Emerging Infectious Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases (translated: Spreading or New infectious diseases), infectious diseases are the people whose presence has increased in recent decades, or that are likely to occur in the near future.

This happens for various reasons:

Human activities contribute in many ways to the spread of new infectious diseases:

• When piercing and tattoos in the hepatitis C virus can be transmitted.
• When dehorning and vaccinating cattle bovine leukemia virus BLV was spread by disregard of hygiene rules.
• Deforestation in Venezuela led to a plague of mice, mice are likely reservoir for the Guanarito virus, the causative agent of a haemorrhagic fever.
• The use of antibiotics in livestock farming leads to the establishment of resistant strains.
• In the context of globalization means that pathogens more quickly from between the continents.

These novel infectious diseases are also expected: HIV, BSE, SARS, Ebola virus, Marburg virus, monkeypox.

The U.S. CDC publishes a magazine titled Emerging Infectious Diseases.