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Host factors contributing to emergence are:

1.Mass migration of people provoked by natural and man made disaster with concomitant rehabilitation of displaced people in temporary human settlements under unhygienic conditions.
2.Uninhibited and reckless industrialization leading to migration of labor population from rural to urban areas in unhygienic squatter settlements
3.International travel as a result of trade and tourism contributing to global dispersion of disease agents, disease reservoirs and vectors
4.Changes in lifestyle that promote unhealthy and risk prone behavior patterns affecting  food habits and sexual practices.
5.Declining immunity of as a result of HIV infection, which make him vulnerable to a host of infections.