Fang Guirong, Song Qunli
Zhejiang Normal University, China.
One Health. 2020 Dec 4;12:100195. doi: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100195. eCollection 2021 Jun.
The outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic is endangering the health of all humans and requires the urgent attention and active response of all countries and all areas of society. Existing studies have shown that wild animals are one of the sources of high-risk virus infection affecting human health, and human activities have largely shaped the routes of virus transmission. To protect wildlife is to protect human health. We should follow the concept of One Health to make corresponding legislation, so as to better coordinate the relationship among human health, animal health and environmental health. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 epidemic, China has taken many effective measures to prevent its spreading, including revision of Law. All sectors of the Chinese society have issued a strong appeal to pursue One Health and even specific legislative proposals. Because the current Law fails to properly reflect the concept of One Health, which is the root cause of the imperfect design of the system and the key to the unsatisfactory effectiveness of the legal application. China's new Law is expected to make a large-scale and systematic revision, which should fully implement the concept of One Health.
新冠疫情的爆发正危及全人类的健康，需要世界各国及社会各领域紧急关注并积极应对。现有研究表明，野生动物是影响人类健康的高风险病毒感染源之一，人类活动在很大程度上塑造了病毒传播路径。保护野生动物就是保护人类健康。我们应遵循“同一健康”理念进行相应立法，以更好地协调人类健康、动物健康和环境卫生之间的关系。自新冠疫情爆发以来，中国采取了诸多有效措施防止疫情蔓延，包括修订相关法律。中国社会各界纷纷发出强烈呼吁，倡导践行“同一健康”理念，甚至提出了具体的立法建议。因为现行相关法律未能恰当体现“同一健康”理念，这是制度设计不完善、法律适用效果不尽人意的根本原因。中国新的相关法律有望进行大规模、系统性修订，应全面贯彻“同一健康”理念。
