This week is the World Health Organisation’s Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Week,and it’s a good opportunity to think about the impact of ‘super bugs’ on the health of New Zealand communities. ESR tracks many microorganisms and one particularly nasty family of super bugs is currently showing an increase. Super bugs are typically resistant to nearly all…

Our spring 2019 newsletter includes information about our 5th symposium next month, profiles VetSouth and VetNZ director Mark Bryan, and provides information about a PhD opportunity currently available at Massey University on leptospirosis with Associate Professor Jackie Benschop. View the One Health Aotearoa Spring 2019 newsletter.

OHA investigator and management group member Dr Rob Lake was awarded the Lifetime Contribution to Science Award for his body of work in the foodborne illness area at the Science New Zealand National Awards last week. Dr Lake was honoured for his 30-year contribution to the field of food safety. The award recognises the impact…

The burden of human leptospirosis in New Zealand was discussed at a forum in Wellington last week as part of a Massey University-led nationwide case-control study to identify risk factors. A common workplace hazard in the agricultural sector, the disease can cause disease and death in animals, and can transfer to humans causing hospital admissions…