The immeasurable complexity at every level of biological organization creates a daunting
task for understanding biological function. Here, we highlight the risks of stripping it away at …

Bat-borne viruses carry undeniable risks to the health of human beings and animals, and
there is growing recognition of the need for a 'One Health'approach to understand their …

Identifying virus characteristics associated with the largest public health impacts on human
populations is critical to informing “zoonotic risk” assessments and surveillance strategies …

In Brazil most forms of hunting and keeping of wild animals are illegal, although they remain
widely practiced and are deeply culturally embedded in many regions. The drivers of such …

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 has led to the death or destruction of
millions of domesticated and wild birds and caused hundreds of human deaths worldwide …

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 …

The scientific debate on the need for pandemic preparedness and an evolutionary approach
to infectious disease emergence, from disease evolution and eco-social conceptual …

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a world surprisingly unprepared to respond to the new
epidemiological scenario, even the developed countries, in spite of warnings from scientists …

Studies of viruses that coevolved with lemurs provide an opportunity to understand the basal
traits of primate viruses and provide an evolutionary context for host-virus interactions …

Understanding the zoonotic and emerging potential of viruses is critical to prevent and
control spread that can cause disease epidemics or pandemics. We developed a database …