Emerging Infections: A Tribute to the One Medicine, One Health Concept ...

• Main Authors: Kahn, R. E., Clouser, D. F., Richt, J. A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Chordata; Animalia; bats; bat; Avian flu
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13410638; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13410638

(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) Summary Events in the last decade have taught us that we are now, more than ever, vulnerable to fatal zoonotic diseases such as those caused by haemorrhagic fever viruses, influenza, rabies and BSE/vCJD. Future research activities should focus on solutions to these problems arising at the interface between animals and humans. A 4‐fold classification of emerging zoonoses was proposed: Type 1: from wild animals to humans (Hanta); Type 1 plus: from wild animals to humans with further human‐to‐human transmission (AIDS); Type 2: from wild animals to domestic animals to humans (Avian flu) and Type 2 plus: from wild animals to domestic animals to humans, with further human‐to‐human transmission (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS). The resulting holistic approach to emerging infections links microbiology, veterinary medicine, human medicine, ecology, public health and epidemiology. As emerging 'new' respiratory viruses are identified in many wild and domestic ...