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Category: General Interest; Environmental Microbiology
Public Health Disease Surveillance Networks, Page 1 of 2
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Zoonotic infections are important sources of human disease. The great majority of emerging infections identified to date (including HIV, Ebola virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS], Nipah virus, and enteropathogenic Escherichia coli) are zoonotic ( 48 ). These diseases originate as natural infections of other species that are given opportunities to cross the animal-human interface and come in contact with humans ( 1 – 4 , 49 ). Wildlife constitutes a particularly important source ( 2 ).
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