Zoonotic diseases are estimated to constitute 75% of all emerging infectious diseases, of
which more than 70% come from wild species. The potential threat of zoonotic spillover from …

Since 1980, the world has been threatened by different waves of emerging disease
epidemics. In the twenty-first century, these diseases have become an increasing global …

Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

The World Health Organization defines a zoonosis as any infection naturally transmissible
from vertebrate animals to humans. The pandemic of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) …

The transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans is called “zoonotic spillover”.
Most human infectious diseases (60-75%) are derived from pathogens that originally …

This book examines trade and trafficking in endangered animal species and how the trade
increasingly puts large numbers of nonhuman species at risk. Focusing on illegal trafficking …

Identifying the animal reservoirs from which zoonotic viruses will likely emerge is central to
understanding the determinants of disease emergence. Accordingly, there has been an …

Human-mediated changes to natural ecosystems have consequences for both ecosystem
and human health. Historically, efforts to preserve or restore 'biodiversity'can seem to be in …

The emergence of COVID-19 has drawn the attention of health researchers sharply back to
the role that food systems can play in generating human disease burden. But emerging …

Zoonotic disease outbreaks are an important threat to human health and numerous drivers
have been recognized as contributing to their increasing frequency. Identifying and …