Emerging infectious diseases: opportunities at the human-animal-environment interface.

EmErging infectious diseases (EiDs) range from novel zoonotic infections to infective organisms with new patterns of antimicrobial resistance. in the modern age, the speed at which infections can spread globally and transition into deadly pandemics means that surveillance must be able to monitor infections that have the potential to cause outbreaks and also to capture unknown threats that may emerge from a wide variety of sources. Because infections can travel both ways at the interface between animals and people, animal health is intrinsically linked to human health. Zoonotic influenza viruses, for example, are not only transmitted from animals to people, but can be transmitted in the other direction into animals, causing illness through recombination in either group. Bringing the human, animal and environmental sectors