Humans and animals: increasing contacts, increasing infections.
Changes in the zoonotic infections that affect Americans stem primarily from shifting patterns of animal-human interaction, the crossover of species-specific organisms, and the importation or identification of new organisms. Although Lyme disease is not, strictly speaking, zoonotic, it leads off this review by virtue of its epidemic or near-epidemic prevalence in many areas.
Sanford
J P
JP
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda.
D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease; D009784:Occupational Diseases; D014481:United States; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000635:transmission