Abstract

Zoonoses are challenges global health issues that need to address. World Health
Organization in the middle of 2015 reported sixty percent of the human pathogen are the
animal origin. The seventy percent of it are emerging disease which could transmit from
animal to human such as tuberculosis, rabies, brucellosis, leptospirosis, avian influenza and
many more. It is required to develop strategies and polices for unities of addressing zoonotic
disease by veterinary, medicine, public health and environmental health.
Zoonoses are responsible for a disproportionately large burden on the poor and
marginalized communities. Additionally, zoonoses represent an impoverishing force by having
a dual impact on human and animal health, and reduced productivity from affected livestock
leading to worsening poverty. Another challenge of zoonoses is that they vary from country-
to-country and represent a very context-specific issue. The varying degrees of systems
capacity to respond to the needs of an integrated plan for prevention and control of zoonoses
also presents a challenge in devising a uniform plan across countries or even within the same
country across areas with contextual divergence. To establish an effective and integrated
prevention and control plan, the first step is to identify the knowledge gaps about zoonoses in
a particular setting and prioritize them. It might be argued that the approach to zoonoses
research has been rather ad hoc, being mostly reactive, influenced “by the political economy
of external pandemic threats”, and conducted in response to public perception of threats
rather than based on a systematic identification of priorities that lead to a reduction in disease
burden over time. In this regards we presents an example tuberculosis as zoonotic diseases,
using a One Health approaches.