Date Time Share Young people and adolescents know too little about pathogens such as Covid-19 – which are reciprocally transmitted from animals A school-based scientific study in Italy, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Mauritius and Japan shows that young people know too little about reciprocal disease transmission from animals to humans (zoonoses) and the integrative management of health risks (One Health concept). Management of zoonitic spill over with One Health. | Fig. P. Zucca The results of the international study were published in the scientific journal Frontiers in public health. The EU-funded BIO-CRIME project – with support from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) – conducted a scientific investigation on the topic of illegal small animal trade and the associated risk of pathogen transmission.