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 …

A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

WF Frick, T Kingston, J Flanders - … of the new York Academy of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Bats are an ecologically and taxonomically diverse group accounting for roughly a fifth of
mammalian diversity worldwide. Many of the threats bats face (eg, habitat loss, bushmeat …

The spread and evolution of rabies virus: conquering new frontiers

CR Fisher, DG Streicker, MJ Schnell - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2018 - nature.com
Rabies is a lethal zoonotic disease that is caused by lyssaviruses, most often rabies virus.
Despite control efforts, sporadic outbreaks in wildlife populations are largely unpredictable …

Global patterns in coronavirus diversity

SJ Anthony, CK Johnson, DJ Greig, S Kramer… - Virus …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Since the emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and
Middle East Respiratory Syndrom Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) it has become increasingly …

Effects of culling vampire bats on the spatial spread and spillover of rabies virus

M Viana, JA Benavides, A Broos, D Ibañez Loayza… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Controlling pathogen circulation in wildlife reservoirs is notoriously challenging. In Latin
America, vampire bats have been culled for decades in hopes of mitigating lethal rabies …

Multiple mortality events in bats: a global review

TJ O'Shea, PM Cryan, DTS Hayman… - Mammal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Despite conservation concerns for many species of bats, factors causing mortality in bats
have not been reviewed since 1970. Here, we review and qualitatively describe trends in the …

Linking anthropogenic resources to wildlife–pathogen dynamics: a review and meta‐analysis

DJ Becker, DG Streicker, S Altizer - Ecology letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanisation and agriculture cause declines for many wildlife, but some species benefit from
novel resources, especially food, provided in human‐dominated habitats. Resulting shifts in …

Guidelines for communicating about bats to prevent persecution in the time of COVID-19

D MacFarlane, R Rocha - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
While the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on human health and
national economies, conservationists are struggling to prevent misguided persecution of …

Sociality, density‐dependence and microclimates determine the persistence of populations suffering from a novel fungal disease, white‐nose syndrome

KE Langwig, WF Frick, JT Bried, AC Hicks… - Ecology …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Disease has caused striking declines in wildlife and threatens numerous species with
extinction. Theory suggests that the ecology and density‐dependence of transmission …

Oral vaccination of wildlife using a vaccinia–rabies-glycoprotein recombinant virus vaccine (RABORAL V-RG®): a global review

J Maki, AL Guiot, M Aubert, B Brochier, F Cliquet… - Veterinary …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract RABORAL V-RG® is an oral rabies vaccine bait that contains an attenuated
(“modified-live”) recombinant vaccinia virus vector vaccine expressing the rabies virus …