BackgroundEcosystem disservices are ecosystem-generated functions and processes that result in negative effects on human wellbeing. To effectively manage Earth, we need to not only understand the ecological responses of species habitats global change, but also those pathogens. Zoonotic infectious diseases (ZIDs) a particularly important disservice as they can affect vulnerable populations major...

OBJECTIVE To identify emerging animal and zoonotic diseases and associated geographic distribution, disease agents, animal hosts, and seasonality of reporting in the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)-mail electronic early warning system. DESIGN Retrospective study. SAMPLE POPULATION 10,490 disease reports. PROCEDURES Descriptive statistics were collated for all animal dise...

Parasitic diseases present a considerable socio-economic impact to society. Zoonotic parasites can result in a considerable burden of disease in people and substantive economic losses to livestock populations. Ameliorating the effects of these diseases may consist of attempts at eradicating specific diseases at a global level, eliminating them at a national or local level or controlling them to...

The present paper discusses the fundamentals of the sciences of complexity and chaos as tools in the proliferation of vectors and zoonosis. The first part of the article discusses the rationale and history of the sciences of complexity, a different view as to understand and analyze dynamic systems. These concepts explain the dynamics of the origin of life itself and break the paradigms of linea...