Emerging infectious disease: an underappreciated area of strategic concern for food security.

摘要: Emerging infectious diseases (EID) increasingly threaten global food security and public health. Despite technological breakthroughs, we are losing the battle with (re)emerging as treatment costs production losses rise. A horizon scan of crops, livestock, seafood food-borne illness suggests these unsustainable. The paradigm coevolution between pathogens particular hosts teaches that emerging occur only when evolve specific capacities allow them to move new hosts. EID ought be rare unpredictable, so crisis response is best can do. Alternatively, Stockholm Paradigm world full susceptible but unexposed could infect, given opportunity. Global climate change, globalized trade travel, urbanization, land use changes (often associated biodiversity loss) increase those opportunities, making frequent. We can, however, anticipate their arrival in locations behavior once they have arrived. "find before find us," mitigating impacts. DAMA (Document, Assess, Monitor, Act) protocol alters current reactive stance embodies proactive solutions mitigate impacts EID, extending human material resources buying time for development vaccinations, medications, control measures.