Estimated transmissibility and impact of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 in England

NG Davies, S Abbott, RC Barnard, CI Jarvis… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Several novel variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes COVID-19, emerged in late 2020. One of these, Variant …

Are we overestimating risk of enteric pathogen spillover from wild birds to humans?

OM Smith, WE Snyder, JP Owen - Biological Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Enteric illnesses remain the second largest source of communicable diseases worldwide,
and wild birds are suspected sources for human infection. This has led to efforts to reduce …

Estimated transmissibility and severity of novel SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern 202012/01 in England

NG Davies, S Abbott, RC Barnard, CI Jarvis… - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
A novel SARS-CoV-2 variant, VOC 202012/01, emerged in southeast England in November
2020 and is rapidly spreading towards fixation. Using a variety of statistical and dynamic …

Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health

RK Plowright, JK Reaser, H Locke… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The rapid global spread and human health impacts of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes
COVID-19, show humanity's vulnerability to zoonotic disease pandemics. Although …

Towards an ecosystem model of infectious disease

JM Hassell, T Newbold, AP Dobson… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Increasingly intimate associations between human society and the natural environment are
driving the emergence of novel pathogens, with devastating consequences for humans and …

[HTML][HTML] A One Health framework for exploring zoonotic interactions demonstrated through a case study

A Desvars-Larrive, AE Vogl, GA Puspitarani… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The eco-epidemiology of zoonoses is often oversimplified to host-pathogen interactions
while findings derived from global datasets are rarely directly transferable to smaller-scale …

Ecological conditions predict the intensity of Hendra virus excretion over space and time from bat reservoir hosts

DJ Becker, P Eby, W Madden, AJ Peel… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ecological conditions experienced by wildlife reservoirs affect infection dynamics and
thus the distribution of pathogen excreted into the environment. This spatial and temporal …

Mosquito and primate ecology predict human risk of yellow fever virus spillover in Brazil

ML Childs, N Nova, J Colvin… - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Many (re) emerging infectious diseases in humans arise from pathogen spillover from
wildlife or livestock, and accurately predicting pathogen spillover is an important public …

Dynamic and integrative approaches to understanding pathogen spillover

DJ Becker, AD Washburne… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
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The problem of scale in the prediction and management of pathogen spillover

DJ Becker, AD Washburne… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Disease emergence events, epidemics and pandemics all underscore the need to predict
zoonotic pathogen spillover. Because cross-species transmission is inherently hierarchical …