2014
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090032
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Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter

Abstract: Despite increasing control measures, numerous parasitic and infectious diseases are emerging, re-emerging or causing recurrent outbreaks particularly in Asia and the Pacific region, a hot spot of both infectious disease emergence and biodiversity at risk. We investigate how biodiversity affects the distribution of infectious diseases and their outbreaks in this region, taking into account socio-economics (population size, GDP, public health expenditure), geography (latitude and nation size), climate (precipita… Show more

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“…64,65 There has been substantial recent attention investigating the relationship between biodiversity and human health, 26,66 but there are few concrete examples of the potential for synergistic interventions that benefit both. 67,68 However, the biodiversity benefits of eradicating introduced mammals from islands has been well documented, 55,69 and our study enables a way to connect these biodiversity benefits to improve public health.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…64,65 There has been substantial recent attention investigating the relationship between biodiversity and human health, 26,66 but there are few concrete examples of the potential for synergistic interventions that benefit both. 67,68 However, the biodiversity benefits of eradicating introduced mammals from islands has been well documented, 55,69 and our study enables a way to connect these biodiversity benefits to improve public health.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…2). These links are exemplified in modelling of global emerging infectious disease (EID) data from 1950 to 2008, which indicated a positive association between the number of threatened mammal and bird species and outbreaks of zoonoses in the AsiaPacific region (Morand et al 2014). If environmental threats trigger a stress response in wildlife that precipitates infectious disease, there may be consequences for the transmission of zoonotic EID (Fig.…”
Section: (1) Climate Changementioning
confidence: 97%
“…This posture leads to considering both public health and environmental themes-such as climate change [28,29] or the loss of biological diversity [30]-linked by epidemiological dynamics [31], as well as organizations operating from international to regional or local levels in these areas. Health governance in Southeast Asia, a hot spot for the emergence or reemergence of infectious diseases and biodiversity [32], is also based on political or legal texts (e.g.…”
Section: Actors and Competenciesmentioning
confidence: 99%