Zoonotic disease: who gets sick, and why? Explorations from Africa
This paper proposes a social difference space–time framework to assist the understanding to zoonotic diseases within a ‘One Health’ approach
Abstract
Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics of disease exposure, demonstrating how risks are not generalised, but are related to occupation, gender, class and other dimensions of social difference. Through case studies of Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone, Henipah virus in Ghana, Rift Valley Fever in Kenya and Trypanosomiasis in Zimbabwe, the paper proposes a social difference space–time framework to assist the understanding of and response to zoonotic diseases within a ‘One Health’ approach.
Citations
Vupenyu Dzingirai, Bernard Bett, Sally Bukachi, Elaine Lawson, Lindiwe Mangwanya, Ian Scoones, Linda Waldman, Annie Wilkinson, Melissa Leach & Tom Winnebah (2017) Zoonotic diseases: who gets sick, and why? Explorations from Africa, Critical Public Health, 27:1, 97-110, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1187260
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Zoonotic disease: who gets sick, and why? Explorations from Africa