In the Americas, infectious viral diseases caused by viruses of the genus Mammarenavirus
have been reported since the 1960s. Such diseases have commonly been associated with …

The risk of compound drought heatwave events (CDHEs) and their persistence has
intensified in recent decades and is expected to increase faster in the future. Projecting …

Previous studies suggest that the risk of human infection by hantavirus, a family of rodent-
borne viruses, might be affected by different environmental determinants such as land cover …

Rodents, a diverse, globally distributed and ecologically important order of mammals are
nevertheless important reservoirs of known and novel zoonotic pathogens. Ongoing …

Climate change has been known to cause variations in the geographically suitable areas for
the schistosome-transmitting Oncomelania hupensis (O. hupensis). The spread of snails not …

Rodents represent over 40% of known mammal species and are found in various terrestrial
habitats. They are significant reservoirs for zoonotic viruses, including harmful pathogens …

Background Lassa virus (LASV), the cause of the acute viral hemorrhagic illness Lassa fever
(LF), is endemic in West Africa. Infections in humans occur mainly after exposure to infected …

More than ever, there is a need to understand how pathogens, vectors and hosts occur
temporally and spatially to predict the occurrence of zoonotic outbreaks. Related to this …

Billions of genomic sequences and records of species occurrence are available in public
repositories (eg National Center for Biotechnology Information, NCBI and the Global …

Despite repeated spillover transmission and their potential to cause significant morbidity and
mortality in human hosts, the New World mammarenaviruses remain largely understudied …