Infectious diseases account for more than 20% of global mortality and viruses are
responsible for about one-third of these deaths. Highly infectious viral diseases such as …

Infectious diseases are a significant burden on public health and economic stability of
societies all over the world. They have for centuries been among the leading causes of …

Introduction Robust metrics for national-level preparedness are critical for assessing global
resilience to epidemic and pandemic outbreaks. However, existing preparedness …

The 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic was considered to be the largest and most complex
outbreak, which caused 11,310 reported deaths. The epidemic disease can cause a mental …

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic made us re-realize the importance of environmental
disinfection and sanitation in indoor areas, hospitals, and clinical rooms. UVC irradiation of …

Progress in combatting zoonoses that emerge from wildlife is often constrained by limited
knowledge of the biology of pathogens within reservoir hosts. We focus on the host …

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a virus-mediated hemorrhagic disease that
occurs over a wide geographic region. In recent years, a variety of active and passive …

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 …

Specific host pathways that may be targeted therapeutically to inhibit the replication of Ebola
virus (EBOV) and other emerging viruses remain incompletely defined. A screen of 200,000 …

Emerging infectious diseases of zoonotic origin are an ever-increasing public health risk
and economic burden. The factors that determine if and when an animal virus is able to spill …