@Senay----Zoonotic diseases: What human activities are driving zoonotic disease dynamics? What makes some hosts great reservoir species? What ecological factors are driving transmission from animals to humans? Can we predict future outbreaks?
Anthropogenic environmental changes threaten human health and increase the risks of infectious diseases (citation). The primary drivers of emerging infectious diseases (EID) are ecological in nature, most of which have been perpetuated by anthropogenic changes (citation). Some of these ecological drivers include changes in land-use such as urbanization, increased global connectance due to transportation of animals and goods, and ecosystem changes such as deforestation (citation). Emerging diseases involves the initial invasion and subsequent spread of pathogen in a new host population.