We Are All Connected: Looking at the Big Picture with One Health

We Are All Connected: Looking at the Big Picture with One Health

12/15/2021

From the winter issue of 'Microcosm'. The story of Dr. Tracey McNamara's role in identifying West Nile virus when it emerged in the US in 1999.

The emergence of West Nile virus in North America illuminated a stark divide between veterinary and human medicine, even though, as Dr. McNamara says, "the link between them is so obvious." West Nile isn't a freak outlier. Many dangerous and infectious pathogens have close ties to animals and the environment.

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