Whence the next pandemic? The intersecting global geography of the animal-human interface, poor health systems and air transit centrality reveals conduits for high-impact spillover

© 2020 The Authors..

The health and economic impacts of infectious disease pandemics are catastrophic as most recently manifested by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The emerging infections that lead to substantive epidemics or pandemics are typically zoonoses that cross species boundaries at vulnerable points of animal-human interface. The sharing of space between wildlife and humans, and their domesticated animals, has dramatically increased in recent decades and is a key driver of pathogen spillover. Increasing animal-human interface has also occurred in concert with both increasing globalisation and failing health systems, resulting in a trifecta with dire implications for human and animal health. Nevertheless, to date we lack a geographical description of this trifecta that can be applied strategically to pandemic prevention. This investigation provides the first geographical quantification of the intersection of animal-human interfaces, poor human health system performance and global connectivity via the network of air travel. In so doing, this work provides a systematic, data-driven approach to classifying spillover hazard based on the distribution of animal-human interfaces while simultaneously identifying globally connected cities that are adjacent to these interfaces and which may facilitate global pathogen dissemination. We present this geography of high-impact spillover as a tool for developing targeted surveillance systems and improved health infrastructure in vulnerable areas that may present conduits for future pandemics.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - 11(2020) vom: 20. Dez., Seite 100177

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Walsh, Michael G [VerfasserIn]
Sawleshwarkar, Shailendra [VerfasserIn]
Hossain, Shah [VerfasserIn]
Mor, Siobhan M [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Anthropogenic pressure
Journal Article
Network analysis
Pandemics
Spillover
Wildlife-human interface
Zoonoses

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Date Revised 30.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

figshare: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12661184

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.onehlt.2020.100177

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM316219592