Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Agricultural land-uses consistently exacerbate infectious disease risks in Southeast Asia

  • Hiral A. Shah,
  • Paul Huxley,
  • Jocelyn Elmes,
  • Kris A. Murray

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12333-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Here, Shah et al. perform a meta-analysis and show that people who live or work in agricultural land in Southeast Asia are on average 1.7 times more likely to be infected with a pathogen than controls, suggesting that agricultural land-use increases infectious disease risk.