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Interplay between environment, agriculture and infectious diseases of poverty: case studies in China.

  • Yang GJ Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Wuxi 214064, People's Republic of China; Key Laboratory on Control Technology for Parasitic Diseases, Ministry of Health, Wuxi 214064, People's Republic of China; School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Satin, Hong Kong.
  • Utzinger J Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, P.O. Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland; University of Basel, P.O. Box, CH-4003 Basel, Switzerland.
  • Zhou XN National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China; Key Laboratory on Biology of Parasite and Vector, Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China; WHO Collaborating Center for Malaria, Schistosomiasis and Filariasis, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: xiaonongzhou1962@gmail.com.
  • 2013-08-03
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  • Acta tropica. - 2015
Agriculture
Case study
Emerging diseases
Environment
Infectious diseases of poverty
People's Republic of China
Agriculture
Animals
Birds
China
Communicable Diseases
Communicable Diseases, Emerging
Demography
Dengue
Developing Countries
Environment
Helminthiasis
Humans
Influenza in Birds
Population Dynamics
Poverty
Schistosomiasis
Strongylida Infections
Urbanization
English Changes in the natural environment and agricultural systems induced by economic and industrial development, including population dynamics (growth, urbanization, migration), are major causes resulting in the persistence, emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases in developing countries. In the face of rapid demographic, economic and social transformations, the People's Republic of China (P.R. China) is undergoing unprecedented environmental and agricultural change. We review emerging and re-emerging diseases such as schistosomiasis, dengue, avian influenza, angiostrongyliasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis that have occurred in P.R. China due to environmental and agricultural change. This commentary highlights the research priorities and the response strategies, namely mitigation and adaptation, undertaken to eliminate the resurgence of those infectious diseases.
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