Eighth Annual
“One Medicine” Symposium
December 8, 2010
Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center | Durham, North Carolina
Reality Bites:
A One Medicine Approach to Vector-borne diseases
Agenda
7:00am-8:30
Registration
8:30-9:00
Welcome
9:00-9:45
Changing Ecology and Vector-borne Diseases
- Impacts on wildlife
- Disease risk impacts for people and animals
9:45-10:45
Rickettsial Diseases of People and Pets
- Diagnostic approach, surveillance and treatment in humans and animals
- Dogs as sentinels for disease in humans?
10:45-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Mosquito-borne diseases, Surveillance Programs, and New Vector Control Concerns
- Ecology, epidemiology, and clinical management of La Crosse virus
- Ecology of Eastern equine encephalitis, sentinel flock and mosquito surveillance
- The Clean Water Act: How will this affect mosquito control programs?
12:00pm-1:00
Lunch: provided
1:00-2:45
Lyme Disease and Southern Tick Associated Rash Illness (STARI)
- Clinical presentation, diagnosis, treatment and surveillance for humans
- Canine diagnosis – what is the test really telling us?
- Complex ecology of Lyme disease in the south
2:45-3:00
Break
3:00-5:10
Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases
- Chagas disease - extending beyond Latin America?
- Bartonellosis - the hidden epidemic
- Human Babesiosis - new reporting requirements, new vector
- Babesiosis in dogs – new species
