A review on effects of microplastics on animal, environment and human health considering One Health perspective

초록

One Health means that human, animal and environmental healths are organically interconnected, not separated independently, which affect one another. The COVID-19, a respiratory infection, started in 2019 in Wuhan, China was spreaded into the globe and many peoples were died of it. From that, we have become to realize that animal's health, as a pathway of its infection, is closely related to human health and a necessity of a holistic approach considering their interaction with the ecosystem (environment), has arisen. Especially, the zoonosis (disease transmitted to humans), medical antibiotics, drugs, and microplastics are known to affect adversely both animal and ecosystem's healths, in addition to human health. Here we examined the impacts of microplastics, a new emerging contaminant of concern, on animal, human, and environment and their interaction with a perspective of the One Health. Based on this review, we want to provide a basis to devise a mitigation countermeasure for microplastics in the near future.

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