One Health: Antimicrobial Resistance and Emerging Zoonoses Conference
The One Health: AMR & Emerging Zoonoses Conference is an exciting collaboration between the Antimicrobial Resistance – One Health Consortium (AMR-OHC), Canadian Antimicrobial Resistance Network (CAN-AMR-Net) and the Canadian One Health Training Program for...
Putting knowledge into action: the third annual symposium on antimicrobial resistance advances our fight against AMR
December 16, 2024 By Sunitha Chari Coinciding with the World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Week, the Emerging and Pandemic Infections Consortium (EPIC) once again co-hosted the third annual AMR Symposium on November 19 and 20 empowered by bioMérieux Canada and...
Ghana’s priority zoonotic diseases: a One Health approach
EPIC member Samira Mubareka hosts Theophilus Odoom (Accra Veterinary Laboratory) for a special seminar on applying One Health to the surveillance of high consequence zoonotic viruses.
Study identifies new SARS-CoV-2 variant in white-tailed deer and first evidence of deer-to-human transmission
A team of researchers led by EPIC member Samira Mubareka has characterized a new, highly divergent variant of SARS-CoV-2 in Ontario white-tailed deer. They also found the first evidence of deer-to-human transmission.