The World Health Organization recently launched a roadmap to address the urgent issue of the threat of animal-to-human diseases known as zoonosis, particularly neglected tropical diseases, as humans increasingly encroach on environments previously only inhabited by animals.
The consequences of this expansion are heightened by a changing climate, where climate-extremes are increasing in frequency, and resources once widely available continue to dwindle.
It's instigated drastic changes in existing ecosystems and altered the dynamics between hosts, organisms that transmit diseases (vectors) and infectious germs.
