One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?

Infectious diseases affect people, domestic animals and wildlife alike, with many pathogens being able to infect multiple species. Fifty years ago, following the wide-scale manufacture and use of antibiotics and vaccines, it seemed that the battle against infections was being won for the human population. Since then, however, and in addition to increasing antimicrobial resistance among bacterial pathogens, there has been an increase in the emergence of, mostly viral, zoonotic diseases from wildlife, sometimes causing fatal outbreaks of epidemic proportions. Concurrently, infectious disease has been identified as an increasing threat to wildlife conservation. A synthesis published in 2000 showed common…

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  United States Agency for International Development

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  Alborada Trust
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  Royal Society
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  Sight Research UK

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  European Commission

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  Wolfson Foundation
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  Department for International Development
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  Seventh Framework Programme
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  Economic and Social Research Council

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  Natural Environment Research Council

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