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EDITORIAL article

Front. Trop. Dis.
Sec. Vaccines for Tropical Diseases
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fitd.2024.1535779
This article is part of the Research Topic One Health and Preparedness for Disease X in the Tropics: Spillover Prevention, Surveillance, Vaccines and Drugs View all 10 articles

Editorial: "One Health and Preparedness for Disease X in the Tropics: Spillover Prevention, Surveillance, Vaccines and Drugs" Editors

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Cristina Possas Cristina Possas 1*Akira Homma Akira Homma 1Ernesto T. A. Marques Ernesto T. A. Marques 2,3Suresh Kuchipudi Suresh Kuchipudi 2Prashant Kumar Prashant Kumar 4
  • 1 Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • 2 Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • 3 Aggeu Magalhães Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
  • 4 Vaccine Analytics and Formulation Center, Departament of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, United States

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    of traditional surveillance systems in assessing the impact of mortality in epidemics pandemics 47 and the urgent need for complementary tools better assess their impacts on morbidity and 48 mortality. 49 50 1 Thematic groups for an integrated approach to Pandemic Preparedness preventable diseases like measles. The reasons for this decline, that affected particularly tropical 66 developing countries, go far beyond the simplistic generalization of the "vaccine hesitancy" 67 assumption and are related to complex programmatic and socio-economic issues at the local level. 68Brazil is now among the countries with the lowest vaccination coverage worldwide.

    Keywords: One Health, Pandemic preparedness, Disease X, Vaccines, technology transfer, artificial intelligence

    Received: 27 Nov 2024; Accepted: 03 Dec 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Possas, Homma, Marques, Kuchipudi and Kumar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Cristina Possas, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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