Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter

Despite increasing control measures, numerous parasitic and infectious diseases are emerging, re-emerging or causing recurrent outbreaks particularly in Asia and the Pacific region, a hot spot of both infectious disease emergence and biodiversity at risk. We investigate how biodiversity affects th...

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Main Authors: Serge, Morand, Sathaporn, Jittapalapong, Yupin, Suputtamongkol, Mohd Tajuddin, Abdullah, Tan Boon, Huan
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Language:English
Published: PLOS 2014
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author Serge, Morand
Sathaporn, Jittapalapong
Yupin, Suputtamongkol
Mohd Tajuddin, Abdullah
Tan Boon, Huan
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Sathaporn, Jittapalapong
Yupin, Suputtamongkol
Mohd Tajuddin, Abdullah
Tan Boon, Huan
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description Despite increasing control measures, numerous parasitic and infectious diseases are emerging, re-emerging or causing recurrent outbreaks particularly in Asia and the Pacific region, a hot spot of both infectious disease emergence and biodiversity at risk. We investigate how biodiversity affects the distribution of infectious diseases and their outbreaks in this region, taking into account socio-economics (population size, GDP, public health expenditure), geography (latitude and nation size), climate (precipitation, temperature) and biodiversity (bird and mammal species richness, forest cover, mammal and bird species at threat). We show, among countries, that the overall richness of infectious diseases is positively correlated with the richness of birds and mammals, but the number of zoonotic disease outbreaks is positively correlated with the number of threatened mammal and bird species and the number of vector-borne disease outbreaks is negatively correlated with forest cover. These results suggest that, among countries, biodiversity is a source of pathogens, but also that the loss of biodiversity or its regulation, as measured by forest cover or threatened species, seems to be associated with an increase in zoonotic and vector-borne disease outbreaks.
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spelling unimas-15732021-06-29T16:47:21Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1573/ Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter Serge, Morand Sathaporn, Jittapalapong Yupin, Suputtamongkol Mohd Tajuddin, Abdullah Tan Boon, Huan GE Environmental Sciences QR Microbiology Despite increasing control measures, numerous parasitic and infectious diseases are emerging, re-emerging or causing recurrent outbreaks particularly in Asia and the Pacific region, a hot spot of both infectious disease emergence and biodiversity at risk. We investigate how biodiversity affects the distribution of infectious diseases and their outbreaks in this region, taking into account socio-economics (population size, GDP, public health expenditure), geography (latitude and nation size), climate (precipitation, temperature) and biodiversity (bird and mammal species richness, forest cover, mammal and bird species at threat). We show, among countries, that the overall richness of infectious diseases is positively correlated with the richness of birds and mammals, but the number of zoonotic disease outbreaks is positively correlated with the number of threatened mammal and bird species and the number of vector-borne disease outbreaks is negatively correlated with forest cover. These results suggest that, among countries, biodiversity is a source of pathogens, but also that the loss of biodiversity or its regulation, as measured by forest cover or threatened species, seems to be associated with an increase in zoonotic and vector-borne disease outbreaks. PLOS 2014 Article NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1573/1/Serge.pdf Serge, Morand and Sathaporn, Jittapalapong and Yupin, Suputtamongkol and Mohd Tajuddin, Abdullah and Tan Boon, Huan (2014) Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter. PLOS ONE, 9 (2). ISSN 1932-6203 http://10.1371/journal.pone.0090032
spellingShingle GE Environmental Sciences
QR Microbiology
Serge, Morand
Sathaporn, Jittapalapong
Yupin, Suputtamongkol
Mohd Tajuddin, Abdullah
Tan Boon, Huan
Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter
title Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter
title_full Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter
title_fullStr Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter
title_full_unstemmed Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter
title_short Infectious Diseases and Their Outbreaks in Asia-Pacific: Biodiversity and Its Regulation Loss Matter
title_sort infectious diseases and their outbreaks in asia-pacific: biodiversity and its regulation loss matter
topic GE Environmental Sciences
QR Microbiology
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1573/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1573/1/Serge.pdf