Zoonotic diseases and their drivers in Africa

This chapter focuses on the link between livestock and zoonoses in sub-Saharan Africa. The role of poverty, keeping livestock beside or inside houses, low level of agricultural intensification and input use, and eating bushmeat in the emergence and persistence of zoonoses is described. The exceptional vulnerability to a deadly trifecta of climate change, high rates of demographic increase and uncontrolled disease is discussed.

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Main Authors: Grace, Delia, Bett, Bernard K.
Format: Book Chapter biblioteca
Language:English
Published: CAB International 2014-01
Subjects:zoonoses,
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/51352
https://www.cabi.org/environmentalimpact/ebook/20143328445
https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780642659.0228
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