OneHealth

Question 1

What three disciplines does OneHealth consider?

Answer 1

Human health, animal health, and environmental health

Question 2

What are potential drivers of emerging infectious diseases

Answer 2

changing habitats, changing interface between humans and habitats, deforestation, increased urbanization

Question 3

What are two concerns associated with commercial food-animal production?

Answer 3

antibiotic use on food-animals
environmental spread of drug-resistant bacteria from runoff into soil and waterways

Question 4

Who is most at risk of zoonotic diseases in communities near food-animal production facilities

Question 5

How does antibiotic resistance happen?

Answer 5

some germs are naturally resistant to antibiotics –> antibiotics kill good bacteria –> antibiotic resistant bacteria grow and take over –> can even give their resistance to other bacteria