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“You cannot have good public health unless you have good animal health. And you can’t have good animal health unless you have good public health”
- James H. Steele, DVM, MPH: One Health Wonders, JAVMA Vol. 232, No 12, News, June 15 2008 - Dr. Steele founded the Veterinary Public Health Division of CDC in 1947.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) One Health Office is participating in National Pet Week this year from May 2-8, 2021. Keeping pets and other animals healthy is an essential part of a One Health approach to public health: healthy pets can lead to healthier people! To celebrate, CDC’s One Health Office will be promoting messaging around healthy pet habits, pet preparedness, and considerations for keeping pets and people healthy as we spend more time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Significant CDC’s resources:
Provided by:
Laura (Smith) Murrell, MA, Communication Lead, One Health Office, Health Communication Specialist, Health Communication Science Office, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Note:
The CDC’s One Health Office is currently under the extraordinary Direction of Casey Barton Behravesh, MS, DVM, Dr.PH, DACVPM and Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH is the outstanding new CDC Director.
Quick Links
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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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Pan European Networks SciTech Europa Quarterly
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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