One health: pandemic effects on companion animals and owners

By P. Sandøe & S. Corr (2020)
VetTimes, Vol 50, Issue 19: 12-14

Excerpt

The concept of one health – recognising the interdependence of human, animal and environmental health – has been brought into sharp focus in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The animal source of Covid-19 has yet to be confirmed, but the pandemic is believed to have originated in a “wet market” in Wuhan, China, where live animals, birds and fish were butchered and sold alongside dead ones. Since first emerging in January, coronavirus has spread rapidly across the globe – at the time of going to press, more than 3 million people have been infected, and of those, nearly 215,000 have died (World Health Organization, 2020).

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