The cow, the flea and the genome: One Health and the statecraft of prevention
A cattle virus at home and a plague scare abroad make the same argument this World One Health Day: life is epidemiologically indivisible, and the institutions that govern and study it must learn to be so too
In the third century BCE, Emperor Ashoka inscribed on stone that he had provided medical care to both humans and animals and had planted healing herbs where they were scarce. This idea of treating the health of people, animals, and the environment as interconnected dates back over 23 centuries. Rudolf Virchow, a physician who coined the term "zoonosis," revived this notion during the microscope era, emphasizing that the distinction between human and animal medicine is artificial and should no longer exist.
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