World Veterinary Association

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World Veterinary Association

• Dr.Tjeerd Jorna
• President

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World Veterinary Association and The general
role of the veterinary profession in public health
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WVA

• ONE WORLD, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH
• Healthy animals Healthy People
• ONE PROFESSION, ONE VISION, ONE VOICE

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Mission statement

• WVA is the global veterinary organization
  representing the veterinary profession in all
  aspects at global international level

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History

• 1863 International Veterinary Congresses
• Founded by John Gamgee in Hamburg
• 1863-1905 Congresses with issues like
• Zoonoses
• Veterinary Law and Meat Inspection
• Education and Application of veterinary drugs
• 1899 First World Congress
• 1905 Permanent Committee established
• 1959 World Veterinary Association
• 1963 100 year World Animal Health Year
  Hannover
• 1995-1999 Reconstruction WVA by Dr. A. Rantsios
  president
• Issues like interests of the veterinary
  profession and her role in society

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WVA professional objectives

• Global policy-making in animal health, animal
  welfare, public health and zoonotic disease
• Global policy-making in the relation of animal
  behaviour and climate change to animal disease
  control
• Global accreditation system for EDUCATION as the
  guarantee of the quality of the profession
• Global structure of veterinary services in good
  co-operation with OIE, FAO and WHO

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Veterinary medicine
A N I M A l L H E A L T H
P U B L I C H E A L T H
A N I M A L W E L F A R E
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Role veterinarians

• Practitioner
• Hygienist
• Meat-inspection
• State veterinary officer
• Policy animal disease control and public health
• Industry and Institutes
• Education
• Veterinary Faculties and Agriculture Schools
• Environment and climate
• Disease-monitoring

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Animals

Science Knowledge / Skills Ethics /
Attitude Objective Independent Impartial
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Society
Owners / Keepers
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Cooperation

• ONE WORLD, ONE MEDICINE, ONE HEALTH
• (Roger K. Mahr)
• To PROMOTE global veterinary policy
• To REPRESENT all global veterinarians
• To SUPPORT global activities
• OIE, FAO, WHO, IFAH, IFAP, WSPA
• To take knowledge of activities of
• Institutes (CDC, ECDC), Governments, Politics,
  Activists
• By PARTICIPATION - RESPONSIBILITY -
• OPENNESS - TRANSPARENCY

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One World One Health

• A unified approach between veterinary and human
  medicine to improve Global Health

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Global Animal Health Strategy

• Main driver
• One Health Approach
• Objectives
• Public Health and Food Safety
• Animal Health and
• Animal Welfare

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Main issues

• ANIMAL HEALTH
• ANIMAL WELFARE
• PUBLIC HEALTH
• EDUCATION and LIFE LONG LEARNING

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• Veterinary Public Health
• and
• Human Public Health together meansGlobal
  Public Health

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WHO definition of Veterinary Public Health

•  The sum of all contributions to the complete
  physical, mental and social well being of humans
  through an understanding and application of
  veterinary medical science 

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Public health

• To maintain control of zoonotic diseases
• To control food security and food safety
• To support the structure of veterinary services
• To organise terms of probation for people from
  developing countries

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70 human pathogens are zoonoses!

• Leptospirosis
• Lyme Borreliosis
• Q Fever
• Rabies
• Taeniasis
• Toxoplasmosis
• Trematodosis
• Trypanosomiasis
• Tuberculosis
• Tularaemia

• Anthrax
• Avian Influenza
• Antimicrobial Resistance
• BSE
• Brucellosis
• Echinococcosis/Hydatidosis
• Campylobacteriosis
• E. Coli
• Salmonellosis
• Leishmaniasis

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Through the wide variety of veterinary
tasks,every veterinarian contributes to public
health

• Cure prevention of animal diseases
• Health monitoring, surveillance and diagnosis
• Food production and safety
• Biomedical research
• Animal welfare
• Management of wild animal populations
• Protection of drinking-H2O environment
• Management of public health emergencies
• etc...

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• The Veterinary Profession
• is a
• Health Profession!!

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• This cannot be realised by
• competent authorities alone
• individual veterinarians alone
• But only by CO-OPERATION !!
• Co-ordinated and concerted actions are essential
  

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• Public and private parties
• have a common interest
• and a shared responsibility to work together
• Competent authorities
• Contingency plans, border control, certification,
  legislation, implementation, enforcement.
• Private practitioners
• Obtain direct information from farmers, work
  close with the animals, decide on further
  actions, translate rules into practice
• They are involved in The Stable to Table
  Approach

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The official veterinarian

• The official vet has a crucial role in
  veterinary
• public health
• Veterinarians are best qualified professionnals
• Official veterinarian
• - Specialist for official tasks
• - Special qualification
• - Various responsabilities

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Tasks

• Where do you meet official vets?
• In policy and rule making authorities
  (ministries)
• Laboratories
• Veterinary services
• Border inspection points

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Tasks

• What are the tasks covered by official vets?
• Implementation of national and, since the 50ies,
• EU legislation
• Animal disease control
• Improvement of animal welfare
• Food and feed hygiene
• Animal medicines
• Competences different from country to country!!!

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Tasks

• Some areas of duty
• Inspections of hygiene legislation
• Inspections in animal welfare enforcement
• Certification for trade of products from animal
  origin and of animals
• Analysis of food and feed samples

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Tasks

• Official controls has to be performed
• Risk based
• Without prior warning
• At all steps of production chain
• Following SOPs, guidelines
• - Documentation permits verification of
  effectiveness
• - Control methods, sampling methods and
  techniques
• Transparency and communication of control
• activities

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Tasks

• Requirements in regard to the control staff
• Multidisciplinary cooperation
• Free from any conflict of interest
• Adequately equipped and access to appropriate
  facilities
• Appropriate qualified and trained
• Not disclose information acquired if covered by
  professional secrecy

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Tasks

• Firstly due to the obligation for business
  operator to carry out their own checks (including
  HACCP)
• Rule of official vets changed
• From inspector to auditor

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Official vets in society

• Not in all countries well known (public and
  politics)
• Scandals are appropriate ways to make public
  aware about the rule of official vets
• Public asks for official vets in animal welfare
  issues

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Official vets in society

• Official vets are, like the whole veterinary
  profession,
• the best kept secret globally
• Way out
• Show what you can, what you do, be engaged in the
  network of the whole veterinary profession and
  speak with one voice!

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Tuberculosis
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Q-koorts
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SARS
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Rabies
Rabies free
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Avian influenza
H5N1
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Tape worm
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Food poisoning

• Hygiene
• Preparation
• - Irradiation

From Stable to Table
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Food poisoning
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Thank you for your attention

• When we all take our responsibility and I am be
  permitted to GUIDE all global veterinarians for
  the benefit of PEOPLE and ANIMALS my slogan is
• ONE WORLD - ONE HEALTH
• Hominum Animaliumque Saluti
• Acknowledgements
• Lorine B.Meijer-Jorna MDPath
• Dr.Cornelia Rossi Broy
• Dr Walter Winding