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Truly Emerging — A New Disease Caused by a Novel Virus

Year: 2011

Type: editorial

Abstract: Contrary to predictions of the mid-20th century, infectious diseases are on the rise, threatening human and animal health on both local and global scales. Multiple factors are contributing to the emergence or reemergence of infectious diseases, including increasing human intrusion into the natural environment, with behavioral changes associated with expanding economic development.1 In addition to the global viral killers (e.g., human immunodeficiency virus and influenza virus), which are huge regional and global public health burdens, viral zoonoses in particular have become more prominent worldwide. A multidisciplinary approach to addressing zoonotic diseases is being promoted, and the “one world, one health” . . .

Source: New England Journal of Medicine

DOI: 10.1056/nejme1102671

Author: Heinz Feldmann

Institutions: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba

Language: English

Topic: Zoonotic diseases and public health

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: National Institutes of Health