《主催者および座長メッセージ

ORGANIZER & CHAIR MESSAGE》

日常生活でペットからうつる人と動物の共通感染症
Zoonosis: Diseases that Transfer Between Pets and Humans in Daily Life
国立感染症研究所感染症情報センター センター長・岡部 信彦

Nobuhiko OKABE, MD, PhD, Director,Infectious Diseases Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases

Hello, everybody. Thank you very much for making

their own doctor groups, so there are very few points

the effort to attend this meeting in spite of the snowyof contact between the two groups. We wanted toweather. I came here from Tokyo by Shinkansen, anddiscuss the issue by bringing doctors and veterinarians

the train was delayed for a long time due to the snow.

together. That is how this study group began.

Today, several speakers will be giving talks on theFor the present project, we selected the theme ofsubject of “Zoonoses: Diseases that transfer between

zoonoses. I am sure those of you who are here at thispets and humans in daily life.” We have a study

meeting have a rough grasp of this subject already,group on zoonoses and that group has been helping

as pets are naturally subject to a number of diseases.

out with this project. When talking about diseases

The general contents of our study meeting have been

affecting people and animals, the term “zoonosis”

outlined in a pamphlet, entitled “Handbook of Infectious(plural “zoonoses”) has been widely used in English

Diseases of Animal Origin 2012”. In here, the sentenceover the years. We thought that this term was difficult“rules should be followed even among intimate friends”

for Japanese people to understand, and when theappears. What this means is that because animals can’tterm is written in Japanese, the characters don’t haveunderstand people, the onus is on people to understanda very good feel, so we named our study group “Hitoanimals well and care about them. Also, it is better toto Dobutsu no Kyotsu Kansensho Kenkyukai” (Study

prevent diseases spreading from animals to humans inGroup on Infectious Diseases Common to Humans andthe first place than be forced to treat them after theyAnimals).

have already spread to humans. That is the main driftof the study meeting.

I am originally a pediatrician so I am actually a doctor
who specializes in medicine for people. Indeed, doctors

On page 26, in the first of the Workshop I abstracts, I

who work in the animal field such as veterinarians canhave written that “animals can’t think about how they

discuss common themes such as the human diseases

relate to us, but we can think about how to relate tothat also infect animals, although this is something thatthem.” This is my key concept.

happens rather rarely in practice. Accordingly, we haveheld discussions with veterinarians on the keyword ofI have asked four researchers to give talks today.

animal diseases that infect humans, and tried to findI myself am Nobuhiko Okabe from the Infectious

some points in common between the two.

Diseases Surveillance Center of the National Institute ofInfectious Diseases, and I will be serving as moderator

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Up to now, such meetings or discussions betweenof this workshop. Within Japan’s Ministry of Health,doctors and veterinarians have been held only rarely.

Labour and Welfare - the administrative agency in

Mostly veterinarians only talk about this issue withincharge of human health matters - there is a section that

their own veterinarian circles, while doctors do so indeals with infectious diseases called the ‘Tuberculosis

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and Infectious Disease Control Division’. Groups ofveterinary technical officers and specialists are at workin the division. These groups are working on diseases
that spread from people to animals, animal diseases,
and they issue official warnings about these diseases,etc. Several leading experts in various fields from thesegroups are also with us today.
The first talk is entitled “Cat-Scratch Disease”. The
lecturer is Professor Soichi Maruyama of the College ofBioresource Sciences at Nihon University. The second
talk is entitled “Bacterial infection from Dogs and Cats –Brucellosis and Capnocytophaga canimorsus infection”.
These names may be rather unfamiliar to you but they
are infectious diseases which we all need to be vigilant
about. The lecturer is Professor Koichi Imaoka, Chiefof the Laboratory of Reservoir Control of Zoonoses atthe Department of Veterinary Science of the National
Institute of Infectious Diseases. The third talk, on thesubject of “What is Psittacosis? – Worry-free living withCompanion Birds”, will be given by Professor Hideto
Fukushi of Gifu University. And lastly, under the title of“Countermeasures in Japan for Preventing Zoonoses”,
Dr. Takeshi Morita of the Tuberculosis and Infectious
Disease Division at the Health Service Bureau of theMinistry of Health, Labour and Welfare will speak
about how administrative cautions are issued. It seems
that we have ample time, so if you have any questions,
not limited to the subjects of the talks but also on
general issues related to animal-derived infectious
diseases, please feel free to ask, and we will attempt toanswer them to the best of our knowledge, although if
the question falls outside our areas of specialty, we may
not always be able to provide a clear answer. So thatsums up how this section has been constructed. Pleasejoin in as much as you can.
Now, I would like to introduce the first speaker,
Professor Soichi Maruyama. Looking at his talk title, thekeyword is “cat” and the title is “Cat-Scratch Disease”.
Professor Maruyama, please begin.

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