UNEP Frontiers 2016 Report - Zoonoses: Blurred Lines of Emergent Disease and Ecosystem Health

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationScience Division
dc.contributor.otherGrace, Delia
dc.contributor.otherBett, Bernard
dc.contributor.otherLee, Hu Suk
dc.contributor.otherMacMillan, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-07T06:41:01Z
dc.date.available2020-04-07T06:41:01Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionThe 20th century was a period of unprecedented ecological change, with dramatic reductions in natural ecosystems and biodiversity and equally dramatic increases in people and domestic animals. Never before have so many animals been kept by so many people—and never before have so many opportunities existed for pathogens to pass from wild and domestic animals through the biophysical environment to affect people causing zoonotic diseases or zoonoses. The result has been a worldwide increase in emerging zoonotic diseases, outbreaks of epidemic zoonoses as well as a rise in foodborne zoonoses globally, and a troubling persistence of neglected zoonotic diseases in poor countries. Full report is available at: https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/7664en
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dc.identifier.isbn978-92-807-3553-6
dc.identifier.otherDEW/1973/NA
dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/32060
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number14 pages
dc.relation.ispartofUNEP Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectzoonotic disease
dc.subjecthealth
dc.subjectenvironmental health
dc.subject.sdgSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-Being
dc.subject.sdgSDG 15 - Life on Land
dc.subject.themenatural areas
dc.subject.themelandscape
dc.subject.themeecosystems
dc.titleUNEP Frontiers 2016 Report - Zoonoses: Blurred Lines of Emergent Disease and Ecosystem Health en
dc.typeTechnical report

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