OIE warns: Prepare for emerging disease challenges
Zoonotic diseases (those diseases that can spread between animals and people) continue to have a major impact on human health, according to experts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), and the World Health Organization (WHO). To support countries to control these diseases, the Tripartite organisations (FAO, OIE and WHO) launched a guide entitled ‘Taking a Multisectoral, One Health Approach: A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Countries’.
Every year, nearly 60 000 people die from rabies, and other zoonotic diseases such as avian influenza, Ebola or Rift Valley fever constitute additional threats. These diseases do not only affect human health, but also animal health and welfare, causing lowered productivity (milk or egg quality and safety, etc.), or death, and consequently affecting farmers’ livelihoods and countries’ economies, according to OIE press release.
The guide, referred to as the Tripartite Zoonoses Guide (TZG), provides principles, best practices and options to assist countries in achieving sustainable and functional collaboration at the human-animal-environment interface. Also, TZG is flexible enough to be used for other health threats; for example, food safety and antimicrobial resistance (AMR), said the organizations.
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