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News: One World, One Disease - effects of climate change on animal and human health
Posted by: JimEdwards on Jul 08, 2008 - 04:09 PM
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 Three quarters of emerging human diseases are transmitted from animals. Professor Malcolm Bennett, from the National Centre for Zoonoses Research at the University of Liverpool, reminded delegates of this statistic at the ‘One World, One Disease,’ seminar at the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM), on 24 June 2008.
It was one of the facts that made the event - which explored the impact of climate change on plant, human and animal health - such an important one.
The event was jointly organised by the RSM and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), and in her welcome address, RSM President Professor Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaff suggested that the organisation should really be considered “the Royal Society of Dentists, Medics and Veterinary Surgeons”, as all shared common interests and must work closely together.
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