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ONE HEALTH
The World Health Organization describes One Health as an approach to designing and implementing programmes, policies, legislation and research in which multiple sectors communicate and work together to achieve better public health outcomes. The areas of work in which a One Health approach is particularly relevant include food safety, the control of zoonoses (diseases that can spread between animals and humans), and combating antibiotic resistance. Many of the same microbes infect animals and humans, as they share the ecosystems they live in. Efforts by just one sector cannot prevent or eliminate the problem*.
The Mnisi tribal area bordering the Kruger National Park.
* http://www.who.int/features/qa/one-health/en/
