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Agricultural land-uses consistently exacerbate infectious disease risks in Southeast Asia
- Source :
- Nature Communications, Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- Agriculture has been implicated as a potential driver of human infectious diseases. However, the generality of disease-agriculture relationships has not been systematically assessed, hindering efforts to incorporate human health considerations into land-use and development policies. Here we perform a meta-analysis with 34 eligible studies and show that people who live or work in agricultural land in Southeast Asia are on average 1.74 (CI 1.47–2.07) times as likely to be infected with a pathogen than those unexposed. Effect sizes are greatest for exposure to oil palm, rubber, and non-poultry based livestock farming and for hookworm (OR 2.42, CI 1.56–3.75), malaria (OR 2.00, CI 1.46–2.73), scrub typhus (OR 2.37, CI 1.41–3.96) and spotted fever group diseases (OR 3.91, CI 2.61–5.85). In contrast, no change in infection risk is detected for faecal-oral route diseases. Although responses vary by land-use and disease types, results suggest that agricultural land-uses exacerbate many infectious diseases in Southeast Asia.<br />Here, Shah et al. perform a meta-analysis and show that people who live or work in agricultural land in Southeast Asia are on average 1.7 times more likely to be infected with a pathogen than controls, suggesting that agricultural land-use increases infectious disease risk.
- Subjects :
- Databases, Factual
Epidemiology
General Physics and Astronomy
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
Scrub typhus
Disease
0302 clinical medicine
Agricultural land
HUMAN-POPULATIONS
030212 general & internal medicine
lcsh:Science
HELMINTH INFECTIONS
Asia, Southeastern
2. Zero hunger
Tick-borne disease
CLIMATE-CHANGE
Multidisciplinary
Agriculture
FOREST FRAGMENTATION
3. Good health
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Geography
Infectious diseases
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Science
030231 tropical medicine
Communicable Diseases
Article
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
PARTICIPATORY EPIDEMIOLOGY
03 medical and health sciences
WASTE-WATER
Environmental health
medicine
Animals
Humans
JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS
Ecosystem
Ecological epidemiology
Science & Technology
business.industry
LYME-DISEASE
General Chemistry
15. Life on land
medicine.disease
Spotted fever
Risk factors
Infectious disease (medical specialty)
TICK-BORNE DISEASES
lcsh:Q
business
Malaria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20411723
- Volume :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Communications
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3706e71c0cff2f6c0e5ef7dec88de42e