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"One Health Day" Helps Solve Health Challenges

Wednesday, November 01, 2017 | 9:52am

NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Health and Tennessee Department of Agriculture are working to raise awareness of the connections among human, animal and environmental health with observances of the second annual international “One Health Day” Nov. 3, 2017.  

“The One Health concept recognizes the health of people, animals and the environment are all deeply connected. One Health Day highlights the need for a trans-disciplinary approach to solve critical global health challenges including emerging diseases, antimicrobial resistance, food safety, environmental pollution and many others.

“Identifying diseases that affect animals and could impact humans and doing all we can to stop them in their tracks before that happens is important  to the One Health approach,” said TDH Commissioner John Dreyzehner, MD, MPH. “We worked together to do this in a recent outbreak of avian flu in Tennessee, making sure the outbreak was stopped in poultry while at the same time protecting the humans involved from any opportunity to get the bird flu themselves, or mix a bird-type flu with a human flu virus.” ...”

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Winchester Herald Chronicle

The One Health concept recognizes the health of people, animals and the environment are all deeply connected. One Health Day highlights the need ...