A wide range of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases remain a major threat to human health and affect global economic development. Since 2000, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases such as SARS, MERS, Ebola viral disease, Zika virus disease, and COVID-19 have killed millions of people across the world and caused trillions in economic losses. Among these communicable diseases, there are more than 200 types of zoonoses, which not only harm human health but also affect animal husbandry development, resulting in enormous social and economic burdens in the world. Notably, COVID-19, an emerging zoonosis that was firstly reported in China, before spreading rapidly across the world. To date, more than 130 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19, and approximately 3 million deaths occur in the world. The pandemic of COVID-19 makes zoonoses more widely recognized throughout the world and reminds one of the long-lasting challenges of human and public health.
Given the profound impact of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases on global health and economic stability, Zoonoses publishes this special issue to address the ongoing challenges posed by these threats, particularly zoonotic diseases, and to advance research aimed at their prevention and control.
Editors
| Xiaoping Dong, MD, PhD, Professor Chief Expert of Virology, Chinese Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Beijing, China | Lynn Soong, MD, PhD, Professor Departments of Microbiology & Immunology and Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, TX, USA | Hua Li, Professor School of Pharmacy, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
Published Articles
Kai Zhang, Ning Jiang, Naiwen Zhang, Liying Yu, Xiaoyu Sang, 3 more… (2023)
Yue-Zhang Wu, Jing-Xing Wu, Xue-Hua Yang, Shan Lu, Kang Xiao, 5 more… (2023)
A Marked Decline in Taenia solium Taeniasis and Cysticercosis Infections in China: Possible Reasons from the Ecological Determinants Perspective
Junqiang Li, Feifei Xu, Yuancai Chen, Md Robiul Karim, Yilin Wang, 5 more… (2023)
Novel Clinical and Genomic Signatures of the 2022 Monkeypox Virus
Meng-Xu Sun, Xing-Yao Huang, Cheng-Feng Qin (2023)
One Health Approach for the Control of Zoonotic Diseases
Gashaw Adane Erkyihun, Meseret Bekele Alemayehu (2022)
Microbial Communities in the Lungs of Bats in China
Na Zhao, Hongyu Ren, Yan Jiang, Yinan Li, Xingxing Lian, 1 more… (2022)
Evidence of the Efficacy and the Effectiveness of First Generation COVID-19 Vaccines in Clinical Trials and Real-world Studies
Jingxin Li, Zhuopei Li, Yawen Zhu, Li Zhou, Fengcai Zhu (2022)
Effectiveness of Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines During a Delta Variant Outbreak in Hunan Province, China: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Xuemei Yan, Zhihui Dai, Qianhui Wu, Xiaolei Wang, Yan Wang, 6 more… (2022)
Genotype 5 Japanese Encephalitis Virus—Old Genotype, New Threat
Weijia Zhang, Chongxiao Xu, Kai Nie, Huanyu Wang (2022)
Protective Immunity and Immunopathology in Ehrlichiosis
Nahed Ismail, Aditya Sharma, Lynn Soong, David H. Walker (2022)
The Novel Monkeypox Outbreak: What Should We Know and Reflect On?
Xiaoning Liu, Xiao Jiang, Zheng Zhu, Liqin Sun, Hongzhou Lu (2022)
Current Understanding of Extracellular Vesicle Homing/Tropism
Mariola J. Edelmann, Peter E. Kima (2022)
The Animal Origin of Major Human Infectious Diseases: What Can Past Epidemics Teach Us About Preventing the Next Pandemic?
Guha Dharmarajan, Ruiyun Li, Emmanuel Chanda, Katharine R. Dean, Rodolfo Dirzo, 7 more… (2022)
Emerging and Re-emerging Zoonoses are Major and Global Challenges for Public Health
Xiaoping Dong, Lynn Soong (2021)
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