Authors:
Leach, Melissa, Bett, Bernard, Said, M, Bukachi, Salome, Sang, Rosemary, Anderson, Neil, Machila, Noreen, Kuleszo, Joanna, Schaten, Kathryn, Dzingirai, Vupenyu, Mangwanya, Lindiwe, Ntiamoa-Baidu, Yaa, Lawson, Elaine, Amponsah-Mensah, Kofi, Moses, Lina M, Wilkinson, Annie, Grant, Donald S, Koninga, James
Corporate Author:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
Published:
2017

This article explores the implications for human health of local interactions between disease, ecosystems and livelihoods. Five interdisciplinary case studies addressed zoonotic diseases in African settings: Rift Valley fever (RVF) in Kenya, human African trypanosomiasis in Zambia and Zimbabwe, Lassa fever in Sierra Leone and henipaviruses in Ghana.