Food security, zoonoses, diet and climate change on the blue planet – an epidemiologist’s perspective

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Event Abstract Back to Event Food security, zoonoses, diet and climate change on the blue planet – an epidemiologist’s perspective KENTON MORGAN1* 1 UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom As the crop of farmed aquatic species is set to exceed the wild catch for the first time in history, domestication of aquatic animals and our transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers of this blue planet is taking place in real time. The process of domestication of aquatic species poses one of the greatest challenges to biology and biotechnology. The global change in species distribution, population density, host-parasite-environment interaction, environmental change, fish and shellfish consumption and demand for fish as ornaments, companions or pets is proceeding at a pace unmatched by scientific investigation or epidemiological capacity. The research questions are colossal e.g. what are the effects of the international translocation and monoculture of animal and plant species on biodiversity and ecosystems? What other new diseases will emerge from the changing host-parasite relationships associated with intensification? Can biotechnology effectively and acceptably control viral diseases of crustaceans, animals with rudimentary adaptive immune systems and poor disease resistance heritability? What was the origin of the plasmid associated toxin genes which turned Vibrio parahaemolyticus, an environmental bacterium, into a major shrimp pathogen? How can the socio-economic drivers which propagate aquaculture be tempered by the need to prevent international disease spread? How can zoonotic fish parasites, estimated to affect 100 million people, be controlled? Keywords: Zoonoses, Climate Change, One Health, Diet, Food security, environmental change Conference: AquaEpi I - 2016, Oslo, Norway, 20 Sep - 22 Sep, 2016. Presentation Type: Keynote Topic: Aquatic Animal Epidemiology Citation: MORGAN K (2016). Food security, zoonoses, diet and climate change on the blue planet – an epidemiologist’s perspective. Front. Vet. Sci. Conference Abstract: AquaEpi I - 2016. doi: 10.3389/conf.FVETS.2016.02.00066 Copyright: The abstracts in this collection have not been subject to any Frontiers peer review or checks, and are not endorsed by Frontiers. They are made available through the Frontiers publishing platform as a service to conference organizers and presenters. The copyright in the individual abstracts is owned by the author of each abstract or his/her employer unless otherwise stated. Each abstract, as well as the collection of abstracts, are published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 (attribution) licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and may thus be reproduced, translated, adapted and be the subject of derivative works provided the authors and Frontiers are attributed. For Frontiers’ terms and conditions please see https://www.frontiersin.org/legal/terms-and-conditions. Received: 20 Sep 2016; Published Online: 21 Sep 2016. * Correspondence: Prof. KENTON MORGAN, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL, NESTON, WIRRAL, CH64 7TE, United Kingdom, k.l.morgan@liv.ac.uk Login Required This action requires you to be registered with Frontiers and logged in. To register or login click here. Abstract Info Abstract The Authors in Frontiers KENTON MORGAN Google KENTON MORGAN Google Scholar KENTON MORGAN PubMed KENTON MORGAN Related Article in Frontiers Google Scholar PubMed Abstract Close Back to top Javascript is disabled. Please enable Javascript in your browser settings in order to see all the content on this page.