Infectious diseases: “Human health, animal health and the environment are closely linked”

In a contribution made public this Saturday, the Scientific Council invites us to decompartmentalize the world of health and reorganize the decision-making circuits to better prevent epidemics. Interview with one of its members, veterinarian Thierry Lefrançois,

How to prevent the appearance of new epidemics? After two years of global health crisis, governments and international organizations realize the obvious: only a global approach to health, integrating animal health and the environment, can protect the human species against the ravages of new agents. pathogens. Adopting this new vision of health, called One Health, is a necessity for Thierry Lefrançois, veterinarian and member of the Scientific Council, who is making a contribution on the subject public this Saturday. This calls for the establishment of further cooperation between the Ministries of Health, Agriculture and Ecological Transition.

In its latest contribution, the Scientific Council calls for the need to develop a global, interdisciplinary vision of health, following the concept of One Health. What is it about ?

One Health means “One Health”. This is a way of saying that human health, animal health and the environment are closely linked, particularly in the field of infectious diseases. It is because human activities have modified the balance of certain ecosystems that pathogenic agents initially circulating in wild animals pass…