rising second-year master's student at the Duke Global Health Institute. Emily graduated from the Duke Global Health Institute in May 2019 and is currently working as a research analyst for the One Health Team at Duke University. Kara graduated from Gillings School of Global Public Health in December 2019 and is also currently working as a research analyst for the One Health Team at Duke University. 
 
Anfal Abdelgadir anfal.abdelgadir@duke.edu
Emily Robie, MSc emily.robie@duke.edu
Kara Kochek, MS kara.kochek@duke.edu
The Duke One Health Team News periodically reports research and training news
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