Zoonosis emergence linked to agricultural intensification and environmental change

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 110; no. 21; pp. 8399 - 8404
• Main Authors: Jones, Bryony A., Grace, Delia, Kock, Richard, Alonso, Silvia, Rushton, Jonathan, Said, Mohammed Y., McKeever, Declan, Mutua, Florence, Young, Jarrah, McDermott, John, Pfeiffer, Dirk Udo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 21.05.2013; National Acad Sciences
• Subjects: AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT SPECIAL FEATURE; Agriculture; Animals; Bats; Behavior; Biological Sciences; Climate Change; Communicable Diseases, Emerging; Disease transmission; Environmental changes; Epidemiology; evolution; Host-Pathogen Interactions; human behavior; human population; Human populations; Humans; Infectious diseases; Intensive farming; Livestock; Models, Biological; Pathogens; risk; Risk assessment; Sustainable agriculture; systematic review; Viruses; Wildlife; Zoonoses; epidemiology; health; ecology; ecosystem

A systematic review was conducted by a multidisciplinary team to analyze qualitatively best available scientific evidence on the effect of agricultural intensification and environmental changes on the risk of zoonoses for which there are epidemiological interactions between wildlife and livestock. T...