Emerging viruses have the potential to impose substantial mortality, morbidity and economic
burdens on human populations. Tracking the spread of infectious diseases to assist in their …

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 …

This work examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world,
describing a process called" spillover" where illness originates in wild animals before being …

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making
science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral …

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

Background As sequence data sets used for the investigation of pathogen transmission
patterns increase in size, automated tools and standardized methods for cluster analysis …

Many organisms that cause infectious diseases, particularly RNA viruses, mutate so rapidly
that their evolutionary and ecological behaviours are inextricably linked. Consequently …

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 …

Ebola is a highly lethal virus, which has caused at least 14 confirmed outbreaks in Africa
between 1976 and 2006. Using data from two epidemics [in Democratic Republic of Congo …

We review the evidence for the role of climate change in triggering disease outbreaks of
chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease of amphibians. Both climatic anomalies …