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Figure 4 | Infectious Diseases of Poverty

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From: Infectious disease emergence and global change: thinking systemically in a shrinking world

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Two perspective on EIDs and Global Change. The dominant perspective in the EID literature is currently to look to the left of the black line in this figure, discounting the existing health consequences of infectious diseases of poverty and the future risks to EIDs due to adverse global change. In contrast this paper focuses mainly on the view to the right side of this line. However, it also argues that the public health risks of EIDs, as mostly perceived, are exaggerated.

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