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and Monkeypox virus are notable examples of emerging zoonotic pathogens. Among zoonotic diseases associated with birds, avian influenza is the most important zoonotic infection. Wild birds have ...
The challenge of a zoonotic disease turning into a pandemic is that, on first sight, the paradigm of learning from examples seems to fall apart. We don’t have years of observations to teach a machine, ...
Did you know that more than 75% of new infectious diseases affecting humans originally come from animals? Bats, in particular, are natural hosts to some of the world's most dangerous viruses, ...
raising significant concerns about zoonotic and reverse zoonotic disease risks, as the affected farm also reported swine flu among its pigs. Similar human-to-pig transmissions have been documented ...
Zoonotic diseases continue to be a threat to global ... It is flexible enough to be used for other health threats; for example, food safety and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Examples of transmissible bird diseases associated with pigeons, geese, starling and house sparrows: Besides being direct carriers of disease, nuisance birds are frequently associated with over 50 ...
Zoonoses, infectious diseases which are transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans, present considerable public health, social and economic risks. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, it was ...
Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics ...
Filthy farms and markets packed full of sick, distressed animals are potential breeding grounds for deadly new viruses that can jump from animals to humans. Some of the world’s leading health ...