Integrating environmental conservation and public health strategies to combat zoonotic disease emergence: a call to action from the Amazon rainforest

Esteban Ortiz-Prado; Justin Yeager; Jorge Vasconez-Gonzalez; Marco Culqui-Sánchez; Juan S Izquierdo-Condoy

doi:10.3389/fcimb.2024.1405472

Integrating environmental conservation and public health strategies to combat zoonotic disease emergence: a call to action from the Amazon rainforest

Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2024 Apr 24:14:1405472. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1405472. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Esteban Ortiz-Prado¹, Justin Yeager², Jorge Vasconez-Gonzalez¹, Marco Culqui-Sánchez³, Juan S Izquierdo-Condoy¹

Affiliations

¹ One Health Research Group, Universidad de Las Americas, Quito, Ecuador.
² Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Medio Ambiente y Salud (BIOMAS), Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencas Aplicadas, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito, Ecuador.
³ Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

No abstract available

Keywords: Amazon rainforest; environmental conservation; public health; strategies; zoonotic diseases.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Brazil / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging* / epidemiology
Communicable Diseases, Emerging* / prevention & control
Conservation of Natural Resources*
Humans
Public Health*
Rainforest*
Zoonoses* / transmission

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. JY was supported by ULDA grant 483.A.XIV.24.