Broadening our perspectives as physicians: one world-one medicine-one health

Robert E. Dedmon

doi:10.2478/abm-2010-0063

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Broadening our perspectives as physicians: one world-one medicine-one health

Asian Biomedicine

Volume 4 (2010): Issue 3 (June 2010)

By: Robert E. Dedmon

Open Access

|Apr 2018

Abstract

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew ! (Marshall Mcluhan). Understanding the emergence of new zoonotic agents requires knowledge of pathogen biodiversity in wildlife, human-wildlife interactions, anthropogenic pressures on wildlife populations, and changes in society and human behavior [1].

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