Reflections on One Health and Food Systems approaches--Op-ed by Hung Nguyen
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Dr. Hung Nguyen is the co-leader of Animal and Human Health Program at ILRI and was a member of the WHO team investigating the origins of COVID-19 in China. He recently published an op-ed about his experience–and what it means for the upcoming UN Food Systems Summit in The Telegraph. This is a short excerpt from that op-ed.
Early this year, I travelled to Wuhan as part of the WHO team of 10 scientists to investigate one of the most pressing scientific mysteries of our time: the origin of the COVID-19 virus.
While we didn’t find it—and the possibility of a lab leak…
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