Reprint

One Health and Zoonoses

Edited by
August 2019
140 pages
  • ISBN978-3-03921-295-8 (Paperback)
  • ISBN978-3-03921-296-5 (PDF)

This is a Reprint of the Special Issue One Health and Zoonoses that was published in

Biology & Life Sciences
Medicine & Pharmacology
Public Health & Healthcare
Summary

The One Health concept recognizes that the health of humans, animals, and their ecosystems are interconnected, and that a coordinated, collaborative, multidisciplinary, and cross-sectoral approach is necessary to fully understand and respond to potential or existing risks that originate at the animal–human–ecosystems interfaces. Thus, the One Health concept represents a holistic vision for addressing some of the complex challenges that threaten human and animal health, food safety, and the environments in which diseases flourish.

There are many examples showing how the health of humans is related to the health of animals and the environment. Diseases shared between humans and animals are zoonoses. Some zoonoses have been known for many years, whereas others have emerged suddenly and unexpectedly. Over 70% of all new emerging diseases over the past few decades have been zoonoses that have emerged from wildlife, most often from bats, rodents, or birds. Examples of zoonoses are many and varied, ranging from rabies to bovine tuberculosis, and from Japanese encephalitis to SARS. Clearly, a One Health approach is essential for understanding their ecology, and for outbreak response and the development of control strategies.

However, the One Health concept and approach is much broader than zoonoses; it extends to including antimicrobial resistance, food safety, and environmental health and, consequently, impacts on global health security, economic wellbeing, and international trade. It is this breadth of One Health that connects the papers in this Special Issue.

Format
  • Paperback
License and Copyright
© 2019 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
Clostridium difficile; Asia; epidemiology; One Health; C. burnetii; Q fever; Australia; pyrogenicity; guinea pigs; One Health; antibiotics; antimicrobials; antimicrobial resistance; environment; water; infrastructure; Australia; emerging disease; international health regulations; Joint External Evaluation (JEE); One Health; Performance of Veterinary Services (PVS); surveillance; wildlife; zoonosis; Japanese encephalitis virus; zoonosis; mosquito; transmission; Australia; Australian bat lyssavirus; microbats; Western Australia; serology; Luminex; real-time PCR; AMR; One Health; food chain; trade; Codex; WHO; World Trade Organization (WTO); scrub typhus; One Health; incidence; clinical pattern; descriptive epidemiology; vector-borne disease; emerging disease; One Health; zoonoses; Ebola virus; emerging infectious diseases; zoonoses; prevalence; Brucella abortus; urban livestock keeping; smallholder farming; n/a; influenza; swine; Australia; human; pandemic

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