id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016312-u47mb2h0 Lu, Pu-Xuan Introduction of Emerging Infectious Diseases 2015-07-25 .txt text/plain 1780 115 51 Due to their uncertainty and unpredictability, EIDs could result in high mortality and great impacts on social stability and economic development as people are unable to react immediately and take specific preventive or control measures. Due to their uncertainty and unpredictability, EIDs could result in high mortality and great impacts on social stability and economic development as people are unable to react immediately and take specifi c preventive or control measures. Cases in point are the epidemics of SARS in 2003 and H7N9 avian infl uenza around 2006, which have eloquently demonstrated their great threats to human health, society, and economy. Such contagious diseases did not exist in the past and newly emerge due to new pathogens such as AIDS, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), human infection with highly pathogenic avian infl uenza H5N1, infl uenza A (HlN1), and human infection with avian infl uenza H7N9. revealed that 60.3 % EIDs were zoonotic, with 71.8 % caused by wild animals, such as human avian infl uenza and Ebola virus. ./cache/cord-016312-u47mb2h0.txt ./txt/cord-016312-u47mb2h0.txt