One Health approach seen as key to epidemic control

Implementing the One Health approach could effectively control and prevent the increasing rate of zoonotic disease outbreaks in Africa, which have become a severe threat across the continent, experts say.

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases that spread from animals to humans.

Mbaabu Mathiu, a professor of environmental physiology and ethnomedicine, said that in the past 10 years, about 60 reported epidemics in Africa have been zoonotic diseases.