Infectious Diseases and Zoonoses of Wild Marine Animals
A special issue of Animals (ISSN 2076-2615). This special issue belongs to the section "Wildlife".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 31666
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Interests: marine animals diseases; marine ecology; microbiology; zoonoses; wild aquatic animals
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Over the past few decades, there has been a global increase in reports of diseases affecting marine organisms of diverse taxa. Climate change is an additional pressure on marine ecosystems that are already subject to many anthropogenic disturbances, such as overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction. Environmental conditions play a crucial role not only in pathogen transmission between animals but also as risk factors for clinical disease occurrence. Dolphins, sea turtles, sharks and many other marine animals are all susceptible to infectious diseases and some of these pathogens can transmit diseases to humans. Marine zoonoses represent a public health problem. Numerous pathogens and many different transmission modes are involved, and many factors influence the epidemiology of the disease transmission. As mariculture production and the consumption of marine animals products increase, the possibility of contracting zoonotic infections from either handling or ingesting these products also increases. Outbreaks of infectious diseases in marine fish farms are often related to management factors, such as the pollution levels of the water, introducing non-naïve fish to the farms and high stocking density of animals, which can increase pathogens loads in the fish and as a result, the fish are more likely to transmit infection to humans. Surveillance, laboratory diagnostics, research, training and education are key elements in combating the upsurge of infectious agents and zoonoses in and from the sea.
Dr. Danny Morick
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Keywords
- marine wildlife
- Zoonoses
- public health
- transmission modes
- epidemiology
- Aquaculture
- Mariculture
- fish
- marine mammals
- sea turtles crustaceans
- infectious diseases
- virus
- bacteria
- parasites
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