One Health

<p>Emerging infectious diseases are often due to environmental disruption, which exposes microbes to a different niche that selects for new virulence traits and facilitates transmission between animals and humans. Thus, health of humans also depends upon health of animals and the environment – a concept called One Health. This book presents core concepts, compelling evidence, successful applications, and remaining challenges of <i>One Health</i> approaches to thwarting the threat of emerging infectious disease.</p> <p>Written by scientists working in the field, this book will provide a series of “stories” about how disruption of the environment and transmission from animal hosts is responsible for emerging human and animal diseases.</p> <ul> <li>Explains the concept of <i>One Health</i> and the history of the One Health paradigm shift.</li> <li>Traces the emergence of devastating new diseases in both animals and humans.</li> <li>Presents case histories of notable, new zoonoses, including West Nile virus, hantavirus, Lyme disease, SARS, and salmonella.</li> <li>Links several epidemic zoonoses with the environmental factors that promote them.</li> <li>Offers insight into the mechanisms of microbial evolution toward pathogenicity.</li> <li>Discusses the many causes behind the emergence of antibiotic resistance.</li> <li>Presents new technologies and approaches for public health disease surveillance.</li> <li>Offers political and bureaucratic strategies for promoting the global acceptance of One Health.</li> </ul>