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cord-291528-j4uir8ns	Heymann, David L	Social, Behavioural and Environmental Factors and Their Impact on Infectious Disease Outbreaks	2005-04-25		.txt	text/plain	1848	86	42	In their article "Meeting the challenge of epidemic infectious diseases outbreaks: an agenda for research", Kai-Lit Phua and Lai Kah Lee clearly demonstrate how social, behavioural and environmental factors, linked to a host of human activities, have accelerated and amplified these natural phenomena. By reviewing published and non-published information about outbreaks of Nipah virus in Malaysia, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza in Asia, and the HIV pandemic, they provide a series of examples that demonstrate the various social, behavioural and environmental factors of these recent infectious disease outbreaks. Although intensive research has failed to disclose the origins of Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fever outbreaks, microbes causing both diseases are also thought to be transmitted to humans who encounter animal sources somewhere in the transmission cycle (16) .	./cache/cord-291528-j4uir8ns.txt	./txt/cord-291528-j4uir8ns.txt