Vaccines (Jun 2022)

Vaccine Preventable Zoonotic Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities for Public Health Progress

  • Ann Carpenter,
  • Michelle A. Waltenburg,
  • Aron Hall,
  • James Kile,
  • Marie Killerby,
  • Barbara Knust,
  • Maria Negron,
  • Megin Nichols,
  • Ryan M. Wallace,
  • Casey Barton Behravesh,
  • Jennifer H. McQuiston,
  • the Vaccine Preventable Zoonotic Disease Working Group

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10070993
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 7
p. 993

Abstract

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Zoonotic diseases represent a heavy global burden, causing important economic losses, impacting animal health and production, and costing millions of human lives. The vaccination of animals and humans to prevent inter-species zoonotic disease transmission is an important intervention. However, efforts to develop and implement vaccine interventions to reduce zoonotic disease impacts are often limited to the veterinary and agricultural sectors and do not reflect the shared burden of disease. Multisectoral collaboration, including co-development opportunities for human and animal vaccines, expanding vaccine use to include animal reservoirs such as wildlife, and strategically using vaccines to interrupt complex transmission cycles is needed. Addressing zoonoses requires a multi-faceted One Health approach, wherein vaccinating people and animals plays a critical role.

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