Emergence/re-emergence of infectious agents and epidemic risks in Central African forests. (Les forets du bassin du Congo: Etat des Forets 2021.) [French]
Emergence/reemergence d'agents infectieux et risques epidemiques dans les forets d'Afrique centrale 2022. 284-308.
; 2022.
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| CAB Abstracts | ID: covidwho-2011055
ABSTRACT
The years 2020-2021 will remain marked by the COVID-19 crisis. This pandemic was triggered by a coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which jumped the species barrier between a wild species (as yet unknown) and humans, somewhere in China in 2019 (Andersen et al. 2020). Beyond the number of deaths caused directly by COVID-19, this crisis will have a long-term impact on our societies. This pandemic is not the first of its kind in modern times. The 2014-2016 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa (and its resurgence in 2021), was also a major wake-up call of the threat of a pathogen moving from wildlife to human populations (Heymann et al. 2015). The list of emerging animal-derived pathogens that have threatened to, or succeeded in, reaching epidemic or pandemic levels after interspecies transmission is already long (e.g., HIV, SARSCoV-1, MERS-CoV, Nipah virus, Rift Valley fever). Today, emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), defined here as "pathogens that are rapidly increasing in geographic expansion, host range, or prevalence" (Daszak, Cunningham, and Hyatt 2000;Tompkins et al. 2015), represent one of the major risks to human health and societies. Indeed, these EIMs have been increasing over the past few decades (Binder et al. 1999;Woolhouse and Gowtage-Sequeria 2005). More than 60% of known EIMs are due to an animal pathogen (Morens, Folkers, and Fauci 2004;Jones et al. 2008), and an estimated 75% of these infectious diseases that have emerged over the past three to four decades originate in wildlife (Woolhouse 2002;Wolfe, Dunavan, and Diamond 2007).
Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Humans [VV210]; Public Health Pests, Vectors and Intermediate Hosts [VV230]; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology) [KK100]; viral diseases; human diseases; coronavirus disease 2019; forests; Rift Valley fever; vector-borne diseases; human health; wildlife; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; man; China; Central Africa
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Reemergence d'agents infectieux et risques epidemiques dans les forets d'Afrique centrale 2022. 284-308.
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2022
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