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JOHNSON & SCHRADER PUSH TO IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS WITH COORDINATED “ONE HEALTH” APPROACH

March 19, 2021

March 18, 2021

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“One Health” Shores Up Efforts to Prepare for, and Prevent, Health Crises

 SEE: https://dustyjohnson.house.gov/media/press-releases/johnson-schrader-push-improve-public-health-preparedness-coordinated-one-health

March 18, 2021

Press Release

“One Health” Shores Up Efforts to Prepare for, and Prevent, Health Crises

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and Kurt Schrader (D-OR 5) introduced bicameral, bipartisan legislation to improve public health preparedness by ensuring federal agencies advance a “One Health” approach—the idea that human and animal health are linked, and that they should be studied together—to prevent and respond to disease outbreaks.

According to the CDC, the current COVID-19 virus originally came from an animal. The Advancing Emergency Preparedness Through One Health Act would improve coordination among those studying animal and human health by requiring the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Agriculture Department (USDA), and the Department of Interior (Interior) to adopt a One Health framework with other agencies. U.S. Senators Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) introduced bipartisan companion legislation in the Senate today. ...

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