India needs 'One Health' policy to eradicate zoonotic diseases

India needs to tweak her public health policy on eradication of endemic and emerging zoonotic diseases by replacing the pathogen-centric approach with a holistic human-animal-environment approach. Public health experts and scientists at an international conference looking at a variety of zoonotic pathogens – bugs which jump from animals to humans – felt that India urgently needs to put in place a ‘One Health’ programme that focuses on factors beyond pathogens.