Emerging infectious diseases in southeast Asia: regional challenges to control.

ABSTRACT: Southeast Asia is a hotspot for emerging infectious diseases, including those with pandemic potential. Emerging infectious diseases have exacted heavy public health and economic tolls. Severe acute respiratory syndrome rapidly decimated the region's tourist industry. Influenza A H5N1 has had a profound effect on the poultry industry. The reasons why southeast Asia is at risk from emerging infectious diseases are complex. The region is home to dynamic systems in which biological, social, ecological, and technological processes interconnect in ways that enable microbes to exploit new ecological niches. These processes include population growth and movement, urbanisation, changes in food production, agriculture and land use, water and sanitation, and the effect of health systems through gener

SUBMITTER: Coker RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7159088 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature