Esposito Michelle Marie, Turku Sara, Lehrfield Leora, Shoman Ayat
Department of Biology, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Staten Island, New York, NY 10314, USA.
Ph.D. Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10314, USA.
Animals (Basel). 2023 May 15;13(10):1646. doi: 10.3390/ani13101646.
As humans expand their territories across more and more regions of the planet, activities such as deforestation, urbanization, tourism, wildlife exploitation, and climate change can have drastic consequences for animal movements and animal-human interactions. These events, especially climate change, can also affect the arthropod vectors that are associated with the animals in these scenarios. As the COVID-19 pandemic and other various significant outbreaks throughout the centuries have demonstrated, when animal patterns and human interactions change, so does the exposure of humans to zoonotic pathogens potentially carried by wildlife. With approximately 60% of emerging human pathogens and around 75% of all emerging infectious diseases being categorized as zoonotic, it is of great importance to examine the impact of human activities on the prevalence and transmission of these infectious agents. A better understanding of the impact of human-related factors on zoonotic disease transmission and prevalence can help drive the preventative measures and containment policies necessary to improve public health.
随着人类在地球上越来越多的地区扩张领土，森林砍伐、城市化、旅游业、野生动物开发以及气候变化等活动可能会对动物的活动以及动物与人类的互动产生巨大影响。这些事件，尤其是气候变化，也会影响在这些情况下与动物相关的节肢动物媒介。正如新冠疫情以及几个世纪以来其他各种重大疫情所表明的那样，当动物活动模式和人类互动发生变化时，人类接触野生动物可能携带的人畜共患病原体的情况也会改变。大约60%的新发人类病原体以及约75%的所有新发传染病都被归类为人畜共患病，因此研究人类活动对这些传染源的流行和传播的影响至关重要。更好地了解与人类相关的因素对人畜共患病传播和流行的影响，有助于推动改善公众健康所需的预防措施和控制政策。
