Animal health vital to avoid repeat of covid-19 - OIE
30/07/2020
Around 75% of emerging infections having been transferred from animals, attendees heard.
Dr Jean-Philippe Dop, deputy director of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), said: “With the pandemic likely originating in wet markets that largely escape veterinary surveillance, it is clear that animal health systems need strengthening as a pillar of One Health, an approach to improving health that links human, animal and environmental health inextricably.”
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