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OneHealthLessons.com has officially LAUNCHED!

May 1, 2020
********OneHealthLessons.com has officially LAUNCHED!*********

“At this website, you can access One Health lessons designed for children and the general public (**the COVID-19 lesson is up!**), review Train-the-Trainer sessions, watch inspiring webinars, listen to podcasts focusing on One Health education, see One Health lesson reviews, follow a One Health education blog and more ...”

Please visit this unique, ground breaking website at http://www.onehealthlessons.com/
Open forum: We need to think long-term and embrace the One Health concept. - Thursday, April 30, 2020
Open forum: We need to think long-term and embrace the One Health concept.

The Winchester Star

If we embrace the One Health concept, we can then plan an international viral repository of high-risk pathogens such as coronaviruses, avian ...

“... So what can we do?  We need to think long-term and embrace the One Health concept.  This concept states that we are all connected, that infectious diseases may rapidly spread from animals to humans, and from on continent to another. 

If we embrace the One Health concept, we can plan an international viral repository of high-risk pathogens such as coronaviruses, avian influenza and Ebola virus.  From this viral repository, we can develop specific viral vaccine [s] which may be stockpiled before the next epidemic begins. ...” 

Note: Jack Armstrong is a retired Winchester physician and a resident of Frederick County. He was chairman of the Infection Control Committee at Winchester Medical Center from 1978-2015. He was trained in infectious diseases at the University of Michigan and in epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). He was the physician in charge of the Valley Health response to the 2009 H1N1 influenza epidemic.

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