Artikel
Statement on the COVID-19 pandemic
Fighting the COVID-19 pandemic– Only a „One Health“-strategy can lead to success A statement of the head offices of the German Research Platform for Zoonoses on the current COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic is currently keping the whole world in suspense. The novel coronavirus, which was presumably first transmitted from aninmals to humans in China, is spreading globally at high speed by human-to-human transmission. Such zoonotic events are not rare. About two thirds of all new emerging diseases originate from animals. Coronaviruses demonstrated their zoonotic potential already in the