Ebola virus disease

ST Jacob, I Crozier, WA Fischer, A Hewlett… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is a severe and frequently lethal disease caused by Ebola virus
(EBOV). EVD outbreaks typically start from a single case of probable zoonotic transmission …

The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move

I Abubakar, RW Aldridge, D Devakumar, M Orcutt… - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary With one billion people on the move or having moved in 2018, migration
is a global reality, which has also become a political lightning rod. Although estimates …

The current and future global distribution and population at risk of dengue

JP Messina, OJ Brady, N Golding, MUG Kraemer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral infection that has spread throughout the tropical world
over the past 60 years and now affects over half the world's population. The geographical …

The science of the host–virus network

GF Albery, DJ Becker, L Brierley, CE Brook… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Better methods to predict and prevent the emergence of zoonotic viruses could support
future efforts to reduce the risk of epidemics. We propose a network science framework for …

Habitat fragmentation, biodiversity loss and the risk of novel infectious disease emergence

DA Wilkinson, JC Marshall… - Journal of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The number of microbes on Earth may be 1030, exceeding all other diversity. A small
number of these can infect people and cause disease. The diversity of parasitic organisms …

Outbreak analytics: a developing data science for informing the response to emerging pathogens

JA Polonsky, A Baidjoe, ZN Kamvar… - … of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite continued efforts to improve health systems worldwide, emerging pathogen
epidemics remain a major public health concern. Effective response to such outbreaks relies …

Prevention and management of dementia: a priority for public health

H Frankish, R Horton - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
largely driven by population ageing. Dementia causes not only disability and dependency
for individuals affected by the disorder, but can also have a profoundly detrimental effect on …

A dynamic neural network model for predicting risk of Zika in real time

M Akhtar, MUG Kraemer, LM Gardner - BMC medicine, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Background In 2015, the Zika virus spread from Brazil throughout the Americas,
posing an unprecedented challenge to the public health community. During the epidemic …

Predicting the evolution of the Lassa virus endemic area and population at risk over the next decades

R Klitting, LE Kafetzopoulou, W Thiery, G Dudas… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lassa fever is a severe viral hemorrhagic fever caused by a zoonotic virus that repeatedly
spills over to humans from its rodent reservoirs. It is currently not known how climate and …

Impacts of environmental and socio-economic factors on emergence and epidemic potential of Ebola in Africa

DW Redding, PM Atkinson, AA Cunningham… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent outbreaks of animal-borne emerging infectious diseases have likely been
precipitated by a complex interplay of changing ecological, epidemiological and socio …