Early detection of emerging zoonotic diseases with animal morbidity and mortality monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Diseases transmitted between animals and people have made up more than 50% of emerging infectious diseases in humans over the last 60 years and have continued to arise in recent months. Yet, public health and animal disease surveillance programs continue to operate independently. Here, we assessed whether recent emerging zoonotic pathogens (n = 143) are known to cause morbidity or mortality in their animal host and if so, whether they were first detected with an animal morbidity/mortality event. We show that although sick or dead animals are often associated with these pathogens (52%), only 9% were first detected from an animal morbidity or mortality event prior to or concurrent with signs of illness in humans. We propose that an animal morbidity and mortality reporting program will improv

SUBMITTER: Bisson IA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7088161 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature