The world is becoming more urban every day, and the process has been ongoing since the
industrial revolution in the 18th century. The United Nations now estimates that 3.9 billion …

The 2013–2016 epidemic of Ebola virus disease in West Africa was of unprecedented
magnitude and changed our perspective on this lethal but sporadically emerging virus. This …

Plastic in the global oceans fulfills two of the three conditions for pollution to pose a
planetary boundary threat because it is causing planetary-scale exposure that is not readily …

Over the past 30 years, several cross-species transmission events, as well as changes in
virus tropism, have mediated significant animal and human diseases. Most notable is severe …

Filoviruses, including Ebolavirus and Marburgvirus, pose significant threats to public health
and species conservation by causing hemorrhagic fever outbreaks with high mortality rates …

Ebola viruses and Marburg viruses include some of the most virulent and fatal pathogens
known to humans. These viruses cause severe haemorrhagic fevers, with case fatality rates …

Despite being nearly 10 months into the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic,
the definitive animal host for SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

On 23 March 2014, the World Health Organization issued its first communiqué on a new
outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD), which began in December 2013 in Guinée …

Spillover of a pathogen from a wildlife reservoir into a human or livestock host requires the
pathogen to overcome a hierarchical series of barriers. Interventions aimed at one or more …

Since their discovery 40 years ago, Ebola viruses (in the following: EBOV; family Filoviridae,
genus Ebolavirus) continue to emerge unpredictably and cause Ebola virus disease (EVD) …