We review the literature to distinguish reports of vertebrate wildlife disease emergence with
sufficient evidence, enabling a robust assessment of emergence drivers. For potentially …

The impacts of pathogen emergence in naïve hosts can be catastrophic, and pathogen
spread now ranks as a major threat to biodiversity. However, pathogen impacts can persist …

Could some vaccines drive the evolution of more virulent pathogens? Conventional wisdom
is that natural selection will remove highly lethal pathogens if host death greatly reduces …

The virulence–transmission trade-off hypothesis proposed more than 30 years ago is the
cornerstone in the study of host–parasite co-evolution. This hypothesis rests on the premise …

Disease dynamics during pathogen invasion and establishment determine the impacts of
disease on host populations and determine the mechanisms of host persistence. Temporal …

The health and economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic vary across space because
social, economic, health and ecological factors are also spatially variable. Social …

Infectious diseases are economically detrimental to aquaculture, and with continued
expansion and intensification of aquaculture, the importance of managing infectious …

A novel apicomplexan parasite was serendipitously discovered in horses at the United
States–Mexico border. Phylogenetic analysis based on 18S rDNA showed the erythrocyte …

Honeybee declines are a serious threat to global agricultural security and productivity.
Although multiple factors contribute to these declines, parasites are a key driver. Disease …

Animal hosts can adapt to emerging infectious disease through both disease resistance,
which decreases pathogen numbers, and disease tolerance, which limits damage during …