Preventing future outbreaks of ebolaviruses in humans and other vulnerable animal populations will require identifying the natural reservoirs of filoviruses. Accumulating indirect evidence points to…
Barbara Han, JP Schmidt, David Hayman, Sarah Bowden, Laura Alexander, and John Drake Ecological Society of America, August, 2015
The elimination of malaria and other mosquito-borne pathogens is a major public health issue worldwide. A considerable obstacle to disease elimination in resource poor countries…
While avian influenza viruses are notoriously diverse, human adapted influenza is quite similar from place to place, evolving only relatively slowly and with strain replacement…
Malaria is prominent among the vector-borne infectious diseases widely anticipated to be affected by climate change. Roughly, the idea is that global and regional climate…
Two new papers from our study of the ecology of avian influenza viruses are now available. The first paper, by Barton et al., derives an…
Rift Valley fever is a viral disease of animals and humans and a global public health concern due to its ecological plasticity, ability to adapt,…
Emerging pathogens are among the most visible and costly threats to individual and public health. Antibiotics, vaccines, and the molecular revolution in biology have not…
This year is the 20th anniversary of the Programme on Epidemic Models held at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, UK. In…