The ongoing crises in China illustrate that the assessment of epidemics in isolation is no longer sufficient

Stoffel, Carla; Schuppers, Manon; Buholzer, Patrik; Muñoz, Violeta; Lechner, Isabel; Sperling, Ulrich; Küker, Susanne; Nardi, Marco De

doi:10.1111/tbed.13536

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“…From 2010 to 2023, mainland China faced significant public health challenges, including COVID-19, African swine fever, and avian influenza. These challenges impacted human and animal behavior patterns ( Barrett et al., 2015 ; Watts et al., 2017 ; Jalloh et al., 2020 ) and influenced livestock practices ( Taylor et al., 2020 ; Brown et al., 2021 ; Liu et al., 2021 ; Petrovan et al., 2021 ), thereby highlighting the importance of researching T. gondii dynamics and understanding zoonotic diseases more broadly ( Stoffel et al., 2020 ). Against this backdrop, gaining a deeper understanding of the epidemiology of T. gondii is imperative, especially in a country like China with a vast and diverse food-animal sector.…”

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Deciphering the epidemiological dynamics: Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in mainland China’s food animals, 2010-2023

Yang,

Yuan,

Nie

et al. 2024

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

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BackgroundToxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a significant protozoan pathogen among food animals. Despite the threat to public health by T. gondii infections, there’s limited understanding of its seroprevalence and trends in food animals across mainland China. This study aimed to estimate the seroprevalence of T. gondii infections among swine, sheep, goats, chickens, and cattle in mainland China from 2010 to 2023.MethodsWe searched cross-sectional studies published between 2010 and 2023 that reported the prevalence of T. gondii in food animals from databases including PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, China Biology Medicine Disc (CBM), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang data, and the China Science and Technology Journal Database (CQVIP). We performed subgroup analyses to explore the impact of different factors on the seroprevalence of T. gondii. Pooled estimates of T. gondii seroprevalence were calculated with a random-effects model.ResultsAn analysis of 184 studies involving 211985 animals revealed a T. gondii overall seroprevalence of 15.3% (95% CI: 13.1-17.8). Although the seroprevalence of food animals across mainland China was relatively stable from 2010 to 2023, notable variations were observed across different animal types and regions (P < 0.01), along with changes in geographical distribution. Sample type, detection method, animal age, and history of abortion were identified as key risk factors for T. gondii seroprevalence.ConclusionThe study conducted a meta-analysis on the seroprevalence of T. gondii in mainland China’s Food Animals from 2010 to 2023, and identified key risk factors. These findings advance our understanding of T. gondii infection dynamics, offering critical insights for developing control strategies and guiding public health policies.

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Deciphering the epidemiological dynamics: Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in mainland China’s food animals, 2010-2023

Yang,

Yuan,

Nie

et al. 2024

Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol.

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“…Recent, unprecedented pandemics such as COVID‐19 and African swine fever (ASF) have necessitated extraordinary outbreak responses and fuelled calls for a ‘One Health’ (OH) approach to tackling these global health issues (Stoffel et al., 2020). Although OH describes a rich framework of transdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative methods, it arguably lacks a vision of a set of rich outcomes—health, social, economic and environmental outcomes—whose interdependence is similarly acknowledged (dos S. Ribeiro, van de Burgwal, & Regeer, 2019).…”

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One Health needs a vision beyond zoonoses

Villanueva‐Cabezas

Rajkhowa

Campbell

2020

Transbound. Emerg. Dis.

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Summary The unprecedented pandemic events that currently affect animals and humans have fueled calls for One Health action. We argue that the One Health framework must be accompanied by ‘rich outcomes’ to avoid a reductionist One Health focus on zoonotic pathogens, that forgoes the benefits of the framework. We propose that the United Nation’s sustainable development goals provide an adequate multidimensional set of targets that can help researchers and policymakers contextualise emerging diseases, and guide One Health long‐term solutions that are equitable, efficacious, and sustainable.

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“…is results in targeting specific geographic areas and diseases after their emergence. According to Stoffel et al [11], assessing ID outbreaks in isolation is no longer sufficient in our interconnected world. e individual reactive nature of investigations and surveillance programs targeting specific diseases [12], pathogens [13], reservoirs [14], and territorial diversion of attention [15] on different perspectives would most likely render the world more vulnerable to simultaneous outbreaks.…”

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Reviewing the Past, Present, and Future Risks of Pathogens in Ghana and What This Means for Rethinking Infectious Disease Surveillance for Sub-Saharan Africa

Mahama

Kabo-bah

Blanford

et al. 2022

Journal of Tropical Medicine

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The current epidemiological transition makes us wonder how the parallel of infectious diseases (IDs) might be at the end of each passing year. Yet, the surveillance of these IDs continues to focus on high-profile diseases of public health importance without keeping track of the broad spectrum of the IDs we face. Here, we presented the prevalence of the broad spectrum of IDs in Ghana. Data from the annual reports on Gold Coast now Ghana, Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network (GIDEON), and the District Health Information Management System II (DHIMS2) databases were examined for records of ID prevalence in Ghana. Using the IDs from these databases, the paper assessed the epidemiological transition, pathogen-host interactions, spatiotemporal distribution, transmission routes, and their potential areas of impact in Ghana. The topmost ID recorded in health facilities in Ghana transitioned from yaws in the 1890s to malaria in the 1950s through 2020. We then presented the hosts of a pathogen and the pathogens of a host, the administrative districts where a pathogen was found, and the pathogens found in each district of Ghana. The highest modes of transmission routes were through direct contact for bacteria and airborne or droplet-borne for viral pathogens. From GIDEON, 226 IDs were identified as endemic or potentially endemic in Ghana, with 42% cited in peer-reviewed articles from 2000 to 2020. From the extent of risk of endemic or potentially endemic IDs, Ghana faces a high risk of ID burden that we should be mindful of their changing patterns and should keep track of the state of each of them.

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The ongoing crises in China illustrate that the assessment of epidemics in isolation is no longer sufficient

Cited by 8 publications

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Deciphering the epidemiological dynamics: Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in mainland China’s food animals, 2010-2023

Deciphering the epidemiological dynamics: Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in mainland China’s food animals, 2010-2023

One Health needs a vision beyond zoonoses

Reviewing the Past, Present, and Future Risks of Pathogens in Ghana and What This Means for Rethinking Infectious Disease Surveillance for Sub-Saharan Africa

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