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The Livestock Revolution, Sustainable Development, Zoonotic Disease
Conference Audio and Video - Francois-Xavier Meslin
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Francois-Xavier Meslin, DVM, PhD World Health Organization, Department of Food Safety Zoonoses and Food-Borne Diseases
Audio of Dr. Meslin's lecture (MP3 format; 35:30 minutes) Video of Dr. Meslin's lecture (RealVideo format; 35:30 minutes) |
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Biography Francois-Xavier Meslin received his Doctor in Veterinary Medicine in Lyon, France. After a first experience in livestock development in Thailand, Dr. Meslin specialized in tropical veterinary medicine, veterinary public health and field epidemiology. After spending two years in West Africa in another animal production and health project he joined the World Health Organization as manager of an intercountry project for human and dog rabies prevention and control and also provided oversight of the WHO Zoonoses Control Programme in the Mediterranean area. Dr. Meslin has occupied various positions in WHO, including supervision of WHO activities dealing with antimicrobial resistance in human pathogens, public health response to biological weapons, human African trypanosomiasis and anthroponotic leishmaniasis control in addition to zoonoses prevention and control and veterinary public health. |
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Abstract New Approaches to the Control of Zoonotic Diseases Emerging zoonotic diseases are increasingly recognized as a global and regional issue with potentially serious human health and economic impacts and their current upward trends are likely to continue. Although history shows that the cascade of events leading to the emergence of a new disease is different each time, several factors are known to favour such emergence. Early and accurate detection of new outbreaks of epidemic diseases including emerging zoonoses, and an improved capacity for understanding the underlying causes for disease emergence, and the ecology of the agents and their hosts will assist in the effective prevention or rapid containment of future emergence events. Integrating the early warning, alert and response systems of international organizations should be undertaken to facilitate early detection of potentially linked animal and public health events. |
