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S.3759 – Global Wildlife Health and Pandemic Prevention Act [Using One Health Approach]

August 4, 2020

Introduced in Senate (05/19/2020)

SEE: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3759/text

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Senator Lindsey Graham                                                                              Senator Chris Coons

A bi-partisan BILL [Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)] to close high risk wildlife markets and prevent wildlife disease transmission globally, and for other purposes...that incorporates utilization of the One Health approach, i.e.  “... the United States Government should utilize a One Health approach—a nonpartisan issue to emerging zoonotic and infectious disease prevention, detection, reporting, and response that leverages expertise across public health, epidemiology, wildlife and biodiversity conservation, food security, and veterinary medicine designed to eliminate the risk of future such zoonotic and emerging infectious disease epidemics and pandemics.”

Also please see additional explanatory links below: https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/sens-coons-graham-introduce-legislation-to-shut-down-high-risk-wildlife-markets-that-could-ignite-another-global-disease-outbreak and https://www.coons.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/One-pager%20for%20Global%20Wildlife%20Health%20and%20Pandemic%20Prevention%20Act%5b1%5d.pdf

 

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