Zoonotic diseases are a burden on healthcare systems globally, particularly
underdeveloped nations. Numerous vertebrate animals (eg, birds, mammals and reptiles) …

Human rhinoviruses (RVs) are picornaviruses that can cause a variety of upper and lower
respiratory tract illnesses, including the common cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, and …

Respiratory viruses of human origin infect wild apes across Africa, sometimes lethally. Here
we report simultaneous outbreaks of two distinct human respiratory viruses, human …

Picornaviruses are nonenveloped particles with a single-stranded RNA genome of positive
polarity. This virus family includes poliovirus, hepatitis A virus, rhinoviruses, and …

The ongoing global pandemic caused by coronavirus disease has once again demonstrated
the role of the family Coronaviridae in causing human disease outbreaks. Because severe …

Febrile illness is a major burden in African children, and non-malarial causes of fever are
uncertain. In this retrospective exploratory study, we used metagenomic next-generation …

Despite many recent efforts to predict and control emerging infectious disease threats to
humans, we failed to anticipate the zoonotic viruses which led to pandemics in 2009 and …

Dear Editor, A number of pathogens have been described to circulate between humans and
non-human primates. The close relatedness between these hosts is thought to support …

The new pandemic virus SARS-CoV-2 emerged in China and spread around the world in< 3
months, infecting millions of people, and causing countries to shut down public life and …

The great apes—bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans—are critically threatened
by human activities. We have destroyed their habitats, hunted them and transmitted fatal …