ArticleEcoHealth2017
Implications of Tourist-Macaque Interactions for Disease Transmission.
Article in EcoHealth, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Phenotypic and Genotype Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistance in Non-Human Primates: An Overlooked "One Health" Concern.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Conservation Status of the Barbary Macaque (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- High Prevalence of Dysfunctional Animal-Visitor Interactions in 225 Southeast Asian Zoos and Aquariums.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Impact of joint interactions with humans and social interactions with conspecifics on the risk of zooanthroponotic outbreaks among wildlife populations.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Analysis of English Cultural Teaching Model Based on Machine Learning.Computational intelligence and neuroscience · 2022Article
- Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on mammals at tourism destinations: a systematic review.Mammal review · 2021Review
- Zoonotic Blood-Borne Pathogens in Non-Human Primates in the Neotropical Region: A Systematic Review.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Impact of individual demographic and social factors on human-wildlife interactions: a comparative study of three macaque species.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The importance of first impression judgements in interspecies interactions.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Association of antimicrobial resistance and gut microbiota composition in human and non-human primates at an urban ecotourism site.Gut pathogens · 2020Article
- Interactions with humans are jointly influenced by life history stage and social network factors and reduce group cohesion in moor macaques (Macaca maura).Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The impact of food provisioning on parasite infection in wild black capuchin monkeys: a network approach.Primates; journal of primatology · 2019Article
- Infectious Disease Risk Across the Growing Human-Non Human Primate Interface: A Review of the Evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2019Review
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Abstract
During wildlife tourism, proximity or actual contact between people and animals may lead to a significant risk of anthropozoonotic disease transmission. In this paper, we use social network analysis, disease simulation modelling and data on animal health and behaviour to investigate such risks at a site in Morocco, where tourists come to see wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus). Measures of individual macaques' network centrality-an index of the strength and distribution of their social relationships and thus potentially their ability to spread disease-did not show clear and consistent relationships with their time spent in close proximity to, or rate of interacting with, tourists. Disease simulation modelling indicated that while higher-ranked animals had a significantly greater ability to spread disease within the group, in absolute terms there was little difference in the size of outbreaks that different individuals were predicted to cause. We observed a high rate of physical contact and close proximity between humans and macaques, including during three periods when the macaques were coughing and sneezing heavily, highlighting the potential risk of disease transmission. We recommend that general disease prevention strategies, such as those aimed at reducing opportunities for contact between tourists and macaques, should be adopted.
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