Controlling emerging zoonoses at the animal-human interface.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For many emerging or re-emerging pathogens, cases in humans arise from a mixture of introductions (via zoonotic spillover from animal reservoirs or geographic spillover from endemic regions) and secondary human-to-human transmission. Interventions aiming to reduce incidence of these infections can be focused on preventing spillover or reducing human-to-human transmission, or sometimes both at once, and typically are governed by resource constraints that require policymakers to make choices. Despite increasing emphasis on using mathematical models to inform disease control policies, little attention has been paid to guiding rational disease control at the animal-human interface.

Methods

We introduce a modeling framework to analyze the impacts of different disease c

SUBMITTER: Mummah RO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7550773 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature