The lives lost and economic costs of viral zoonotic pandemics have steadily increased over
the past century. Prominent policymakers have promoted plans that argue the best ways to …

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 …

Background Rabies is a notoriously underreported and neglected disease of low-income
countries. This study aims to estimate the public health and economic burden of rabies …

Zoonoses are diseases and infections naturally transmitted between humans and vertebrate
animals. Over the years, zoonoses have become increasingly significant threats to global …

BACKGROUND Despite ongoing advances in biomedicine, infectious diseases remain a
major threat to human health, economic sustainability, and wildlife conservation. This is in …

Dog-mediated rabies kills tens of thousands of people each year in India, representing one
third of the estimated global rabies burden. Whilst the World Health Organization (WHO) …

The scientific study of networks-computer, social, and biological-has received an enormous
amount of interest in recent years. However, the network approach has been applied to the …

Background Canine rabies causes many thousands of human deaths every year in Africa,
and continues to increase throughout much of the continent. Methodology/Principal Findings …

Simple Summary Domestic dogs are abundant worldwide—as owned pets, unowned strays,
and feral animals. High numbers of free-roaming dogs can be a concern because of the …

Since the identification and imprisonment of “Typhoid Mary”, a woman who infected at least
47 people with typhoid in the early 1900s, epidemiologists have recognized that …