• One Health · Jun 2020

    Editorial

    Surveillance to improve evidence for community control decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic - Opening the animal epidemic toolbox for Public Health.

    • Alessandro Foddai, Ann Lindberg, Juan Lubroth, and Johanne Ellis-Iversen.
    • National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
    • One Health. 2020 Jun 1; 9: 100130.

    AbstractDuring the first few months of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic reached Europe and spread around the world. Health systems all over the world are trying to control the outbreak in the shortest possible time. Exotic disease outbreaks are not uncommon in animal health and randomised surveillance is frequently used as support for decision-making. This editorial discusses the possibilities of practicing One Health, by using methods from animal health to enhance surveillance for COVID-19 to provide an evidence base fort decision-making in communities and countries.© 2020 The Authors.

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