Infectious diseases know no borders: A plea for more collaboration between researchers in human and veterinary vaccines

摘要

Our present society would not be sustainable without vaccination, which is an essential and cost effective strategy to prevent, control and even eradicate infectious diseases in man and animals. A special report in published on 3rd May 2007 entitled noted that >50% of mankind and our companion animals now live together in big cities. Moreover, animals for meat production are farmed in ever larger groups, and the movement of humans and animals has increased tremendously. Under these circumstances, infectious diseases (that know no borders anyway) spread easily and vaccination is needed to stop or slow down serious disease outbreaks.