Africa needs to prioritize One Health approaches that focus on the environment, animal health and human health

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Infection and Travel Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Leeds, UK. akanotu@yahoo.com.
• ² Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria. akanotu@yahoo.com.
• ³ Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria.
• ⁴ National Veterinary Research Institute, Vom, Nigeria.
• ⁵ Centre for the Control and Prevention of Zoonoses (CCPZ), University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• ⁶ Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ⁷ Animal Disease Control, Subdivision-North West, Oshakati, Namibia.
• ⁸ African Palliative Care Association, Makindye, Kampala, Uganda.
• ⁹ Nigerian Infectious Diseases Society, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ¹⁰ Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Niger Delta University, Yenagoa, Nigeria.
• ¹¹ The Nigerian Academy of Science, Abuja, Nigeria.
• ¹² College of Medical Sciences, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria.
• ¹³ Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.