Social anthropology of zoonoses

The existence of an emerging disease paradigm is dominated by the fact that 70% of emerging diseases are linked to an event that crosses the species barrier between the animal and human worlds. These zoonoses bring a de facto anthropological dimension to the field, particularly in the analysis of the human-animal relationship, and explain how the infection, and therefore the microbe involved, affects this relationship. This is a veritable "triangular" social anthropology: human-animal reservoir-pathogen. Influenza, which often originates in Asia, is a textbook case of this triangular relationship.