Cuddling your kitten is ok, so why isn’t kissing your chicken?

One Health is the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines — working locally, nationally, and globally — to make people, animals, and our environment as healthy as possible. It’s not a new concept, but it has become more important in recent years as we work to combat animal-borne diseases, which make up 75 percent of today’s emerging infectious diseases. CDC promotes the One Health approach by working with physicians, veterinarians, ecologists, and many others to monitor and control public health threats by learning about how diseases spread.