(Express) – Rabies, plague, SARS and zoonotic influenza all have the potential to develop into global pandemics, a US-based expert in infectious diseases has warned. In the week in which a Norwegian woman died after contracting rabies in the Philippines, the diseases are on a list of eight highlighted by the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in a report examining zoonotic illnesses – meaning
those which have the potential to jump from animals to people – published this week. Dr. Casey Barton Behravesh, director of the One Health Office at the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia, told Express.co.uk: “All of these diseases are of concern. “They are present in the United States but also pose problems in other regions as well.” The illnesses all had the potential to become widespread quickly, with lethal consequences, she explained. READ MORE
