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Submitted to One Health Initiative website August 6, 2013   Hospital personnel need greater awareness of animal-to-human disease threats   The Royal Society of Medicine - Managing patients for zoonotic disease in hospitals, Warwick, C. & Corning, S. (2013).  J R Soc Med Sh Rep., 4: 1–9. DOI: 10.1177/2042533313490287   Clifford Warwick, PGDipMedSci, CBiol, CSci, EurProBiol, FOCAE, FSB Consultant Biologist & Medical Scientist Riverside House, River Lawn Road, Tonbridge, Kent TN9 1EP, UK mail@emergentdisease.org cliffordwarwick@yahoo.com   Susan Corning, BA, MSc, BVSc, MRCVS, FRSPH Director, Collaborating for Global Health Bologna, Italy www.collab4globalhealth.com dr.susan.corning@collab4globalhealth.com   “Noscomial disease transmission is a true “One Health” issue, and there is an urgent need for the medical and veterinary professions to collaboratively plan to ensure that hospital staff can implement simple and effective measures to prevent and control this transmission.”   Please see: http://shr.sagepub.com/content/4/8/2042533313490287.full.pdf+html