Re-emergence of chikungunya virus, a mosquito-transmitted pathogen, is of serious public
health concern. In the past 15 years, after decades of infrequent, sporadic outbreaks, the …

Arthropod-borne viruses (arboviruses) are important causes of human disease nearly
worldwide. All arboviruses circulate among wild animals, and many cause disease after …

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) causes a major public health problem. In 2004, CHIKV began
an unprecedented global expansion and has been responsible for epidemics in Africa, Asia …

In the past decade, chikungunya—a virus transmitted by Aedes spp mosquitoes—has re-
emerged in Africa, southern and southeastern Asia, and the Indian Ocean Islands as the …

One of the biggest threats to the survival of many plant and animal species is the destruction
or fragmentation of their natural habitats. The conservation of landscape connections, where …

Chikungunya is an arboviral disease transmitted by aedes mosquitoes. The virus was first
isolated in 1953 in Tanzania. Chikungunya virus is a member of the genus Alphavirus and …

Anthropogenic environmental change is often implicated in the emergence of new zoonoses
from wildlife; however, there is little mechanistic understanding of these causal links. Here …

In this review, we summarize the researches on animal reservoirs of the SARS coronavirus
(SARS-CoV). Masked palm civets were suspected as the origin of the SARS outbreak in …

Although the acute manifestations of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) illness are well-
documented, few data exist about the long-term rheumatic outcomes of CHIKV-infected …

In 1998, an outbreak of acute encephalitis with high mortality rates among pig handlers in
Malaysia led to the discovery of a novel paramyxovirus named Nipah virus. A …