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Animals are some of our best friends, and have been at our side for millennia. But they can also cause human infections and kick of new epidemics, and all the big pandemics in the recent years, including swine flu, MERS, HIV and Ebola have had an animal origin. Music: Lost Radiance - On The Planet Far Away (ver. 1) Sources: Websites – Rabies. World Health Organisation. https://www.who.int/rabies/about/en/ Origins of the 2014 Ebola epidemic. World Health Organisation. https://www.who.int/csr/disease/ebola/one-year-report/virus-origin/en/ 2014-2016 Ebola Outbreak in West Africa. Centre for Disease Control. https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/history/2014-2016-outbreak/index.html Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). World Health Organisation. https://www.who.int/emergencies/mers-cov/en/ Forget Ebola, Sars and Zika: ticks are the next global health threat. The Guardian Australia. https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/jan/25/forget-ebola-sars-and-zika-ticks-are-the-next-global-health-threat Publications – Drivers of Zoonotic Disease, from Sustaining Global Surveillance and Response to Emerging Zoonotic Diseases. National Research Council (US) Committee on Achieving Sustainable Global Capacity for Surveillance and Response to Emerging Diseases of Zoonotic Origin. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK215318/ Journal Articles – Wang LF & Crameri G. Emerging zoonotic viral diseases. Scientific and Technical Review of the Office International des Epizooties. 2014; 33 (2): 569 - 581 Allen, T, Murray KA, Zambrana – Torrelio, C, Morse SS, Rondinini C, Di Marco M, Breit N, Olival KJ & Daszak P. Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases. Nature Communications. 2017; 8: 1124 Feldmann H & Geisbert TW. Ebola haemorrhagic fever. Lancet 2011; 377: 849 – 62 Banik GR, Khandaker G & Rashid H. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus ‘‘MERS-CoV’’: Current Knowledge Gaps. Paediatric Respiratory Reviews. 2015; 16: 197 – 202 Ki, M. 2015 MERS outbreak in Korea: hospital-to-hospital transmission. Epidemiology and Health. 2015; 37
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