About three-quarters of emerging human infections originate in animals. India, with 1.4 billion people, some 536 million livestock and the world’s largest milk output, sits at the centre of this arithmetic. Image used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ B In the second of his Major Rock Edicts, cut into stone in the third century BCE, Ashoka records that he has provided medical care of two kinds, for people and for animals, and has had healing herbs planted wherever they were lacking. Twenty-three centuries before the phrase existed, an Indian State treated the health of humans, animals and the land as a single charge of government. Rudolf Virchow, who introduced the word ‘zoonosis’, restated the idea for the age of the microscope: between animal and human medicine there is no dividing line, nor should there be. Published - November 03, 2026 12:36 pm IST
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