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. 2025 Jul 31:16:65-89.
doi: 10.2147/RRTM.S512767. eCollection 2025.

Proceedings from the Fourth Mesoamerican Symposium "Dr. Roberto Navarro López" on Emerging Zoonotic Disease and Arboviruses: Commenting Insights and Research Findings

Nadia A Fernández-Santos #  1   2 , Mario A Rodríguez-Pérez #  1 , Sofía Segovia-Mancillas #  1   3 , Luis L Rodríguez  4 , Sarah A Hamer  5 , Gabriel L Hamer  2 , Fabián Correa-Morales  6 , Susano Medina-Jaramillo  7 , Maria Gabriela Palacios-Mendoza  8 , Epigmenio Cruz-Aldán  9 , Gabriela Del Carmen Rodriguez-Dominguez  10 , Carlos H Gomez-Hernandez  10 , Arturo Larraga-Guillén  11 , Irene López González  11 , Luis M Rodríguez-Martínez  12 , Aldo I Ortega-Morales  13 , Ma Isabel Salazar  14 , Héctor Enrique Valdez-Gómez  11 , Miguel A Márquez Ruiz  15 , Maria J Perteguer  16 , Benjamín Gastón Gómez-Gordillo  17 , Jesús A Aguilar-Durán  1 , Ingeborg D Becker Fauser  18 , Scott C Weaver  19 , Michael J Turell  20 , Laura D Kramer #  21 , Jose Guillermo Estrada-Franco #  1
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Proceedings from the Fourth Mesoamerican Symposium "Dr. Roberto Navarro López" on Emerging Zoonotic Disease and Arboviruses: Commenting Insights and Research Findings

Nadia A Fernández-Santos et al. Res Rep Trop Med. .

Abstract

Zoonotic pathogens such as arboviruses, arenaviruses, filoviruses, coronaviruses, highly pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) viruses, vesiculoviruses, and many others are emerging and reemerging worldwide, jeopardizing global veterinary and public health. Parasitic diseases such as visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma cruzi), myiasis, and river blindness (Onchocerca volvulus) are also paramount for public health in the Americas and elsewhere. In the fall 2024, a group of experts convened in Chiapas, Mexico, for the Fourth Mesoamerican Symposium "Dr. Roberto Navarro López" on Arboviruses and Emerging Zoonotic Diseases. Here, we highlight the importance of some zoonotic pathogens and parasites affecting human health that are being impacted by anthropogenic activities. In this context, there are drivers such as changes in climate and landscape transformations, unsound agricultural practices, and wildlife niche replacement delivering numerous opportunities for zoonotic pathogens to emerge and threaten human health and food security.

Keywords: arboviruses; emerging diseases; re-emerging diseases; symposium; training course; zoonosis.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr. Mario Alberto Rodriguez-Perez is the Chief Editor of the editing board of Research and Reports in Tropical Medicine (RRTM). The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.

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