Introduction to Factors in Disease Transmission

There are numerous changes that humans have made to our earth that have directly or indirectly led to not just environmental degradation and climate change but also increases in zoonotic diseases. The subsequent pages will mention just a few of them. The figure below is a synopsis of some general changes and shows their interrelatedness.

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