Emerging Diseases: a potential threat for the pig industry, BILLINIS CHARALAMBOS
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The term emerging diseases includes infectious diseases that have recently been described or developed or diseases which, while were already known, recently increased their incidence or their expansion into new geographic areas or infect new hosts or employ new carriers.The concept of "emerging diseases" developed by scientists who were trying to document and explain the sudden increase in the number of new and important diseases during the past two decades.