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Journal Article
Impacts of environmental and socio-economic factors on emergence and epidemic potential of Ebola in Africa
2019
Overview
Recent outbreaks of animal-borne emerging infectious diseases have likely been precipitated by a complex interplay of changing ecological, epidemiological and socio-economic factors. Here, we develop modelling methods that capture elements of each of these factors, to predict the risk of Ebola virus disease (EVD) across time and space. Our modelling results match previously-observed outbreak patterns with high accuracy, and suggest further outbreaks could occur across most of West and Central Africa. Trends in the underlying drivers of EVD risk suggest a 1.75 to 3.2-fold increase in the endemic rate of animal-human viral spill-overs in Africa by 2070, given current modes of healthcare intervention. Future global change scenarios with higher human population growth and lower rates of socio-economic development yield a 1.63-fold higher likelihood of epidemics occurring as a result of spill-over events. Our modelling framework can be used to target interventions designed to reduce epidemic risk for many zoonotic diseases.
The capacity to predict zoonotic disease outbreaks is hampered by data availability and complex relationships between humans, wildlife, and the environment. Here the authors present a modelling framework that identifies potential high-risk locations for Ebola outbreaks under various climatic, demographic, and land use scenarios.
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK,Nature Publishing Group,Nature Portfolio
Subject
/ Animals
/ Communicable Diseases, Emerging - epidemiology
/ Communicable Diseases, Emerging - virology
/ Disease Outbreaks - prevention & control
/ Epidemics - prevention & control
/ Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - epidemiology
/ Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola - virology
/ Humanities and Social Sciences
/ Humans
/ Risk
/ Science
/ Zoonoses
