Humans have never been healthier, wealthier or more numerous. Yet, present success may be at the cost of future prosperity and in some places, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, poverty persists. Livestock keepers, especially pastoralists, are over-represented among the poor. Poverty has been mainly attributed to a lack of access, whether to goods, education or enabling institutions. More recent...

Concern over emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) and a better understanding of their causes has resulted in increasing recognition of the linkages among human, animal, and ecosystem health. It is now well recognized that human activities can promote the emergence of infectious diseases through the large-scale modification of natural environments and inadvertent vectoring (e.g., international tr...

movie of the 2006 summer season. It featured reptiles smuggled onto an airplane as an unusual bioweapon of mass destruction. In a much less dramatic fashion, this absurd scenario plays out every day, when tons of live animals and unprocessed animal products are shipped internationally around the globe, providing many opportunities for rapidly translocating zoonotic pathogens. Episodes of emergi...

A cross-sectional study was conducted to investigate seroprevalence of canine leptospirosis in urban Harare and five selected rural communities in Zimbabwe and to assess public awareness of the disease. Sera from randomly selected dogs were tested for antibodies to the serovars Canicola, Grippotyphosa, Icterohaemorrhagiae and Pomona of Leptospira interrogans using an enzyme-linked immunosor...

The efficacy of science communication can be influenced by the cultural values and cognitions target audiences, yet message framing rarely accounts for these cognitive factors. To explore effects tailored to specific we investigated relationships between one form cognition—political ideology—and perceptions about zoonotic origins COVID-19 pandemic using a nationally representative Qualtrics XM ...

Brucellosis is a zoonotic disease affecting humans, domesticated livestock and wildlife considered one of the most common economically important zoonoses globally. Megersa B, et al.

Pandemic zoonoses, such as COVID-19, are one of the greatest challenges 21st century. International governance tasked with attempting to prevent (re-)emergence zoonotic disease in first place, or preparation and actual response once spread has occurred, largely been fragmented among different systems, health, food, environment, trade. The international legal instruments that these systems use r...

Wild animals particularly non human primates are the potential sources of bacterial, viral and parasitic zoonoses. Primates share parasites, Entamoeba sp., Giardia sp., Ascaris sp., Strongyloides sp., etc morphologically similar to human beings, although most of these parasites need to verify genetically. Some of the viral diseases have already been proved to be transmissible from non human pri...

Zoonotic diseases represent one of the leading causes of illness and death from infectious disease. Worldwide, zoonotic diseases have a negative impact on commerce, travel, and economies. In most developing countries, zoonotic diseases are among those diseases of major public health significance and contribute significantly to an already overly burdened public health system. In industrialized n...