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

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  • Hiral A. Shah

    (School of Public Health, Imperial College London
    Grantham Institute—Climate Change and the Environment—Imperial College London)

  • Paul Huxley

    (School of Public Health, Imperial College London
    Grantham Institute—Climate Change and the Environment—Imperial College London)

  • Jocelyn Elmes

    (School of Public Health, Imperial College London
    London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

  • Kris A. Murray

    (School of Public Health, Imperial College London
    Grantham Institute—Climate Change and the Environment—Imperial College London)

Abstract

Agriculture has been implicated as a potential driver of human infectious diseases. However, the generality of disease-agriculture relationships has not been systematically assessed, hindering efforts to incorporate human health considerations into land-use and development policies. Here we perform a meta-analysis with 34 eligible studies and show that people who live or work in agricultural land in Southeast Asia are on average 1.74 (CI 1.47–2.07) times as likely to be infected with a pathogen than those unexposed. Effect sizes are greatest for exposure to oil palm, rubber, and non-poultry based livestock farming and for hookworm (OR 2.42, CI 1.56–3.75), malaria (OR 2.00, CI 1.46–2.73), scrub typhus (OR 2.37, CI 1.41–3.96) and spotted fever group diseases (OR 3.91, CI 2.61–5.85). In contrast, no change in infection risk is detected for faecal-oral route diseases. Although responses vary by land-use and disease types, results suggest that agricultural land-uses exacerbate many infectious diseases in Southeast Asia.

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  • Hiral A. Shah & Paul Huxley & Jocelyn Elmes & Kris A. Murray, 2019. "Agricultural land-uses consistently exacerbate infectious disease risks in Southeast Asia," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 10(1), pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:10:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-019-12333-z
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12333-z
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