Global factors driving emerging infectious diseases: Impact on wildlife populations

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1149, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-3

  Aguirre, A Alonso ^a   Tabor, Gary M ^b  

^a ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation medicine; Ecological health; Emerging infectious disease; Extinction; Globalization; Habitat fragmentation; Sentinel species; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

BAT; BIODIVERSITY; BULLFROG; CHOLERA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEFORESTATION; DENGUE; DYSENTERY; ECOSYSTEM; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIC; FLOODING; FUNGAL DETECTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HANTAVIRUS; HEALTH HAZARD; HENDRA VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LYME DISEASE; MALARIA; MALNUTRITION; NATIONAL PARK; NIPAH VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PARAMYXOVIRUS; PIG FARMING; POLLUTANT; RAIN FOREST; RHABDOVIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SPECIES EXTINCTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 57849149644     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1428.052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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