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Abstract
Emergent viral infections are defined as those the incidence of which has increased over the last 20 years. These infections concern human but also animal viruses affecting wild or tame animals. In humans, emergent viruses are of zoonotic origin and often due to crossing of species barrier. This inter-species crossing is promoted by various circumstances: environmental and climatic variations, bioterrorism, evolutive potential of the virus, etc. Screening for the animal reservoir is extremely important to prevent re-emergence and to eradicate the disease. The emergential success of some viruses has had serious consequences on human public health: flu pandemics, AIDS pandemic, hemorrhagic fever, and more recently SARS.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15620054 PMCID: PMC7126275
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Mal Infect ISSN: 0399-077X Impact factor: 2.152
Fig. 1Introduction des différents virus grippaux chez l’homme au XXe siècle. Depuis 1997, on note une augmentation du nombre de sérotypes pouvant infecter l’homme, faisant craindre une pandémie imminente. À noter que la surveillance épidémiologique s’est notablement renforcée au cours de ces dernières années [34].
Fig. 1. Introduction of various flu viruses in humans during the XXth century.