Emerging infectious diseases – overview

Infectious diseases and the pathogens that cause them have posed significant public health threats for millennia, and plagued mankind since the dawn of humanity (Tables 1 and 2).1 –7 Human encroachment into previously unexplored or underdeveloped regions, has led to changes in demographic migrations – human, vector and pathogen.4–6 This alters the ecology, as well as the adaptive ability of vectors, and pathogens and may release heretofore unidentified pathogens; all th ese contribute to a wider range of threat, thus posing potentially greater numbers of illness than previously reported.
Source: Disease a Month - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research