Global drivers of human pathogen richness and prevalence

Author:

Dunn Robert R.1,Davies T. Jonathan23,Harris Nyeema C.1,Gavin Michael C.4

Affiliation:

1. Department of Biology and Keck Behavioral Biology Group, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27607, USA

2. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA

3. Department of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1B1

4. School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract

The differences in the richness and prevalence of human pathogens among different geographical locations have ramifying consequences for societies and individuals. The relative contributions of different factors to these patterns, however, have not been fully resolved. We conduct a global analysis of the relative influence of climate, alternative host diversity and spending on disease prevention on modern patterns in the richness and prevalence of human pathogens. Pathogen richness (number of kinds) is largely explained by the number of birds and mammal species in a region. The most diverse countries with respect to birds and mammals are also the most diverse with respect to pathogens. Importantly, for human health, the prevalence of key human pathogens (number of cases) is strongly influenced by disease control efforts. As a consequence, even where disease richness is high, we might still control prevalence, particularly if we spend money in those regions where current spending is low, prevalence is high and populations are large.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Environmental Science,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Medicine

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