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Public health = animal health

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May 1, 2020

‘OneHealth’ was the big thing when Guido Camps (36) was still studying veterinary science. OneHealth refers to interdisciplinary collaboration to improve the health of people, animals and the environment. It was still a fairly theoretical concept back then though, with vets and doctors operating in separate worlds.

But COVID-19 has shown are closely we are interlinked with animals and the ways in which we deal with them. This virus came from animals and it is expected that future pandemics will also be zoonoses (diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans).