Pfizer

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Pfizers Response to Emerging Infectious
Diseases/Food Safety

• Shucheng Zhang, DVM, PhD
• VMRD, Pfizer Animal Health

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Rapidly Expanding Population Challenging Global
Resources

• Population dynamics

Source UNEP/GRID
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Migration into Urban Areas Taxes Social
Infrastructure
By 2050, the UN says, there may be 3.5 billion
slumdwellers, out of a total urban population of
about six billion.
Land encroachments increase wildlife interactions
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Rapidly expanding middle class driving The need
for Protein
Demand for Protein
Emerging market economies - inrease of the
global middle class 2000 56 2030 93 China
and India alone will account for 2/3 of this
expansion
Source A dynamic meat market towards 2020,
Kennes, 2010
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Global Food Supply

• In 2008, 21 Billion Production Animals, a global
  population of 6.5 billion people
• 50 Increase in Animal Protein by 2020

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A rapidly expanding middle class will lead to an
increase in trade
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Zoonotic Diseases

• At Least 60 Known Pathogens
• 75 of Emerging Pathogens

Rabies, Tuberculosis, West Nile Virus, Influenza,
SARS, Rift Valley Fever, Brucellosis, Anthrax
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Emerging Infectious diseases
Thomas P. Monath, MD
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Recent Food Threat Examples

• Incidental
• Beef
• Chicken
• Spinach
• Nuts
• Eggs
• Intentional
• Salad Bar / Salmonella, Oregon
• Melamine, Pet Food and Milk
• Strychnine-laced Meatballs, Virginia

Estimated 76 Million Cases of Food-borne Illness
Annually
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On newspaper Guangzhou Diary Over 500 Million
troubled eggs in the US
On CCTV Over 500 million eggs recalled Due to
Salmonella problem
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Significance of EID to Global Health and Wellness

• Approximately 60 of all human infectious
  diseases and 75 of emerging infectious diseases
  are zoonoses. (SARS, Lyme)
• Significant disruptions to food security through
• Reduced productivity
• Destroying a families livelihood E.g. PPR
  spreading across Africa
• Negatively impacts sustainability e.g.
  BlueTongue
• Disruption of food supply chains
• E.g. FMD in South Africa, South Korea hpAI
• Foodborne illnesses
• Real or perceived eg E.coli O157 and pH1N1
  respectively