Controlling emerging zoonoses at the animal-human interface

Abstract

For many emerging or re-emerging pathogens, cases in humans arise from a mixture of introductions (via zoonotic spillover from animal reservoirs or geographic spillover from endemic regions) and secondary human-to-human transmission. Interventions aiming to reduce incidence of these infections can be focused on preventing spillover or reducing human-to-human transmission, or sometimes both at once, and typically are governed by resource constraints that require policymakers to make choices. Despite increasing emphasis on using mathematical models to inform disease control policies, little attention has been paid to guiding rational disease control at the animal-human interface.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 18, 2020
Source ID
10.1186/s42522-020-00024-5

Entities

People

  • Anne W. Rimoin
  • James O. Lloyd-Smith
  • Nicole A. Hoff
  • Riley O Mummah

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • National Science Foundation
  • Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

Tags

Readers

  • Infectious Disease/Epidemiology
  • Systems Analysis and Design