It has been 20 years since West Nile virus first emerged in the Americas, and since then,
little progress has been made to control outbreaks caused by this virus. After its first …

The first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in South
Africa was identified on 5 March 2020, and by 26 March the country was in full lockdown …

Brazil currently has one of the fastest-growing severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemics in the world. Because of limited available data …

Spatially explicit phylogeographic analyses can be performed with an inference framework
that employs relaxed random walks to reconstruct phylogenetic dispersal histories in …

The year 2020 was a turning point in history and in global health. The COVID-19 pandemic
has highlighted the potential for deadly epidemic-prone diseases to overwhelm our …

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 …

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an unprecedented number of genomic
sequences of SARS-CoV-2 have been generated and shared with the scientific community …

Computational analyses of pathogen genomes are increasingly used to unravel the
dispersal history and transmission dynamics of epidemics. Here, we show how to go beyond …

B cells undergo rapid mutation and selection for antibody binding affinity when producing
antibodies capable of neutralizing pathogens. This evolutionary process can be intermixed …

Several aspects of mosquito ecology that are important for vectored disease transmission
and control have been difficult to measure at epidemiologically important scales in the field …