Nobel Prize in Medicine Open One Health Congress



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TEMPO.Co, Canada – Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Peter Doherty, of the University of Melbourne, Australia, opens the 5th International Congress on Health in Saskatoon, Canada, on Friday, June 22, 2018 or the June 23 in Indonesia.

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He qualifies the film Contagion as an appropriate image of new infectious diseases and recurrent infections (emerging and re-emerging infection). Up to 70% of the disease's intermediates come from animals transmitting the disease to humans or vice versa, from humans to animals (zoonotic).

Peter Doherty illustrated new infectious diseases and re-emerging infections that include Ebola, Nipah, Bird Flu, SARS, Chikungunya and West Nile virus.

The pathogenic challenge (biological agents or parasitic microorganisms) in new infectious diseases and re-infections is the same as in the film Contagion. "It's a film about One Health," said Peter Doherty at the opening of the 5th International One Health Congress in Saskatoon, Canada, on Friday, June 22, 2018 or June 23 in Indonesia.

Contagion is a 2011 film directed by Steven Soderbergh, featuring famous actors and actresses, including Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cottilard and Matt Damon. This film tells the epidemic of the disease. In the film, he illustrates how people are infected with the virus. Peter shows the photo of the film.

The 5th Congress that uses an integrated approach to human health, animals and the environment lasted until June 25, 2018. Peter Doherty's speech was greeted with laughter from several convention attendees. The 78-year-old boy gave his lecture with film photos, maps of the spread of new infectious diseases and re-infections.

From time to time, he pours his own drink in the middle of his presentation filled with hundreds of veterinarians, human doctors, microbiologists, environmentalists and researchers of new infectious diseases and new infections. It expresses and energetically explains the material full of pictures of infectious animals, such as pigs, bats, horses, ducks and birds.

The Tempo reporter was one of three media journalists in Indonesia who was invited by the Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) to cover the event after to have obtained a scholarship in cooperation with the Alliance of Independent Journalists in Indonesia. The Congress is supported by international health care organizations, academic research institutes, field health workers and the pharmaceutical industry.

The organizers are the University of Saskatchewan. Peter, who is a veterinarian, has become a keynote speaker at the congress which has featured hundreds of academics in animal, human and environmental health. One Health is used by many countries to address global health by integrating human, animal and environmental health approaches. This convention runs until June 25, 2018.

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SHINTA MAHARANI

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