The ongoing degradation of natural systems and other environmental changes has put our
society at a crossroad with respect to our future relationship with our planet. While the …

Genome sequencing has been widely deployed to study the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with
more than 90,000 genome sequences uploaded to the GISAID database. We published a …

The transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans is called “zoonotic spillover”.
Most human infectious diseases (60-75%) are derived from pathogens that originally …

Lassa fever is a severe viral hemorrhagic fever caused by a zoonotic virus that repeatedly
spills over to humans from its rodent reservoirs. It is currently not known how climate and …

Landscape connectivity is important for a wide range of ecological processes, including to
disease spread, once it describes the degree to which landscapes facilitate or impede vector …

Background Yellow fever (YF) is an arboviral disease which is endemic to Brazil due to a
sylvatic transmission cycle maintained by infected mosquito vectors, non-human primate …

In recent decades, waves of yellow fever virus (YFV) from the Amazon Rainforest have
spread and caused outbreaks in other regions of Brazil, including the Cerrado, a savannah …

We investigated the sylvatic yellow fever (SYF) diffusion process in São Paulo (SP) between
2016 and 2019. We developed an ecological study of SYF through autochthonous human …

The 2021 re-emergence of yellow fever in non-human primates in the state of Rio Grande do
Sul (RS), southernmost Brazil, resulted in the death of many howler monkeys (genus …

The intense process of deforestation in tropical forests poses serious challenges for the
survival of biodiversity, as well as for the human species itself. This scenario is supported by …