Over the past 20 yr we have witnessed epizootics and epidemics involving several pathogenic diseases representing global threats to animal and human health. In the past 5 yr alone epidemiologists and public health workers have been alerted on the ProMed computer site (http://www.promedmail.org) to many human and animal diseases that were transported from one country to another. These included African trypanosomiasis, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, campylobacteriosis, cholera, Crimea–Congo hemorrhagic fever, cyclosporiasis, dengue, diphtheria, dracunculus, heartwater, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections, hepatitis types A, B, and E, infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR), influenza A, Japanese encephalitis, Lassa fever, legionellosis, malaria, Newcastle disease, paratyphoid, plague, rabies, Ross River virus infection, shigellosis, trichinellosis, tularemia, typhoid, West Nile fever virus, yellow fever, and yersiniosis. Primarily parasitic diseases, but also a few major diseases caused by other infectious agents, are presented as examples of emerging diseases in the following discussion. Many...
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December 2000
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December 01 2000
GLOBAL CHANGE AND EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Ronald Fayer
Ronald Fayer
Livestock and Poultry Sciences Institute, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, Maryland 20705
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J Parasitol (2000) 86 (6): 1174–1181.
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Ronald Fayer; GLOBAL CHANGE AND EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. J Parasitol 1 December 2000; 86 (6): 1174–1181. doi: https://doi.org/10.1645/0022-3395(2000)086[1174:GCAEID]2.0.CO;2
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