[Infectious diseases outbreaks in French overseas territories: when the circumstances are right...].

Bull Acad Natl Med

Département de Géographie, Université Paris 12-Val de Marne, 61 av. du Gl. de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil cédex.

Published: November 2007

Emerging infectious diseases have become a major preoccupation over the past 30 years, possibly owing to the way in which we treat our environment. The current world situation, with its overcrowding, socio-political instability, and increased mobility, offers extremely favourable circumstances for the emergence and rapid spread of microbial pathogens through human populations. The HIV/AIDS pandemic and its impact on Africa is used to illustrate these risks.

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