The Poultry Diseases Branch, in coordination with the continuing education unit at the college of veterinary medicine and in cooperation with the ministry of health, University of Kufa, Universities of Sulaimani and Duhok held a virtual symposium entitled “Tuberculosis within one health concept” with the participation of many lecturers from various Iraqi universities on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day and in support of the national and international programs to control this disease.
The lecturers discussed the close relationship among human, animal and environmental health and the need for exerting all possible efforts to meet the great challenges that threaten the global and regional health security, in light with the spread of a lot of common diseases at the present, including tuberculosis, which is a bacterial disease that is causing many economic losses in livestock due to the general wasting of animals and the destruction of infected organs. Tuberculosis constitutes a serious disease for human beings since the damage it causes to the lungs and other organs of the body, so there is an urgent necessity for concerted initiatives towards applying collaborative multi-sector and multidisciplinary approaches at the local and global levels to combat. The lecturers also stressed that achieving the concept of one health requires activating joint cooperation between state ministries and developing joint plans and legislation that may contribute to reducing its spread, especially raising awareness to avoid human injury and control of slaughter of animals.
