A Unified Framework for the Infection Dynamics of Zoonotic Spillover and Spread.

• Main Authors: Giovanni Lo Iacono (Author), Andrew A Cunningham (Author), Elisabeth Fichet-Calvet (Author), Robert F Garry (Author), Donald S Grant (Author), Melissa Leach (Author), Lina M Moses (Author), Gordon Nichols (Author), John S Schieffelin (Author), Jeffrey G Shaffer (Author), Colleen T Webb (Author), James L N Wood (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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A considerable amount of disease is transmitted from animals to humans and many of these zoonoses are neglected tropical diseases. As outbreaks of SARS, avian influenza and Ebola have demonstrated, however, zoonotic diseases are serious threats to global public health and are not just problems confi...