Calling for a COVID-19 One Health Research Coalition

Abstract

Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website.Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre -including this research content -immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

SARS-CoV-2 jumping the species barrier: Zoonotic lessons from SARS, MERS and recent advances to combat this pandemic virus

“…Being a zoonotic disease with still unknown intermediate host, undisclosed features of a novel viral pathogen, unclear modes of transmission and ecological aspects, less explored pathogenesis and substantial morbidity and considerable mortality, the safety of all is a matter of great concern, and thus the involvement of various authorities was sought since the inception of disease [ 26 , 31 , 192 , 193 ]. The first time the need for One Health concept has risen to a level that authorities in various countries implemented coordinated approaches between medical, veterinary, public health, wildlife, food safety, environmental departments and so on [ [193] , [194] , [195] ]. That involved acquiring suggestions, diagnosis and prevention and treatment measures and their implementation in collaboration.…”

One Health or Planetary Health for pandemic prevention? – Authors' reply

“…TR reports grants from the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Technology by the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen linkages with the evolving climate change and planetary health community 5 in designing, coordinating, and synthesising research to promote a healthy and sustainable planet. 6 In effect, the boundaries of One Health and planetary health approaches are irrelevant when the outcome of management and prevention of pandemics is placed into perspective.…”

Eine Gesundheit

“…Die Bedeutung des One-Health-Gedankens wurde nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie für viele überhaupt erst erkennbar [6] 1 .Menschen sind nun einmal nicht die einzigen Lebewesen auf der Erde. Insbesondere seit dem Übergang vom Jäger und Sammler zu Ackerbau und Viehzucht leben Mensch mit vielen Arten -Haustieren, Nutztieren, aber auch Parasiten und Schädlingen -eng zusammen.…”