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The Evolution of One Health: A Decade of Progress and Challenges for the Future

The Evolution of One Health: A Decade of Progress and Challenges for the Future

Author(s): E. Paul J. Gibbs, , Veterinary Record

Publication Date: 2014

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In the early years of the 21st century, emerging zoonotic viruses that had the potential to cause pandemic disease, including extensive human mortality, created several international crises (Gibbs 2005). Governments and scientists worldwide recognised that greater interdisciplinary collaboration was required to prevent and control zoonoses, and that such collaboration should include not only physicians and veterinarians, but also wildlife specialists, environmentalists, anthropologists, economists and sociologists, among others. The expression ‘One Health’ was proposed as a concept to foster such interdisciplinary collaboration.

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