Infectious disease outbreaks play an important role in global morbidity and mortality. Real-
time epidemic forecasting provides an opportunity to predict geographic disease spread as …

Chikungunya fever is an acute febrile illness caused by the chikungunya virus (CHIKV),
which is transmitted to humans by Aedes mosquitoes. Although chikungunya fever is rarely …

Background Predicting when and where pathogens will emerge is difficult, yet, as shown by
the recent Ebola and Zika epidemics, effective and timely responses are key. It is therefore …

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to model spatial heterogeneity for epidemic
spreading, which combines the relevance of transport proximity in human movement and the …

Human mobility is an important driver of geographic spread of infectious pathogens.
Detailed information about human movements during outbreaks are, however, difficult to …

The global health landscape has been persistently challenged by the emergence and re-
emergence of infectious diseases. Traditional epidemiological models, rooted in the early …

Background Approaches in malaria risk mapping continue to advance in scope with the
advent of geostatistical techniques spanning both the spatial and temporal domains. A …

Biogeography is an implicit and fundamental component of almost every dimension of
modern biology, from natural selection and speciation to invasive species and biodiversity …

Background: Debates over whether climate change could lead to the amplification of Lyme
disease (LD) risk in the future have received much attention. Although recent large-scale …