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Our summer 2021 newsletter includes a review of the 6th OHA Symposium held late last year, spotlights OSPRI New Zealand Limited and includes a link to a COVID-19 documentary featuring Prof Nigel French and Drs Jemma Geoghegan and Joep de Ligt.   View the OHA Summer 2021 newsletter.

Researchers from Massey University and the University of Warwick have found that non-dairy stock farmers are just as likely to get infected with leptospirosis as dairy farmers, proving the disease is no longer dominant in one farming sector. People contract leptospirosis from infected animal urine, and knowing the patient’s occupation is critical to combatting the ...

One Health Aotearoa investigators have been highly sought after as opinion leaders on the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to providing technical advice to various authorities, our investigators have featured prominently in the media in the effort to provide accurate and timely expert opinion on this developing situation and to keep New Zealand informed. A number ...

New variants of SARS-CoV-2 have now evaded New Zealand’s border protections twice to spread into the community. In the most recent outbreak, which placed Auckland into an alert level 3 lockdown, there are three active community cases of the more infectious B.1.1.7 lineage. While we have seen the virus mutate over the entire course of ...

Today’s provisional approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine means New Zealand could start rolling out its COVID-19 immunisation programme as early as next month. In announcing the approval, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said border workers and the people they live with, cleaners and nurses working at quarantine facilities, security and airline staff and hotel workers would ...

Two One Health Aotearoa investigators have been recognised in the 2021 New Years Honours list. Professor Stephen Chambers from the Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science, University of Otago, Christchurch, received the CNZM for services to infectious diseases research. Professor Chambers established the Infectious Diseases Department at Christchurch Hospital in 1987, the first such service ...

Our spring 2020 newsletter includes full programme information and details for our sixth Symposium next month, and highlights Legionella research by The Infection Group at the University of Otago, Christchurch.   View the One Health Aotearoa Spring 2020 newsletter.

One Health Aotearoa investigators involved in leptospirosis research have recently published a couple of articles in the journals Pathogens and Animals. Diverse Epidemiology of Leptospira Serovars Notified in New Zealand Dr Shahista Nisa and colleagues from ESR, University of Otago and Massey University used routinely collected leptospirosis surveillance data from 1999 to 2017 to highlight the ...