Zoonotic pathogens and parasites that are transmitted from vertebrates to humans are a
major public health risk with high associated global economic costs. The spread of these …

Outbreaks of zoonotic diseases are accelerating at an unprecedented rate in the current era
of globalization, with substantial impacts on the global economy, public health, and …

Recent viral zoonotic epidemics have been attributed partially to the negative impact of
human activities on ecosystem biodiversity. Agricultural activities, particularly conventional …

Background As the largest group of mammalian species, which are also widely distributed
all over the world, rodents are the natural reservoirs for many diverse zoonotic viruses. A …

Land-use change has a direct impact on species survival and reproduction, altering their
spatio-temporal distributions. It acts as a selective force that favours the abundance and …

All parasites are heterogeneous in space, yet little is known about the prevalence and scale
of this spatial variation, particularly in wild animal systems. To address this question, we …

Zoonotic emergence requires spillover from animals to humans, hence animal-human
interactions. A lot has been emphasized on human intrusion into wild habitats (eg …

Viral discovery studies in wild animals often rely on cross‐sectional surveys at a single time
point. As a result, our understanding of the temporal stability of wild animal viromes remains …

Background Leptospirosis is among the leading zoonotic causes of morbidity and mortality
worldwide. Knowledge about spatial patterns of diseases and their underlying processes …

European orthohantaviruses (Puumala orthohantavirus (PUUV); Dobrava-Belgrade
orthohantavirus (DOBV), genotype Kurkino; Tula orthohantavirus (TULV)), and Leptospira …