Presented by Professor Mbatcham Wilfried FON AUB 13th General Assembly Ordinary Assembly Session June 2022 The rise of emergent infectious disease (EID) EID events have risen significantly over time after controlling for reporting bias, with their peak incidence in the 1980s This has been concomitant with the HIV pandemic. EID events are dominated by; Zoonoses (60.3%): of which 71.8% originate in wildlife such as SARS, Ebola VD, Nipah etc Bacteria or Rickettsia cause 54.3% of EID events, reflecting a large number of drug-resistant microbes – (for example, vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). Download Full Presentation