Early Detection of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases with Animal Morbidity and Mortality Monitoring
Early Detection of Emerging Zoonotic Diseases with Animal Morbidity and Mortality Monitoring
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DOI：
10.1007/s10393-014-0988-x
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Marra, Peter P.
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作者：
Bisson, Isabelle-Anne;Ssebide, Benard J.;Marra, Peter P.
过去 60 年来，动物与人之间传播的疾病占人类新发传染病的 50% 以上，并且近几个月持续出现。然而，公共卫生和动物疾病监测项目继续独立运作。在这里，我们评估了最近出现的人畜共患病原体（n = 143）是否已知会导致其动物宿主发病或死亡，如果是的话，它们是否是在动物发病/死亡事件中首次检测到的。我们发现，尽管患病或死亡的动物通常与这些病原体有关（52%），但只有 9% 的动物发病或死亡事件是在人类疾病迹象之前或同时发生的。我们建议动物发病率和死亡率报告计划将改善检测，并应成为人畜共患疾病早期预警系统的重要组成部分。通过广泛使用低成本技术，这样的计划可以吸引公众和专业人士，并且很容易进行测试并进一步纳入公共卫生官员监测工作的一部分。
Diseases transmitted between animals and people have made up more than 50% of emerging infectious diseases in humans over the last 60 years and have continued to arise in recent months. Yet, public health and animal disease surveillance programs continue to operate independently. Here, we assessed whether recent emerging zoonotic pathogens (n = 143) are known to cause morbidity or mortality in their animal host and if so, whether they were first detected with an animal morbidity/mortality event. We show that although sick or dead animals are often associated with these pathogens (52%), only 9% were first detected from an animal morbidity or mortality event prior to or concurrent with signs of illness in humans. We propose that an animal morbidity and mortality reporting program will improve detection and should be an essential component of early warning systems for zoonotic diseases. With the use of widespread low-cost technology, such a program could engage both the public and professionals and be easily tested and further incorporated as part of surveillance efforts by public health officials.