Control and prevention of infectious diseases from a One Health perspective.

ABSTRACT: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caught the attention of the global community and rekindled the debate about our ability to prevent and manage outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics. Many alternatives are suggested to address these urgent issues. Some of them are quite interesting, but with little practical application in the short or medium term. To realistically control infectious diseases, human, animal, and environmental factors need to be considered together, based on the One Health perspective. In this article, we highlight the most effective initiatives for the control and prevention of infectious diseases: vaccination; environmental sanitation; vector control; social programs that encourage a reduction in the population growth; control of urbanization; safe sex stimulation; testing;

SUBMITTER: Ellwanger JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7856630 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature