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WHO | World Health Organization 19 January 2022 Statement
“the need for an on-going integrated One Health approach to SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, research, and response efforts. “.
The Committee discussed key issues including:
- challenges and opportunities to harmonize national and global response efforts within the context of the synchronous outbreaks of Omicron VOC, including in relation to international travel;
- drivers for emergence of new VOCs as well as differences in the characteristics of Delta and Omicron VOCs and their respective lineages;
- the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 testing strategies as well as accessibility and affordability of medical countermeasures;
- vaccination strategies and the use of heterologous vaccine combinations;
- the challenges to maintain continued community buy-in for public health and social measures after two years of the pandemic and the risk of overly optimistic statements regarding the state of the pandemic;
- the increasing levels of threat and concerns about personal safety faced by frontline responders, advisors and leaders of the pandemic response;
- the focus of response efforts on a combination of suppression of transmission and mitigation of severe outcomes; and
- the need for an on-going integrated One Health approach to SARS-CoV-2 surveillance, research, and response efforts.
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Please see MONOGRAPH in Veterinaria Italiana
“One Health – One Medicine”: linking human, animal and environmental health
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History of the One Health Initiative team and website (April 2006 through September 2015) and the One Health Initiative website since October 1, 2008 … revised to June 2020 and again to date February 2021
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Vaccines for zoonoses: a One Health paradigm
SciTech Europa Quarterly (March 2018) – Issue 26
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SciTech Europa Vaccines for zoonoses: a one Health paradigm – Pages 227-229 (Read PDF) “One of the One Health Initiative team’s co-founders and leaders is an internationally-recognized eminent physician…
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