"The World Health Organisation team currently in China is expected to find that SARS-CoV-2 (the virus which causes COVID-19) originated in animals – that bats and possibly pangolins made us sick. But if this is confirmed, what can we do? Can we prevent such a devastating outbreak happening again?

Fortunately, the short answer is ‘yes we can’.

In the scientific community, there is widespread agreement that the best way to deal with this type of animal threat to human health is by taking what is called a One Health approach.

This approach is grounded in a pretty straightforward idea – that the health of humans, animals and the environment are linked. Basically, healthy animals and a healthy environment contributes to a healthy human population."

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