Wildlife and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases

by Childs, James E.; Mackenzie, John S.; Richt, Jurgen A.

• ISBN13: 9783540709619
• ISBN10: 3540709614
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-03
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Zoonotic pathogens and their wildlife reservoirs are the source of most emerging infectious diseases in humans. AIDS, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, SARS, monkeypox, and the human ehrlichioses are a few examples of the devastating effects achieved by cross-species transmission of the viral and bacterial pathogens of wildlife. Many factors contribute to the appearance and spread of a pathogen, including changes in host/pathogen evolution and interaction; human demographics, behavior, and technology; environmental factors; and the availability of health care and a public health infrastructure capable of providing surveillance and interventions aimed at disease prevention and control. Additionally, historical factors and the coalescence of particular circumstances modify the conditions by which pathogens and species have an opportunity to intermix, evolve, and spread.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Conceptualizing and Partitioning the Emergence Process of Zoonotic Viruses from Wildlife to Humans	p. 1
Infectious Disease Modeling and the Dynamics of Transmission	p. 33
The Evolutionary Genetics of Viral Emergence	p. 51
Influenza Viruses in Animal Wildlife Populations	p. 67
Overviews of Pathogen Emergence: Which Pathogens Emerge, When and Why?	p. 85
Infection and Disease in Reservoir and Spillover Hosts: Determinants of Pathogen Emergence	p. 113
Henipaviruses: Emerging Paramyxoviruses Associated with Fruit Bats	p. 133
Emergence of Lyssaviruses in the Old World: The Case of Africa	p. 161
Tuberculosis: A Reemerging Disease at the Interface of Domestic Animals and Wildlife	p. 195
Emergence and Persistence of Hantaviruses	p. 217
Arenaviruses	p. 253
Ecological Havoc, the Rise of White-Tailed Deer, and the Emergence of Amblyomma americanum-Associated Zoonoses in the United States	p. 289
Bats, Civets and the Emergence of SARS	p. 325
Poxviruses and the Passive Quest for Novel Hosts	p. 345
Ebolavirus and Other Filoviruses	p. 363
Pre-spillover Prevention of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases: What Are the Targets and What Are the Tools?	p. 389
Impediments to Wildlife Disease Surveillance, Research, and Diagnostics	p. 445
Collaborative Research Approaches to the Role of Wildlife in Zoonotic Disease Emergence	p. 463
Surveillance and Response to Disease Emergence	p. 477
Index	p. 511
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