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. 2020 Nov 13:371:m3389.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.m3389.

Ecosystem perspectives are needed to manage zoonotic risks in a changing climate

Rory Gibb  1 , Lydia H V Franklinos  1   2 , David W Redding  1   3 , Kate E Jones  4   3
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Ecosystem perspectives are needed to manage zoonotic risks in a changing climate

Rory Gibb et al. BMJ. .

Abstract

Better understanding of how environmental changes affect pathogens, hosts, and disease vectors can help prevent and respond to zoonoses, write Rory Gibb and colleagues

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Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no relevant interests to declare.

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Fig 1
Effects of global environmental change on zoonotic disease hazards and risks. Inset boxes highlight key socioecological processes through which climate and land use changes can affect hazard, exposure, and vulnerability. For example, zoonotic hazard (underlying potential for pathogen spillover) is a consequence of changes in reservoir host and vector distributions, abundance, and host-pathogen dynamics (example shown for a hypothetical rodent species)
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