West African Countries to Target Human and Animal Health Together to Combat Disease Outbreaks

At a conference in Dakar, Senegal, leaders of several countries in West Africa pledged to consider human, animal, and environmental health together in order to reduce the risk of outbreaks of diseases such as Ebola, Zika and bird flu that can be passed between animals and people.

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