Zoonoses will be more and more numerous in the future and our regions are the first exposed to all these epidemics of animal origin. This is revealed by an epidemiologist from INSERM. Since the 2000s, chik, zika, ebola, covid and today monkey pox have done a lot of damage
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Published on July 25, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Chikungunya, Zika, Ebola, Covid, Monkey Pox, Since the early 2000s, epidemics linked to viruses of animal origin have been on the rise. Their dangerousness depends on the pathogen in question. We will have to learn to live with the Covid. This is a phrase that comes up often, but we will have to learn to live with other epidemics as well.
With Ebola for example, mortality is 50 to 60% whereas with chikungunya it is much lower but with other risks such as articular complications….
Monkeypox has been an endemic disease in Central and West Africa since the 1970s. The novelty is its entry into European and American territories, with the first cases of human-to-human transmission observed outside the African continent…
So many symptomatic examples of what awaits us. For the eminent epidemiologist Eric D’Ortenzio, epidemiologist, head of the strategy and partnerships department of the ANRS-MIE (Inserm), phenomena of this type will multiply in the future.
In particular, deforestation, which promotes contact between humans and animals, but also global warming, which will lead to the migration of populations to areas where encounters with animals will be more common. More intensive rearing conditions will also enhance contact and transmission of pathogens.
In his view, it is therefore necessary to increase surveillance, particularly in our regions, since the majority of zoonoses appear in tropical zones.
If vaccination has eradicated many of them (smallpox, rabies), since the beginning of the 21st century, zoonoses have been multiplying and things are not going to improve due to the actions of man on the environment.