UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Frontiers 2016 Report: Emerging Issues of Environmental Concern

United Nations Environment Programme. 05/19/2016This 77-page report presents six emerging environmental issues, and provides examples of how certain issues may be addressed by innovating and rethinking policy interventions, new solutions, or adapting existing practices. The issues include a worldwide increase in disease emergence and epidemics, particularly from zoonoses, which include Ebola, bird flu, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), Rift Valley fever, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), West Nile virus, and Zika virus disease. (PDF)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - May 28, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news