Anna-Sofie Steensgaard Little is currently known about the exact outcome of climate change effects on schistosomiasis, a disease caused by a snail-borne blood fluke that affects more than 250 million people mainly in tropical and subtropical countries. Many different species of parasites and snail host are involved in the disease transmission, and the effects of…
Ms Sonia Tiedt1 1Imperial College, London, UK Over the last century, we have witnessed a dramatic rise in the emergence of zoonotic infectious diseases. Such events, especially when unexpected, can have devastating ramification for human and animal health, as well as economic and political stability. Geographic range shifts in particular have been responsible for some…
Dr David Redding1, Prof. Kate Jones1 1University College London, , United Kingdom Human pathogens caught from animals, termed zoonoses, are a major cause of disease burden throughout the world. A disproportionate burden, however, is experienced in poor human communities located in the tropics due, in part, to high pathogen richness and limited healthcare and veterinary…
Tomas Thierfelder Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Tomas.Thierfelder@slu.se Introduction: Climate change is considered to have a significant impact on the epidemiology of Arctic infectious diseases, that threatens Arctic societies by terms of socio-economy, culture, health, welfare, security, animal husbandry, and food supply (etc.). With arctic societies being generally dependent on husbandry animals, the…
MSc Camilla Berggren, Assoc prof Tomas Thierfelder, Professor Anders Koch, Professor Birgitta Evengård, PhD Anna Omazic 1Dept. of Energy & Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Uppsala, Sweden, 2Dept. of Energy & Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences , Uppsala, Sweden, 3Ilisimatusarfik, University of Greenland, Nuuk, Greenland, 4Dept. of Clinical Microbiology, Unit of Infection…
Dr Osama Ahmed Hassan Ahmed1 1 University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Rift Valley fever(RVF) is an emerging viral zoonosis with great impact on human and wide range of animal health. The disease has been recognized by the World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations among the most emerging zoonotic diseases…