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An Important One Health Dutch project – Funded by the Ministry of Health, The Netherlands OneHealth portal Zoonoses may pose a health risk to humans and animals. Signaling of a zoonosis is important for timely action can be taken in both the human and the veterinary domain. Outbreaks of avian influenza and Q fever have shown that the effect can be large for public and animal health. The OneHealth portal is intended for professionals from the human and the veterinary domain. It is a digital platform for human-veterinary information exchange and cooperation to facilitate. Target groups are veterinarians, doctors, employees of human and veterinary research institutes and other professionals working in the field of zoonoses and the risks to it. In OneHealth portal existing alert services housed as vetinf @ ct, inf @ ct and EZIPs (web-based Emerging Zoonoses Information and Priority System). In the calendar you can find current information about OneHealth activities in the Netherlands and abroad. Besides information will in future also be possible to exchange information or to use the portal for joint projects. This secure member site for different purposes can be used by professionals. The OneHealth portal is still under development. Once the member site is set up to professionals than this log.  What does the OneHealth portal? Binding platform for medical and veterinary experts Platform for regional networks and other zoonoses one health initiatives Central site for the hosting of e-mail systems such as inf @ ct and vetinf @ ct  Definition Onehealth The One Health concept is a worldwide strategy for expanding interdisciplinary collaborations and communications in all aspects of health care for humans, animals and the environment. The synergism Achieved will advance healthcare for the 21st century and beyond by accelerating biomedical research discoveries, enhancing public health efficacy, expeditiously expanding the scientific knowledge base, and Improving medical education and clinical care. When Properly Implemented, it will help protect and save untold millions of lives in our present and future generations.Source: Kaplan et al The brewing storm. Monograph about One Medicine - One Health concept. http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/9.pdf  http://www.onehealthportal.nl/home.aspx              Also please see: http://www.onehealthportal.nl/documenten.aspx & http://www.rivm.nl/RIVM