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Author: Fooks, Anthony R; Johnson, Nicholas
Title: Jet set pets: examining the zoonosis risk in animal import and travel across the European Union
  • Document date: 2014_12_18
  • ID: se7l2mki_29
    Snippet: Holidaymakers traveling with their pets to southern Europe where leishmaniasis is endemic are at the highest risk of bringing the disease back to northern latitudes. Whilst the absence of the vector will prohibit the disease from becoming endemic, this could change if the range of sandflies increases through various factors, especially by climate change and fragmentation of habitat. 67 However, the presence of infected imported dogs provides a po.....
    Document: Holidaymakers traveling with their pets to southern Europe where leishmaniasis is endemic are at the highest risk of bringing the disease back to northern latitudes. Whilst the absence of the vector will prohibit the disease from becoming endemic, this could change if the range of sandflies increases through various factors, especially by climate change and fragmentation of habitat. 67 However, the presence of infected imported dogs provides a potential risk of physical transmission of the protozoa to humans.

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