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Excellent One Health blog and video...   Internal Medicine News – “News and Views that Matter to Physicians”   One Health Explores Animal to Human Spread of Disease   “People don’t live in bubbles; people live on a planet teeming with animals and pathogens, a frothing soup that simmers or boils depending on how the environment fires the pot. That’s an oversimplified – and overwrought – analogy, but the fact remains, people face infectious-disease risks from the living world around them. That’s the essence of the One Health concept, which is a way of thinking about how new human infections arise and spread. ...” Please read more http://www.internalmedicinenews.com/views/blognosis-the-internal-medicine-news-blog/blog/one-health-explores-animal-to-human-spread-of-disease/0acadab8995f3dd792abe9c2f671fb1b.html and see video with visionary One Health comments by Timothy Brewer, MD, MPH.  Dr. Brewer is the UCLA Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary and Cross-campus Affairs http://evc.ucla.edu/announcements/appointment-of-timothy-f.-brewer-as-vice-provost-for-interdisciplinary-and-cross-campus-affairs.   Note: This article appears by permission of Internal Medicine News http://www.internalmedicinenews.com/.