The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

Prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal
neurodegenerative diseases by an entirely novel mechanism. Prion diseases may present …

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of free-living wild animals can be classified into three
major groups on the basis of key epizootiological criteria:(i) EIDs associated with “spill-over” …

The following techniques for uncertainty and sensitivity analysis are briefly summarized:
Monte Carlo analysis, differential analysis, response surface methodology, Fourier …

The problem of sustaining a public resource that everybody is free to overuse—the 'tragedy
of the commons',,,,,,—emerges in many social dilemmas, such as our inability to sustain the …

Few infectious diseases are entirely human-specific: Most human pathogens also circulate
in animals or else originated in nonhuman hosts. Influenza, plague, and trypanosomiasis …

Vision is believed to dominate our multisensory perception of the world. Here we overturn
this established view by showing that auditory information can qualitatively alter the …

The discovery of infectious proteins, denoted prions, was unexpected. After much debate
over the chemical basis of heredity, resolution of this issue began with the discovery that …

▪ Abstract Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative conditions that include
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) …

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are inevitably lethal neurodegenerative
diseases that affect humans and a large variety of animals. The infectious agent responsible …