The spread of Zika and the potential for global arbovirus syndemics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15540255
AutoresM Singer (0000-0002-2040-4622, University of Connecticut, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen12
Número1
Páginas1-18
Fecha de publicación2016-09-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGlobal Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1744-1692 • E-ISSN: 1744-1706
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17441692.2016.1225112
PMID27590737
OpenAlexW2511045544
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas89

It is estimated that over a million people die each year from infectious diseases of zoonotic origin and hundreds of millions suffer from these pervasive threats to human well-being. In light of the emergent global concern over the Zika virus, evidence that it has not one but two competent mosquito vector species in the Aedes family, and that both can be co-infected with other pathogens including dengue and chikungunya, this paper examines research suggesting the prospect of significant twenty-first-century outbreaks of arbovirus syndemics. Uniting the concepts 'synergy' with 'epidemic', a syndemics approach recognises that diseases in a population occur neither independent of social and ecological conditions, nor in isolation from other diseases. Assessment of the potential for arbovirus syndemics entails a review of the human role in the global spread of Aedes mosquitoes, the socio-environmental conditions of Aedes diffusion, the increasing likelihood of co-transmission of arbovirus diseases, evidence of co-infection and concern about the adverse health effects of arbovirus syndemic interaction, and the need for an appropriate environment-sensitive framework for effective public health responses. Called Planetary Health, this emergent framework confronts conceptual, knowledge, and governance challenges created by the dramatic shifts in environments, climates, people, vectors, and pathogens in the world

Arbovirus · Arbovirus Infections · Biology · Chikungunya · Dengue fever · Environmental health · Geography · Population · Public health · Syndemic · Vector (molecular biology · Virus · Zika virus · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · Medicine · Mosquito-borne diseases and control · Zoonotic diseases and public health · Ecology · Virology