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They are a result of things people do to nature. Disease, it turns out, is largely an environmental issue. Sixty percent of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans are zoonotic â they originate in animals. And more than two-thirds of those originate in wildlife.
âHantavirus, Ebola and Hendra are just a few other new diseases to recently emerge in humans.â âAnd the most devastating infection in the world is not Ebola or Lyme disease, West Nile virus or even HIV, but tuberculosis.â âThe mechanism of transmission of Ebola isn't completely understood.â âIn May 2004 I was part of an international team that responded to an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in South Sudan.â