Ecological countermeasures to prevent pathogen spillover and subsequent pandemics

RK Plowright, AN Ahmed, T Coulson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Substantial global attention is focused on how to reduce the risk of future pandemics.
Reducing this risk requires investment in prevention, preparedness, and response. Although …

Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology

P Eby, AJ Peel, A Hoegh, W Madden, JR Giles… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
During recent decades, pathogens that originated in bats have become an increasing public
health concern. A major challenge is to identify how those pathogens spill over into human …

Host–pathogen interactions under pressure: A review and meta‐analysis of stress‐mediated effects on disease dynamics

A Vicente‐Santos, B Willink, K Nowak… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities have increased the intensity and frequency of natural stressors and created
novel stressors, altering host–pathogen interactions and changing the risk of emerging …

Small mammals at the edge of deforestation in Cambodia: Transient community dynamics and potential pathways to pathogen emergence

M Pruvot, S Chea, V Hul, S In, V Buor, JL Ramassamy… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Conversion of forest to agricultural land results in rapid and profound changes in
ecosystems and biodiversity loss and increases the risk of pathogen emergence. However …

West Nile virus and climate change

RL Fay, AC Keyel, AT Ciota - Advances in Virus Research, 2022 - Elsevier
West Nile virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus with a global distribution that is
maintained in an enzootic cycle between Culex species mosquitoes and avian hosts …

Constraints on population growth of blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) in Kibale National Park, Uganda

H Frogge, RA Jones, S Angedakin, R Busobozi… - Behaviour, 2022 - brill.com
Abstract Changes in population size are driven by environmental and social factors. In spite
of repeated efforts to identify the constraints on an unusually low-density population of blue …

Movement-related drivers of exposure to West Nile virus by American robins (Turdus migratorius)

AE Jahn, K Koller, LB Martin, TM Smiley, TB Verrett… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The ecological processes that determine how individual animals become hosts to zoonotic
pathogens is a topic of rapidly growing interest. However, how such exposure is mediated …

Effects of urban sugar water feeding on bird body condition and avian diseases

DA Erastova, JA Galbraith, KE Cain… - Avian Biology …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Garden bird sugar water feeding is increasingly popular worldwide, but little is known about
its effects on bird health and associated diseases. There is a concern that feeding stations …

Integrating predictors of host condition into spatiotemporal multi-scale models of virus shedding

AM Kramer, CL Faust, AA Castellanos, IR Fischhoff… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Understanding where and when pathogens occur in the environment has implications for
reservoir population health and infection risk. In reservoir hosts, infection status and …

Distribution spatiotemporelle et caractéristiques des cas de virus du Nil occidental chez les chevaux du Canada entre 2003 et 2020

A Levasseur - 2023 - papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca
Le virus du Nil occidental (VNO) est un flavivirus présent au Canada depuis 2001, affectant
principalement les oiseaux, les chevaux et les humains. En 2003, l'Agence canadienne …