The incidence and frequency of epidemic transmission of zoonotic diseases, both known and newly recognized, has increased dramatically in the past 30 years. It is thought that this dramatic disease emergence is primarily the result of the social, demographic, and environmental transformation that has occurred globally since World War II. However, the causal linkages have not been elucidated. In...

Zoonotic diseases are infectious diseases that are naturally transmitted from vertebrate animals to humans and vice versa. They are caused by all types of pathogenic agents, including bacteria, parasites, fungi, viruses and prions. Although they have been recognised for many centuries, their impact on public health has increased in the last few decades due to a combination of the success in red...

Wildlife are now recognised as an important source of emerging human pathogens, including parasites. This paper discusses the linkages between wildlife, people, zoonotic parasites and the ecosystems in which they co-exist, revisits definitions for 'emerging' and 're-emerging', and lists zoonotic parasites that can be acquired from wildlife including, for some, estimates of the associated global...

Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) damage agriculture and the environment, as well transmit diseases to animals people. Hunters are particularly vulnerable zoonotic disease risks when harvesting wild...

background: the present study was aimed to elucidate the status of intestinal hel­minth infec­tions in canids of moghan plain, northwestern iran. methods: eighty-five intestine samples from dead or shot wild canids, 59 fecal samples from sheepdogs and 5 from red foxes were collected from 2006 to 2008 and examined in parasitology department of pasteur institute of iran. results: generally, adult...

Crit Care Resuscitation ISSN: 1441-2772 1 September 2006 8 3 186-186 © C r i t C a r e Re s us c i t a t i on 9 06 www.jficm.anzca.edu.au/aaccm/journal/publications.htm Editorials significant morbidity and mortality. However, the c festations vary from asymptomatic to mild, right the severe forms described in these reports. Leptospirosis is a contagious zoonotic disease and humans caused by spi...