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ArticleVeterinaria italiana

Human and animal sentinels for shared health risks.

Peter Rabinowitz, Matthew Scotch, Lisa Conti

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Article in Veterinaria italiana. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 83 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Peter RabinowitzYale Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program, Yale University School of Medicine, 135 College Street, 3 Floor, New Haven, CT 06510, Tel 203-785-6434, Fax 203-785-7391.
Matthew Scotch
Lisa Conti
Yale University · US

Funding

Animals as Sentinels of Human Environmental HazardsG08LM007881 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI RABINOWITZ, PETER MACGARR · 2003 to 2005
$447k
Informatics for zoonotic disease surveillance: combining animal and human dataK99LM009825 · NLM · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI SCOTCH, MATTHEW · 2008 to 2010
$230k
NLM NIH HHS G08 LM007881NLM NIH HHS K99 LM009825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The tracking of sentinel health events in humans in order to detect and manage disease risks facing a larger population is a well accepted technique applied to influenza, occupational conditions, and emerging infectious diseases. Similarly, animal health professionals routinely track disease events in sentinel animal colonies and sentinel herds. The use of animals as sentinels for human health threats, or of humans as sentinels for animal disease risk, dates back at least to the era when coal miners brought caged canaries into mines to provide early warning of toxic gases. Yet the full potential of linking animal and human health information to provide warning of such "shared risks" from environmental hazards has not been realized. Reasons appear to include the professional segregation of human and animal health communities, the separation of human and animal surveillance data, and evidence gaps in the linkages between human and animal responses to environmental health hazards. The One Health initiative and growing international collaboration in response to pandemic threats, coupled with development the fields of informatics and genomics, hold promise for improved sharing of knowledge about sentinel events in order to detect and reduce environmental health threats shared between species.

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Animal sentinelsBiodiversityComparative medicineEnvironmental HealthGenomicsMedical InformaticsSentinel surveillanceZoonoses

Identifiers

PMID20148187
PMCPMC2818012
OpenAlexW214164130

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