One Health legislation: Contributing to pandemic prevention through law
The COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging infectious diseases, as well as the continuing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), are reminding us of the close connections between human, animal and environmental health and the urgent need to address them in a holistic manner. Among newly discovered or emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), 75 percent are zoonotic (i.e. transmitted from animals to humans) (Taylor, Latham and Woolhouse, 2001). The unregulated expansion of livestock farming encroaches upon pristine habitats, pushing domestic animals, humans and wildlife into closer and more frequent contact, creating the same tinderbox for disease in animals as they do in humans (FAO, 2011a). Deforestation and other land use changes have an important part in the emergence of disease (Wilcox and Ellis, 2006).
https://biodiversitylinks.org/learning-evidence/one-health-evidence/one-health-evidence-inbox/fao-2020_one-health-legislation_contributing-to-pandemic-prevention-through-law.pdf/view
https://biodiversitylinks.org/learning-evidence/one-health-evidence/one-health-evidence-inbox/fao-2020_one-health-legislation_contributing-to-pandemic-prevention-through-law.pdf/@@download/image/image.png
File
One Health legislation: Contributing to pandemic prevention through law
Author(s):
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publication Date: 2019
DOWNLOAD FILE
The COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging infectious diseases, as well as the continuing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), are reminding us of the close connections between human, animal and environmental health and the urgent need to address them in a holistic manner. Among newly discovered or emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), 75 percent are zoonotic (i.e. transmitted from animals to humans) (Taylor, Latham and Woolhouse, 2001). The unregulated expansion of livestock farming encroaches upon pristine habitats, pushing domestic animals, humans and wildlife into closer and more frequent contact, creating the same tinderbox for disease in animals as they do in humans (FAO, 2011a). Deforestation and other land use changes have an important part in the emergence of disease (Wilcox and Ellis, 2006).
