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Legislation advancement of one health in China in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of the wild animal conservation law

The outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic is endangering the health of all humans and requires the urgent attention and active response of all countries and all areas of society. Existing studies have shown that wild animals are one of the sources of high-risk virus infection affecting human health, and hum...

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Autores principales: Fang, Guirong, Song, Qunli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7734215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33335968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100195
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description The outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic is endangering the health of all humans and requires the urgent attention and active response of all countries and all areas of society. Existing studies have shown that wild animals are one of the sources of high-risk virus infection affecting human health, and human activities have largely shaped the routes of virus transmission. To protect wildlife is to protect human health. We should follow the concept of One Health to make corresponding legislation, so as to better coordinate the relationship among human health, animal health and environmental health. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic, China has taken many effective measures to prevent its spreading, including revision of the Wild Animal Conservation Law. All sectors of the Chinese society have issued a strong appeal to pursue One Health and even specific legislative proposals. Because the current Wild Animal Conservation Law fails to properly reflect the concept of One Health, which is the root cause of the imperfect design of the system and the key to the unsatisfactory effectiveness of the legal application. China's new Wild Animal Conservation Law is expected to make a large-scale and systematic revision, which should fully implement the concept of One Health.
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spelling pubmed-77342152020-12-16 Legislation advancement of one health in China in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of the wild animal conservation law Fang, Guirong Song, Qunli One Health Short Communication The outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic is endangering the health of all humans and requires the urgent attention and active response of all countries and all areas of society. Existing studies have shown that wild animals are one of the sources of high-risk virus infection affecting human health, and human activities have largely shaped the routes of virus transmission. To protect wildlife is to protect human health. We should follow the concept of One Health to make corresponding legislation, so as to better coordinate the relationship among human health, animal health and environmental health. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic, China has taken many effective measures to prevent its spreading, including revision of the Wild Animal Conservation Law. All sectors of the Chinese society have issued a strong appeal to pursue One Health and even specific legislative proposals. Because the current Wild Animal Conservation Law fails to properly reflect the concept of One Health, which is the root cause of the imperfect design of the system and the key to the unsatisfactory effectiveness of the legal application. China's new Wild Animal Conservation Law is expected to make a large-scale and systematic revision, which should fully implement the concept of One Health. Elsevier 2020-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7734215/ /pubmed/33335968 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100195 Text en © 2020 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title Legislation advancement of one health in China in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of the wild animal conservation law
title_full Legislation advancement of one health in China in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of the wild animal conservation law
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title_short Legislation advancement of one health in China in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: From the perspective of the wild animal conservation law
title_sort legislation advancement of one health in china in the context of the covid-19 pandemic: from the perspective of the wild animal conservation law
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7734215/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33335968
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100195
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