The Berlin Principles

The 12 Manhattan Principles - aka One Health - were penned in 2004. And these in 2019 were updated through the Berlin Principles¹. And though these were covered in the past, let’s take a second look.

The post to which I refer is this.

One Health: The Berlin and Manhattan Principles

To quickly summarise the Manhattan Principles, it’s about conflating human and animal health, accepting that decision by man lead to a change of land use, and this drives illness some of which cause zoonotic illnesses leading to disease in humans, and we all know that these are terrifying, simply terrifying and in no way made up in exactly the way that the 1997 H5N1 event in Hong Kong wasn’t a big, fat, zoonotic lie.

The 1997 H5N1 Pandemic That Wasn't