Abstract: The anthropogenic translocation of species has been a constant occurrence throughout human history, resulting in the exchange of pathogens and pests. However, only in the last few decades has extensive and regular contact between peoples, flora and fauna from both the Old and New Worlds occurred. The recent increases in speed, reach and volume of modern transport is putting people at risk from the emergence of new strains of familiar diseases on the other side of the planet, and from completely new diseases, while rates of dispersal of both dis...
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Topics: 
Ecology
Environmental ethics