{
  "id": 17925272,
  "title": "The cow, the flea and the genome: One Health and the statecraft of prevention",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/the-cow-the-flea-and-the-genome-one-health-and-the-statecraft-of",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-03T07:06:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu Health",
    "slug": "the-hindu-health",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/the-cow-the-flea-and-the-genome-one-health-and-the-statecraft-of-prevention/article71630249.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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",
  "key_points": [
    "Emperor Ashoka promoted integrated health care over 2,300 years ago",
    "Rudolf Virchow revived One Health concept during microscope era",
    "One Health emphasizes interconnectedness of human, animal, environmental health"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Recognizing the biological links between humans, animals, and their shared environment collapses the artificial boundaries of traditional medicine to foster a more integrated approach to global disease prevention.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}