The ongoing West African Ebola epidemic highlights a recurring trend in the zoonotic
emergence of virulent pathogens likely to come from bat reservoirs that has caused …

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

Aquatic birds harbor diverse influenza A viruses and are a major viral reservoir in nature.
The recent discovery of influenza viruses of a new H17N10 subtype in Central American fruit …

Influenza A virus reservoirs in animals have provided novel genetic elements leading to the
emergence of global pandemics in humans. Most influenza A viruses circulate in waterfowl …

Bats are the natural reservoirs of a number of high-impact viral zoonoses. We present a
quantitative analysis to address the hypothesis that bats are unique in their propensity to …

In recent years severe infectious diseases have been constantly emerging, causing panic in
the world. Now we know that many of these terrible diseases are caused by viruses …

Bats are hosts to a range of zoonotic and potentially zoonotic pathogens. Human activities
that increase exposure to bats will likely increase the opportunity for infections to spill over in …

Bats have received considerable recent attention for infectious disease research because of
their potential to host and transmit viruses, including Ebola, Hendra, Nipah, and multiple …

Viruses infect all forms of life and play critical roles as agents of disease, drivers of
biochemical cycles and sources of genetic diversity for their hosts. Our understanding of viral …

Introduction microorganisms and macrohistory one of the chief blessings of living in the
modern world is supposed to be that the risk of dying from an infectious disease has become …