Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs), particularly zoonoses, represent a significant threat to
global health. Emergence is often driven by anthropogenic activity (eg, travel, land use …

Bats are hosts to a range of zoonotic and potentially zoonotic pathogens. Human activities
that increase exposure to bats will likely increase the opportunity for infections to spill over in …

Here we examine the question of whether bats are truly unique as viral reservoirs as
compared to other mammalian hosts. First, we examine what criteria are typically used to …

Identifying virus characteristics associated with the largest public health impacts on human
populations is critical to informing “zoonotic risk” assessments and surveillance strategies …

An increasingly asked question is' can we confidently link bats with emerging viruses?'. No,
or not yet, is the qualified answer based on the evidence available. Although more than 200 …

Progress in combatting zoonoses that emerge from wildlife is often constrained by limited
knowledge of the biology of pathogens within reservoir hosts. We focus on the host …

Viral discovery studies in bats have increased dramatically over the past decade, yet a
rigorous synthesis of the published data is lacking. We extract and analyze data from 93 …

Repeated emergence of zoonotic viruses from bat reservoirs into human populations
demands predictive approaches to preemptively identify virus‐carrying bat species. Here …

Bats are the natural reservoirs of a number of high-impact viral zoonoses. We present a
quantitative analysis to address the hypothesis that bats are unique in their propensity to …

Bat research networks and viral surveillance are assumed to be at odds due to seemingly
conflicting research priorities. Yet human threats that contribute to declines in bat …