Disturbance and disease

Lambin, E.F., Anugwom, E., Prist, P.R., Agha, S., White, S., Randolph, D.G., Khan, S.A., Fèvre, E.M., Gottdenker, N. and Murray, K. 2025. Disturbance and disease. One Earth 8(4): 101280.

The world has witnessed an alarming rise in the emergence of infectious diseases, posing profound challenges to public health, ecological balance, and global well-being. Displacement of people and the destabilization of ecosystems create conditions that significantly amplify the risk of disease outbreaks. In this Voices, we ask: how has anthropogenic environmental disturbance impacted the likelihood of disease outbreaks?