Systematic review and meta-analysis of the persistence and disinfection of human coronaviruses and their viral surrogates in water and wastewater

AI Silverman, AB Boehm - Environmental Science & Technology …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted to identify decay rate constants (k) of
human coronaviruses and their viral surrogates (ie, animal coronaviruses and the …

RNA vaccines: a suitable platform for tackling emerging pandemics?

JB Sandbrink, RJ Shattock - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the ongoing threat of pandemics caused by novel,
previously unrecognized, or mutated pathogens with high transmissibility. Currently, vaccine …

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the persistence of enveloped viruses in environmental waters and wastewater in the absence of disinfectants

AI Silverman, AB Boehm - Environmental Science & Technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
Enveloped viruses are characterized by a lipid-containing envelope that encapsulates the
virion, and they have been the cause of major outbreaks and pandemics. Some enveloped …

Implications of zoonoses from hunting and use of wildlife in North American arctic and boreal biomes: Pandemic potential, monitoring, and mitigation

LO Keatts, M Robards, SH Olson, K Hueffer… - Frontiers in public …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has re-focused attention on mechanisms that lead to zoonotic
disease spillover and spread. Commercial wildlife trade, and associated markets, are …

Promoting versatile vaccine development for emerging pandemics

JT Monrad, JB Sandbrink, NG Cherian - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of rapid and versatile
development of emergency medical countermeasures such as vaccines. We discuss the role …

Emerging diseases, re‐emerging histories

MH Green - Centaurus, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The notion of “emerging infectious diseases”(EID) as a category of global health concerns
was created in the 1990s to acknowledge that, although public health interventions …

Stay-at-home orders, mobility patterns, and spread of COVID-19

T Murray - American Journal of Public Health, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To understand how stay-at-home orders changed mobility patterns and
influenced the spread of COVID-19. Methods. I merged 2020 data from the Virginia …

Microorganisms as shapers of human civilization, from pandemics to even our genomes: villains or friends? A Historical approach

F Rodríguez-Frías, J Quer, D Tabernero, MF Cortese… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
Universal history is characterized by continuous evolution, in which civilizations are born
and die. This evolution is associated with multiple factors, among which the role of …

[HTML][HTML] A tool for rapid assessment of wildlife markets in the Asia-Pacific Region for risk of future zoonotic disease outbreaks

E Wikramanayake, DU Pfeiffer, I Magouras, A Conan… - One Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Decades of warnings that the trade and consumption of wildlife could result in serious
zoonotic pandemics have gone largely unheeded. Now the world is ravaged by COVID-19 …

Host–pathogen responses to pandemic influenza H1N1pdm09 in a human respiratory airway model

EA Pharo, SM Williams, V Boyd, V Sundaramoorthy… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
The respiratory Influenza A Viruses (IAVs) and emerging zoonotic viruses such as Severe
Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pose a significant threat to …