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ReviewEClinicalMedicine2022

Averting wildlife-borne infectious disease epidemics requires a focus on socio-ecological drivers and a redesign of the global food system.

Giulia I Wegner, Kris A Murray, Marco Springmann, Adrian Muller, Susanne H Sokolow, Karen Saylors, David M Morens

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In one paragraph

Review in EClinicalMedicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
13.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Giulia I WegnerWildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon OX13 5QL, UK.
Kris A MurrayMRC Unit the Gambia at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, Gambia.
Marco SpringmannOxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food and Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, 34 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BD, UK.
Adrian MullerDepartment of Environmental Systems Science, ETH, Sonneggstrasse 33, Zürich 8092, Switzerland.
Susanne H SokolowStanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building, MC 4205, 473 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Karen SaylorsLabyrinth Global Health, 15th Ave NE, St Petersburg, FL 33704, USA.
David M MorensNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
University of Oxford · GBETH Zurich · CHMRC Unit the Gambia · GMNational Institutes of Health · USYazaki (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A debate has emerged over the potential socio-ecological drivers of wildlife-origin zoonotic disease outbreaks and emerging infectious disease (EID) events. This Review explores the extent to which the incidence of wildlife-origin infectious disease outbreaks, which are likely to include devastating pandemics like HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, may be linked to excessive and increasing rates of tropical deforestation for agricultural food production and wild meat hunting and trade, which are further related to contemporary ecological crises such as global warming and mass species extinction. Here we explore a set of precautionary responses to wildlife-origin zoonosis threat, including: (a) limiting human encroachment into tropical wildlands by promoting a global transition to diets low in livestock source foods; (b) containing tropical wild meat hunting and trade by curbing urban wild meat demand, while securing access for indigenous people and local communities in remote subsistence areas; and (c) improving biosecurity and other strategies to break zoonosis transmission pathways at the wildlife-human interface and along animal source food supply chains.

Indexed as

AgricultureDeforestationEmerging infectious diseaseGlobal food systemLivestockOne healthWild meatZoonosis

Identifiers

PMID35465645
PMCPMC9014132
OpenAlexW4224136498

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Registered trials

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