New and emerging diseases.

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This chapter looks at new and emerging diseases, infections that have appeared in recent times and others that have not fully developed into the serious problem that they could become. Animal-related infectious diseases that caused great impact in humans are described, including HIV infection, bovine spongiform encephalopathy/variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, severe acute respiratory syndrome, avian influenza, monkeypox, Nipah virus, Hendra virus, Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome, haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, salmonellosis and Campylobacter infection. Arboviral diseases (West Nile fever, Rift Valley fever, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever, chikungunya virus disease and Zika fever), antimicrobial-resistant infections and bioterrorism agents (plague, smallpox, tularaemia, anthrax, botulinum toxin) are discussed.

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