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| Ecological Barrier Deterioration Driven by Human Activities Poses Fatal Threats to Public Health due to Emerging Infectious Diseases | |
Zhang, Dayi; Yang, Yunfeng; Li, Miao; Lu, Yun; Liu, Yi ; Jiang, Jingkun; Liu, Ruiping; Liu, Jianguo; Huang, Xia; Li, Guanghe; Qu, Jiuhui
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| 2022-03 | |
| Source Publication | ENGINEERING
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| ISSN | 2095-8099 |
| Volume | 10Issue:0Pages:155-166 |
| Abstract | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and concerns about several other pandemics in the 21st century have attracted extensive global attention. These emerging infectious diseases threaten global public health and raise urgent studies on unraveling the underlying mechanisms of their transmission from animals to humans. Although numerous works have intensively discussed the cross-species and endemic barriers to the occurrence and spread of emerging infectious diseases, both types of barriers play synergistic roles in wildlife habitats. Thus far, there is still a lack of a complete understanding of viral diffusion, migration, and transmission in ecosystems from a macro perspective. In this review, we conceptualize the ecological barrier that represents the combined effects of cross-species and endemic barriers for either the natural or intermediate hosts of viruses. We comprehensively discuss the key influential factors affecting the ecological barrier against viral transmission from virus hosts in their natural habitats into human society, including transmission routes, contact probability, contact frequency, and viral characteristics. Considering the significant impacts of human activities and global industrialization on the strength of the ecological barrier, ecological barrier deterioration driven by human activities is critically analyzed for potential mechanisms. Global climate change can trigger and expand the range of emerging infectious diseases, and human disturbances promote higher contact frequency and greater transmission possibility. In addition, globalization drives more transmission routes and produces new high-risk regions in city areas. This review aims to provide a new concept for and comprehensive evidence of the ecological barrier blocking the transmission and spread of emerging infectious diseases. It also offers new insights into potential strategies to protect the ecological barrier and reduce the wide-ranging risks of emerging infectious diseases to public health. (c) 2020 THE AUTHORS. Published by Elsevier LTD on behalf of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Higher Education Press Limited Company. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Department | 中国科学院饮用水科学与技术重点实验室 ; 中国科学院饮用水科学与技术重点实验室 |
| Keyword | WEST-NILE-VIRUS HEPATITIS-E VIRUS RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONAVIRUS A H1N1 VIRUS CLIMATE-CHANGE INFLUENZA-VIRUS MOUTH-DISEASE NIPAH VIRUS PATHOGEN SURVEILLANCE CHIKUNGUNYA VIRUS |
| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | https://ir.rcees.ac.cn/handle/311016/47841 |
| Collection | 中国科学院饮用水科学与技术重点实验室 |
| Affiliation | 1.Tsinghua Univ, Sch Environm, Beijing 100084, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Res Ctr Ecoenvironm Sci, Key Lab Drinking Water Sci & Technol, Beijing 100085, Peoples R China |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Dayi,Yang, Yunfeng,Li, Miao,et al. Ecological Barrier Deterioration Driven by Human Activities Poses Fatal Threats to Public Health due to Emerging Infectious Diseases[J]. ENGINEERING,2022,10(0):155-166. |
| APA | Zhang, Dayi.,Yang, Yunfeng.,Li, Miao.,Lu, Yun.,Liu, Yi.,...&Qu, Jiuhui.(2022).Ecological Barrier Deterioration Driven by Human Activities Poses Fatal Threats to Public Health due to Emerging Infectious Diseases.ENGINEERING,10(0),155-166. |
| MLA | Zhang, Dayi,et al."Ecological Barrier Deterioration Driven by Human Activities Poses Fatal Threats to Public Health due to Emerging Infectious Diseases".ENGINEERING 10.0(2022):155-166. |
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