Emerging Zoonoses and Global Health
A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Emerging Pathogens".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 7465
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the qualities that defines today’s era is the speed and the magnitude at which change occurs. We live in an increasingly globalized world, whether at a commercial, economic or pathogen distribution level. Most of these changes have an anthropic origin and may have an impact on viral zoonoses and consequently on human health. Much of these changes affect wildlife and we know that wildlife plays a key role in the emergence of infectious diseases, as they provide a “zoonotic pool” from which pathogens can emerge. The majority of human viruses, emerging or otherwise, originated from animals. Examples include HIV, dengue, measles, SARS-CoV, smallpox, Ebola, Zika, MERS and SARS-CoV-2. Nowadays zoonotic diseases can have an unprecedented impact on the global human population. Often, from our anthropocentric perspective we forget that we are also part of nature. The humans are part of an extremely complex biosphere, with multitude relationships between living organisms and the environment. The modification of these relationships can favour the viruses cross the species barrier and infect the humans.
This special issue topic wants to include articles that analyse the factors that can affect the emergence of viral zoonoses either by favouring the species leap or the spread of zoonotic viruses. In this sense, we encourage to send us papers with an epidemiological, virological or ecological approach.
Dr. Jordi Serra Cobo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- viral zoonoses
- infectious diseases
- global health
- emerging zoonoses
