Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system
Summary: A debate has emerged over the potential socio-ecological drivers of wildlife-origin zoonotic disease outbreaks and emerging infectious disease (EID) events. This Review explores the extent to which the incidence of wildlife-origin infectious disease outbreaks, which are likely to include de...
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| author | Giulia I. Wegner Kris A. Murray Marco Springmann Adrian Muller Susanne H. Sokolow Karen Saylors David M. Morens |
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| description | Summary: A debate has emerged over the potential socio-ecological drivers of wildlife-origin zoonotic disease outbreaks and emerging infectious disease (EID) events. This Review explores the extent to which the incidence of wildlife-origin infectious disease outbreaks, which are likely to include devastating pandemics like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, may be linked to excessive and increasing rates of tropical deforestation for agricultural food production and wild meat hunting and trade, which are further related to contemporary ecological crises such as global warming and mass species extinction. Here we explore a set of precautionary responses to wildlife-origin zoonosis threat, including: (a) limiting human encroachment into tropical wildlands by promoting a global transition to diets low in livestock source foods; (b) containing tropical wild meat hunting and trade by curbing urban wild meat demand, while securing access for indigenous people and local communities in remote subsistence areas; and (c) improving biosecurity and other strategies to break zoonosis transmission pathways at the wildlife-human interface and along animal source food supply chains. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2c648ba656ac43ca9af769fd9dc12f0f2022-12-22T02:57:32ZengElsevierEClinicalMedicine2589-53702022-05-0147101386Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food systemGiulia I. Wegner0Kris A. Murray1Marco Springmann2Adrian Muller3Susanne H. Sokolow4Karen Saylors5David M. Morens6Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon OX13 5QL, UK; Corresponding author.MRC Unit the Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, Gambia; MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, UKOxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, 34 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD, UKDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH, Sonneggstrasse 33, Zürich 8092, Switzerland; Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Ackerstrasse 113, Frick 5070, SwitzerlandStanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, MC 4205, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-6150, USALabyrinth Global Health, 15th Ave NE, St Petersburg, FL 33704, USANational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USASummary: A debate has emerged over the potential socio-ecological drivers of wildlife-origin zoonotic disease outbreaks and emerging infectious disease (EID) events. This Review explores the extent to which the incidence of wildlife-origin infectious disease outbreaks, which are likely to include devastating pandemics like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, may be linked to excessive and increasing rates of tropical deforestation for agricultural food production and wild meat hunting and trade, which are further related to contemporary ecological crises such as global warming and mass species extinction. Here we explore a set of precautionary responses to wildlife-origin zoonosis threat, including: (a) limiting human encroachment into tropical wildlands by promoting a global transition to diets low in livestock source foods; (b) containing tropical wild meat hunting and trade by curbing urban wild meat demand, while securing access for indigenous people and local communities in remote subsistence areas; and (c) improving biosecurity and other strategies to break zoonosis transmission pathways at the wildlife-human interface and along animal source food supply chains.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702200116XEmerging infectious diseaseZoonosisGlobal food systemLivestockAgricultureDeforestation |
| spellingShingle | Giulia I. Wegner Kris A. Murray Marco Springmann Adrian Muller Susanne H. Sokolow Karen Saylors David M. Morens Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system EClinicalMedicine Emerging infectious disease Zoonosis Global food system Livestock Agriculture Deforestation |
| title | Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system |
| title_full | Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system |
| title_fullStr | Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system |
| title_full_unstemmed | Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system |
| title_short | Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system |
| title_sort | averting wildlife borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system |
| topic | Emerging infectious disease Zoonosis Global food system Livestock Agriculture Deforestation |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258953702200116X |
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