One Health Conversation with Dr. Jenifer Chatfield

Dr. Jenifer Chatfield discusses the notion of one health and zoonotic disease on the national Steve Dale’s Pet World radio show. These terms, always known in veterinary medicine, have now popped into the popular press as a result of the pandemic. Touching on the notion of new pathogens, and the impact of the co-called wet markets in the Far East in all this.  We even discuss how zoos are protecting animals against SARS Co-V2 with the vaccine for COVID-19.

Unlike zoo animals, we share our lives and even our beds with dogs. We discuss leptospirosis and dogs, and why it’s important – not only for dogs but for people to protect dogs against lepto.