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One Health is concerned with challenges regarding health risks and the prevention of zoonotic disease transmission. The transmission of diseases from one species to another results in zoonoses. One Health focuses on the control of the emergence and re-emergence of diseases by taking preventive measures. Humans and animals live in the same environment, and they also share similar pathogens that affect them. Zoonotic diseases spread when humans and animals interact, and this is due to urbanization, which involves other factors as well. For instance, environmental change, inadequate sanitation, human encroachment into urban areas, and the clearing of natural habitats. The interaction with wildlife or domestic animals causes infectious diseases. Therefore, proper management and awareness among people mitigate the effects of diseases. One Health approach is crucial as it assists in strategies to handle the threats to health and how to be prepared enough at that time to handle infectious disease outbreaks, and which preventive measures should be taken at that time. With proper coordination among society and sharing data, information enhances the impact of surveillance, whether the disease is acute or chronic, or it is transmitted from which species, and affects individuals and prevents the outbreak of the disease.