Control of zoonotic diseases in Africa and Asia. The contribution of research to One Health

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https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00045

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zoonoses, disease control, animal health, public health, interdisciplinary research, integrated disease control, control methods, participatory approaches, environment, risk management, methodology, research, ecology, epidemiology, sociology, microbiology

Résumé

Zoonotic diseases cause 2.2 million deaths and 2.4 billion cases of human illness throughout the world. They are concentrated in lowand middle-income countries in Asia and Africa, but the whole world is at risk of a potential pandemic. To combat these diseases, the international organisations are promoting the One Health concept, which is aimed at jointly addressing human health, animal health and the environment. However, the implementation of this approach is encountering numerous technical, scientific and institutional difficulties. Research will facilitate this implementation. This is shown by the interdisciplinary research conducted in Africa and Asia, associating methods used in the fields of human health and animal health, as well as the different stakeholders within these sectors. The promising findings of this research are helping to define the content of the concept and prefigure the management of the One Health initiative.

Biographie de l'auteur

François Roger

François Roger is a veterinarian and epidemiologist at CIRAD, where he directs the AGIRs research unit (Animal and Integrated Risk Management, http://ur-agirs.cirad.fr). After several years working in sub-Saharan Africa and in Europe, he developed research projects in Southeast Asia and launched a regional network (GREASE) aimed at connecting the different health sectors.

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Abu Samra N., Thompson P. N., Jori F., Frean J., Poonsamy B., du Plessis D., Mogoye B. & Xiao L., 2012. Genetic Characterization of Cryptosporidium spp. in Diarrhoeic Children from Four Provinces in South Africa. Zoonoses and Public Health 60 (2): 154-159. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1863-2378.2012.01507.x

Goutard F., Ponsich A., Ly S., Holl D., Allal L., Dab W., Roger F., Stärk K.D.C., 2012. “One Health” approach to quantitatively compare human and animal surveillance systems for avian influenza H5N1 in Cambodia. International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE), Maastricht, Netherlands, 20-24 August 2012. Wageningen, Academic Publishers. http://agritrop.cirad.fr/567702/

Herbreteau V., Bordes F., Jittapalapong S., Supputamongkol Y., Morand S., 2012. Rodent-borne diseases in Thailand: targeting rodent carriers and risky habitats. Infection Ecology and Epidemiology 2 (1): 18637. https://doi.org/10.3402/iee.v2i0.18637

Maganga G.D., Bourgarel M., Ebang Ella G., Drexler J.-F., Gonzalez J.-P., Drosten C., Leroy E.M., 2011. Is Marburg virus enzootic in Gabon? Journal of Infectious Diseases 204 (3): S800-S803. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jir358

Peyre M., Zahhaf A., Figuié M., Binot A., Bonnet P., Goutard F., Roger F., 2011. Socio-economical evaluation of surveillance systems for emerging animal diseases: merging veterinary and public health issues. First International One Health Congress, Melbourne, Australia, February 14‐16 2011. EcoHealth 7 (Issue 1 Supplement): S8–S170. (Abstract 342, p. S50). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-010-0376-0

Ponsich A., Goutard F., Sorn S., Tarantola A., 2012. A 6-months descriptive study of dog bites in rural Cambodia. International Journal of Infectious Diseases 16 (1): e460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2012.05.662

Rith S., Netrabukkana P., Sorn S., Mumford E., Mey C., Holl D., Goutard F., Fenwick S., Robertson I., Roger F., Buchy P., 2012. Serologic evidence of human influenza virus infections in swine populations, Cambodia. Influenza Other Respiratory Viruses 7 (3): 271-279. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00382.x

Trevennec K., Leger L., Lyazrhi F., Baudon E., Cheung C.Y., Roger F., Sriyal Peiris. J.-M., Garcia J.-M., 2011. Transmission of pandemic influenza H1N1 (2009) in Vietnamese swine in 2009-2010. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses 6 (5): 348-355. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-2659.2011.00324.x

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2012-01-01

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Roger, F. (2012). Control of zoonotic diseases in Africa and Asia. The contribution of research to One Health. Perspective, (18), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.19182/agritrop/00045