One Health—the Key to Preventing COVID-19 from Becoming the New Normal

Abstract

While we experience the most significant zoonotic pandemic in 100 years, we would do well to consider how we arrived at this historic moment and how we will prevent the next pandemic. In this commentary, we explore the human drivers of emerging infectious diseases and contend that a One Health approach—in which multiple disciplines work together to ensure the health of environments, humans, and non-human animals—is imperative to get through this pandemic and to prevent future ones.

Keywords

• anthropogenic drivers
• biodiversity loss
• climate change
• emerging infectious diseases
• habitat loss
• spillover
• wet markets