What are Current Examples of Emerging Diseases?

Current Examples of Emerging Diseases
Schematic overview of the emerging infectious disease analysis framework. The rainbow spectrum reflects the full range of possible disease emergence scenarios that can be categorized as emergence in a new host, with new traits or in a new area. Pathogen-host-environment interplay and disease emergence. Engering A, Hogerwerf L, Slingenbergh J - Emerging microbes & infections (2013). Not Altered. CC.

Current examples of emerging diseases include:

  • Coronavirus
  • HIV infections
  • SARS
  • Lyme disease
  • Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli)
  • Hantavirus
  • Dengue fever
  • West Nile virus
  • Zika virus