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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

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

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

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

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.

Trust your vet

Trust your vet

The veterinary profession is used to dealing with this kind of deseases from their origins. The academic training in our profession implies taking care of people’s health through animal health care. And we put this into practice in our daily work within different areas of action of our profession:

• Animal health. Through the control of diseases in farm animals such as Tuberculosis, Brucellosis or Salmonellosis among others.

• Public health. Through food control ensuring food safety and the absence of infectious agents such as Listeria, Trichina, Toxoplasma or Anisakis.

• Research. Through the development of control systems, treatments and vaccines against these pathogens.

•Environment and Animal Conservation. The wild fauna is affected by climate change, with the appearance of invasive species that can bring new diseases such as the West Nile virus.

• Veterinary clinic. Promoting responsible pet ownership and acting in terms of control of diseases such as Rabies, Leishmania or Leptospirosis, among others.

The objective of this campaign is to explain to pet owners the relation between the health of animals and the health of human beings.

Your health is also ours
At the Veterinary Clinical Analytical Laboratory we work proactively with Veterinary Offices, Clinics and Hospitals, launching campaigns and providing informative materials that train responsible owners who fully enjoy their pets.

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