[The concept of emerging viral diseases: what risk for Reunion Island?]

Bull Soc Pathol Exot. 2013 Aug;106(3):170-5. doi: 10.1007/s13149-013-0294-9. Epub 2013 Jun 14.
[Article in French]

Abstract

In Reunion Island, the risk of emerging infectious diseases lies mainly in several viral zoonoses: West Nile fever, Sindbis virus, Nipah virus, Wesselsbron virus, Rift Valley fever and Japanese encephalitis. There morbidity and consequences are more or less important but they all have a non-negligible epidemic potential, so they have to be monitored. Indeed, the struggle against these emerging infectious diseases requires an early detection of the cases, thus a surveillance system capable of detecting them as early as possible, thanks to a real international network of information, warning and prevention.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / epidemiology*
  • Communicable Diseases, Emerging / etiology
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Reunion / epidemiology
  • Risk
  • Virus Diseases / epidemiology*
  • Zoonoses / epidemiology*
  • Zoonoses / etiology