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Epidemiology
Prevention
In the ACVLAB laboratory we have been developing informative campaigns for a long time aiming to raise awareness of all citizens, especially pet owners, about the importance of carrying out periodic check-ups that help to prevent infectious diseases.
A healthy life
Current context
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For decades different international organizations have been warning about the need to extend animal health control plans as an essential tool for improving people’s health.
The pandemic has highlighted the extreme severity that an infectious disease can reach when it makes the leap to a different animal species than usual.
In this context, the lockdown led to a much greater relationship with our pets than in other years. During the crisis, the adoption rate has also increased, so has the number of pet owners.
Infectious diseases
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Zoonoses are diseases that are transmitted between animals and people directly or indirectly. It is for this reason that the collaboration of pet owners to prevent these diseases has become an essential task.
«More than 60% of the diseases that affect humans today originated in animals according to the OIE».
Their health
is also ours
One Health – Una salud
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Since the beginning of the century, there has been a new perspective in public health that acquires greater repercussion from different professionals working together under the common concept One health – Una salud; officially endorsed by three international organizations:
World Health Organization (WHO)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
One Welfare – Un bienestar
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It’s important to highlight this change in the perspective, as it has become wider and
interconnected, and has recently been complemented by the One Welfare – Un bienestar; the well-being of animals, of our pets, generates the well-being of people, and vice versa.
Raising awareness and informing is a task available to everyone.