Understanding and Controlling Zoonoses under the Prospective of Global Health

Dear Colleagues,

Zoonoses have always been a field of collaboration between clinicians and veterinarians. However, both areas have seen their roles evolve over the preceding decades. The challenges of our age are represented by, globalization, climate change and the consequences of these areas on public health. Moreover, in veterinary medicine, the progressive industrialization of breeding systems has had huge impacts on the traditional spectrum of animal diseases and on the ways to prevent and control them. A more comprehensive approach is needed: ecologist, botanists, climatologists have to be enrolled in teams, together with sociologists, economists and anthropologists to support the public health officers and epidemiologists in facing the threads of emerging and re-emerging diseases.  The most important challenge in this area is the inclusion of environmental changes among determinants of public health issues. With this aim, the four most important international agencies (Fao, Oms, Woah and Unep) have established an agreement to work together for the health and wellbeing of people, animals, plants and environment. Multidisciplinary initiatives are starting to take shape all over in the world.  

As such, we are pleased to announce this Special Issue of Veterinary Sciences to collect contributions on the application of multidisciplinary skills to the study, surveillance and control experiences in relation to public and veterinary health.

We aim to elevate interdisciplinarity and emphasize the value it can add to the study of diseases of animals, humans and the environment. Examples of potential topics include on successful experiences of integrated surveillance, and control and innovative organizational and scientific model aimed at the data collection.

Moreover, manuscripts should focus on environmental changes that cause important changes in the epidemiology of neglected or well-known zoonoses. Particular attention will be paid to emerging diseases and to demonstrated species jump events.

Dr. Paola Scaramozzino
Guest Editor

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• zoonosis
• emerging infectious diseases
• surveillance