Public Health · Vol. 3, No. 1 · 2025 · pp. e1–e2 · e-ISSN 2472-3878

Our Interconnection through Mobility Facilitates the Spread of Infectious Pathogens

Chengjun Sun

School of Management and Economics, Kunming University of Science and Technology, 253, Xuefu Road, Kunming,Yunnan 650093, ChinaChina

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17140/phoj-3-e005 · Published 2025-09-03 · Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 · © 2025 The Author(s)

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Abstract

Pathogens have been moving around for a while. The History of the Peloponnesian War, written by Thucydides (c. 460 BC - c. 395 BC), an Athenian historian, describes the plague of Athens of 430 BC, and it is said “It first began in the parts of Ethiopia above Egypt, and thence descended into Egypt and Libya and into most of the [Persian] King’s country. Suddenly falling upon Athens, it first attacked the population in Piraeus [..] and afterwards appeared in the upper city, when the deaths became much more frequent.

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Acknowledgement

The author acknowledges financial support from the project of KMUST for Fostering Talents in provincial level (KKSY201 608050) and the project of Yunnan Education Department (2016ZZX055). The author would like to acknowledgement Kunming University of Science and Technology research facility and support.

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