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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Health or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Health ;
One Health is an approach calling for "the collaborative efforts of multiple disciplines working locally, nationally, and globally, to attain optimal health for people, animals and our environment", as defined by the One Health Initiative Task Force (OHITF).^[2] It developed in response to evidence of the spreading of zoonotic diseases between species and increasing awareness of "the interdependence of human and animal health and ecological change".^[3]^: 205^[4] 

In this viewpoint, public health is no longer seen in purely human terms.^[5]^[6] 

Due to a shared environment and highly conserved physiology, animals and humans not only suffer from the same zoonotic diseases but can also be treated by either structurally related or identical drugs. For this reason, special care must be taken to avoid unnecessary or over-treatment of zoonotic diseases, particularly in the context of drug resistance in infectious microbes.^[7]

DJ, In practice there is NO mandatory testing in the US for H5N1 in cattle...Since "it only is an eye infection" many farm workers (some without a good legal status-ill=out of the job/income) do not get tested while they did catch H5N1 from infected cattle, poultry...(or co-workers ???) .

ANY DISEASE IN AN ANIMAL CAN BECOME A HUMAN RISK !!!!!

But "economy/profits first/only" is ignoring tens of millions of animals with CoViD, flu or a combination of both...Both CoViD and flu are NOT ONLY a human health issue...

The basic idea/science behind "One Health" is the realization that what happens in one species may affect other species...

DJ...but again..."science is in the way of profits"...profits=donors for "politics for sale"...