One medicine, One health could save my trip

3/04/2020

Dear diary,

Today I am living in a world that is stuck, no economy, and no social interaction. The reason is very simple: coronavirus. It ruined all my plans because I should be in a beach with my girlfriend right now, drinking some beer and having fun, but just because a little thing that is a virus (literally a microscopic thing) could not be handled in the proper way, the whole situation went wrong. The origin of this virus is not confirmed, but the real facts show that this virus is not new and can potentially affect animals, like chickens and some others that interact with us. I was thinking about my trip, but now I am thinking about one medicine one health concept because that could save my trip. I am going to explain it very quickly; one medicine one health concept is about taking into account the medicine as a whole. It means studying the animal medicine and the human medicine together and not separately as the traditional schools do, because at the end of the day, they are tight together because of the interaction that I already mention, but I am going to explain that later. This concept is not new and that makes feel angry because as I mention before I should be in a beach having fun with people that I love and not writing a blog of how sad I am feeling. However, I am right here, right now, stuck at home which I enjoy a lot but makes me rethink many things that could be done. The goal of this initiative is to promote application of a cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary approach to mitigate existing or potential risks to health that arise from the interactions of humans, animals and the environment. Now, having the goal clear I understand that this initiative should be promoted in better ways because despite of being a formal approach since 2006, it has not been very developed at a local level. Now I understand that if I join human and animal medicine that is going to give me a bigger picture in terms of diseases, or even medical improvements, and having it in the right manner, save us of the causes of our own interactions with the animals and the environment, and of course save my trip.