Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
The challenges for surveillance and control of zoonotic diseases in urban areas.
- Journal:
- Annali dell'Istituto superiore di sanita
- Year:
- 2006
- Authors:
- Poglayen, Giovanni
- Affiliation:
- Università · Italy
Plain-English summary
Veterinary medicine is facing new challenges in urban areas as the relationships between people and animals evolve. With the rise of new animals, different ways of using them, and emerging diseases that can spread from animals to humans, public veterinary services are under pressure to address these issues. The traditional way of teaching veterinary medicine is shifting towards a more comprehensive approach that includes collaboration with various professionals to ensure the health of people, animals, and the environment. This new focus on urban veterinary hygiene highlights the need for teamwork and a broader understanding of health in our communities.
Abstract
The world is rapidly changing in many aspects concerning veterinary medicine, and man-animal relationships in urban areas represents a real challenge for the profession. Unlike the vertical approach of the academic teaching tradition, veterinary urban hygiene needs a strong holistic-epidemiologic support. Year by year, new animals, new animal uses, new fashions, new zoonoses, and new problems appeared amplified by media with the duty of the public veterinary services to solve them. The practical experience of many years of these continuous challenges is now concentrated on a new health sector: urban veterinary hygiene that now calls for a multidisciplinary and intersectoral collaboration with other professional categories to guarantee human, animal and environment health.
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