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In recent years, the circulation of infectious agents has increased significantly, along with the health risks potentially associated with them. The World Organisation for Animal Health (OMSA) highlights the threat that animal diseases pose to public health: 60% of human pathogens and 75% of emerging human pathogens originate from animals. These emerging, re-emerging, or endemic diseases highlight the importance of the animal–human or animal–vector–human interface in a context of globalized exchanges and environmental changes, suggesting that the control and management of these health risks can only be considered through a global and integrated approach.
The research conducted in our unit, UMR754 “Viral Infections and Comparative Pathology” (IVPC), therefore follows a One Health approach, which considers that human and animal health are interdependent and closely linked to the ecosystems in which they coexist.