The One Health Movement: A Necessary Approach to Disease Prevention
A One Health Need: Improved Surveillance of Zoonotic Diseases in Animals
One Health principles draw the connections between human, animal and environmental health. It wasn’t so long ago that the heroic work of a veterinary pathologist at a zoo connected the deaths of wild urban animals and zoo animals to the deaths of New York residents from the newly introduced West Nile Virus. Monitoring of animals […]
A One Health Look at Coronaviruses: How They Affect Humans, Dogs, Cats, and More
Calling SARS-CoV-2 “the coronavirus” has created a lot of confusion. “Wait, my cat had coronavirus last year, what was that?” Or “My son was sick with a cold at last year and my doctors said it might be coronavirus. Was there coronavirus last year?” SARS-CoV-2 is a “novel” coronavirus. “Novel” means “new” or at least […]
One Health Trio: Dr. Breitschwerdt’s Three Publications about Vector-borne Pathogens and His Family
As often happens in healthcare, specialists enter their field because of a personal experience with their specialty or because those personal experiences find them or those whom they love. The vector-borne disease researchers at Galaxy Diagnostics include people with these experiences. We are pleased to see One Health Month giving people the opportunity to tell […]
For One Health Awareness Month: Resources for One Health Education
The term “One Health” refers to how the health of people, animals, and their shared environment are interdependent. Despite the importance of this multidisciplinary view, it is rarely applied to education standards across the globe. Why is one health education important? What resources are available? “One Health” is not necessarily a new concept, but it […]