One Health: The Human-Animal-Environment Interfaces in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Introduction.- One Health: its origins and its future.- The concept of One Health.- One Health and emerging infectious diseases: clinical perspectives.- The historical, present, and future role of veterinarians in One Health.- The importance of understanding the human-animal interface.- the human environment interface: Applying ecosystem concepts to health.- Wildlife: the need to better understand the linkages.- The economic value of One Health in relation to the mitigation of zoonotic disease risks. - Examples of a One Health approach to specific diseases from the field .- The application of One Health approaches to henipavirus research. - H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza in Indonesia: Retrospective considerations.- Rabies in Asia: the classical zoonosis.- Japanese encephalitis: On the One Health agenda.- Cost estimate of bovine tuberculosis to Ethiopia.- The pandemic H1N1 influenza experience.- One Health: The Hong Kong experience with avian influenza.- Clostridium difficile infection in humans and piglets: a 'One Health' opportunity.- Cysticercosis and Echinococcosis.- Men, primates and germs: an ongoing affair.- Subject index.