tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Acta Trop. 2013 Jul 29. pii: S0001-706X(13)00189-7. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.07.009. [Epub ahead of print]
Interplay between environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty: case studies in China.
Yang GJ, Utzinger J, Zhou XN.
Source
Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214064, People's Republic of China; Key Laboratory on Control Technology for Parasitic Diseases, Ministry of Health, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214064, People's Republic of China; School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Satin, Hong Kong.
Abstract
Changes in the natural environment and agricultural systems induced by economic and industrial development, including population dynamics (growth, urbanization, migration), are major causes resulting in the persistence, emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in developing countries. In the face of rapid demographic, economic and social transformations, China is undergoing unprecedented environmental and agricultural change. We review emerging and re-emerging diseases such as schistosomiasis, dengue, avian influenza, angiostrogyliasis and soil-transmitted helminths that have occurred in China due to environmental and agricultural change. This commentary highlights the research priorities and the response strategies, namely mitigation and adaptation, undertaken to eliminate the resurgence of those infectious diseases.
Copyright ? 2013. Published by Elsevier B.V.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23906612
Interplay between environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty: case studies in China.
Yang GJ, Utzinger J, Zhou XN.
Source
Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214064, People's Republic of China; Key Laboratory on Control Technology for Parasitic Diseases, Ministry of Health, Wuxi, Jiangsu 214064, People's Republic of China; School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Satin, Hong Kong.
Abstract
Changes in the natural environment and agricultural systems induced by economic and industrial development, including population dynamics (growth, urbanization, migration), are major causes resulting in the persistence, emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in developing countries. In the face of rapid demographic, economic and social transformations, China is undergoing unprecedented environmental and agricultural change. We review emerging and re-emerging diseases such as schistosomiasis, dengue, avian influenza, angiostrogyliasis and soil-transmitted helminths that have occurred in China due to environmental and agricultural change. This commentary highlights the research priorities and the response strategies, namely mitigation and adaptation, undertaken to eliminate the resurgence of those infectious diseases.
Copyright ? 2013. Published by Elsevier B.V.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23906612