Individual heterogeneity can influence the dynamics of infectious diseases in wildlife and
humans alike. Thus, recent work has sought to identify behavioural characteristics that …

A specific concept of strain was developed in order to classify the BTV serotypes ever
reported in Europe based on their properties of animal health impact: the genotype …

Animal hosts can adapt to emerging infectious disease through both disease resistance,
which decreases pathogen numbers, and disease tolerance, which limits damage during …

Anthropogenic food provisioning of wildlife can alter the frequency of contacts among hosts
and between hosts and environmental sources of pathogens. Despite the popularity of …

Over the past several decades, outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases (EID s) in wild
birds have attracted worldwide media attention, either because of their extreme virulence or …

Host individuals and populations often vary in their responses to infection, with direct
consequences for pathogen spread and evolution. While considerable work has focused on …

Ever since Mycoplasma gallisepticum emerged among house finches in North America, it
has been suggested that bird aggregations at feeders are an important cause of the …

The evolution of higher virulence during disease emergence has been predicted by
theoretical models, but empirical studies of short-term virulence evolution following …

Pathogen epidemics are key threats to human and wildlife health. Across systems, host
protection from pathogens following initial exposure is often incomplete, resulting in …

Understanding the behavioural mechanisms that mediate pathogen transmission in social
hosts like birds could provide the empirical bases for explaining the epidemiological …