News on emerging and resurging zoonoses...Emerging and resurging zoonoses, with their sometimes dramatic medical and/or economic consequences, are becoming an increasing problem due to the intensification of human and animal movements, environmental changes, and the risk of bioterrorism. Veterinary surgeons play a key role in our improving understanding of these diseases, as over 70% of human infectious diseases have an animal reservoir. The origin of theses zoonoses may be food, e.g. infections caused by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli or Cryptosporidium parvum, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Others have emerged in immunocompromised patients. Some zoonoses are more frequent among people working in animal husbandry (leptospirosis, brucellosis, avian chlamydophilosis, porcine streptococcal infection, Nipah and Hendra virus infections, hantavirus infection)....
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