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Epidemiology and Public Health Human and Animal Health Unit

Explore the cooperative potential between human and animal health to strengthen health systems and investigate the emergence of Ebola in West Africa. Discover the link between habitat changes, industrial farming, and social shifts impacting outbreaks.

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Epidemiology and Public Health Human and Animal Health Unit

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  1. Epidemiology and Public HealthHuman and Animal Health Unit Epidemiology of Ebola in West Africa: Jakob Zinsstag Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

  2. Formenty et al. (1999). Human Infection Due Ebola Virus, Subtype Côte d’Ivoire: Clinical and Biologic Presentation. Journal of Infectious Diseases,179 Suppl. 1 S48-53.

  3. Zinsstag et al. (2005) Potential of cooperation between human and animal health to strengthen health systems. Lancet; 366: 2142-45

  4. Formenty et al. (1999) Ebola Virus Outbreak among Wild Chimpanzees Living in a Rain Forest of Côte d’Ivoire. Journal of Infectious Diseases ;179 Suppl 1: 120-126 November 1994: ~8 dead chimpanzees in the Taï Forest National Park, point-source Epidemic (meat consumption of smaller monkeys suspected (Cercopithecus)), earlier epidemic likely in 1992. Chimpanzees cannot be a reservoir

  5. Pigott et al. (2014) Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa. eLIFE, 3:e04395 Reservoir ecosystem: Tropical rain forest Fruitbats Humans Wildlife: i.e. Chimpanzees

  6. The social-ecologicalsystemsdynamicsof Ebola in West Africa • Presumptiveunderlyingmechanismsoftheemergenceof Ebola • Changes in the agro-ecosystemfromsubsistencefarmingtoincreasingly • industrializedfarming Habitat changeoffruitbatsbyindustrialized • agro-forestrylikeoilpalmproduction. • Socialchangetowards a proletarizationoffarmersbecomingoilpalmfruitpickers Wallace et al. (2014) Did Ebola Emerge in West Africa by a policy-driven phase change in agroecology ? Environment and Planning A 2014; volume 46(11) 2533-2542

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