EU: Experts call for increased efforts to tackle emerging zoonotic infections - (European Academies of Science Advisory Council)
June 3, 2008 – 6:37 pmZoonoses, diseases that are transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans, are on the rise, according to the latest report of the European Academies of Science Advisory Council (EASAC). To tackle the problem, the report calls for greater efforts to fill the gaps in research on these infections, as well as better surveillance mechanisms and increased international cooperation.
A zoonotic agent may be a bacterium, virus, fungus, parasite, or other communicable agent. Many of these are food borne and carried by domestic livestock, such as salmonella. More than 1,400 species of infectious agents are known to be pathogenic for humans, and approximately 60% of these are zoonotic.
Most ‘new’ human pathogens reported in the past 25 years have zoonotic origins, and the risk of infection is predicted to continue to increase due to changes to the global climate and our environment, and increased migration and mobility.
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