The costs and benefits of primary prevention of zoonotic pandemics

AS Bernstein, AW Ando, T Loch-Temzelides… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
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 …

Artificial intelligence transforms the future of health care

N Noorbakhsh-Sabet, R Zand, Y Zhang… - The American journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Life sciences researchers using artificial intelligence (AI) are under pressure to innovate
faster than ever. Large, multilevel, and integrated data sets offer the promise of unlocking …

The COVID-19 pandemic in the African continent

G Bwire, AR Ario, P Eyu, F Ocom, JF Wamala, KA Kusi… - BMC medicine, 2022 - Springer
In December 2019, a new coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2
(SARS-CoV-2) and associated disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), was …

Linkages between environmental issues and zoonotic diseases: with reference to COVID-19 pandemic

J Mishra, P Mishra, NK Arora - Environmental Sustainability, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
(SARS) coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has taken mankind by surprise with various …

An ecological framework for modeling the geography of disease transmission

EE Johnson, LE Escobar… - Trends in ecology & …, 2019 - cell.com
Ecological niche modeling (ENM) is widely employed in ecology to predict species' potential
geographic distributions in relation to their environmental constraints and is rapidly …

Marburg virus disease outbreak in Kween District Uganda, 2017: Epidemiological and laboratory findings

L Nyakarahuka, TR Shoemaker… - PLoS neglected …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Introduction In October 2017, a blood sample from a resident of Kween District, Eastern
Uganda, tested positive for Marburg virus. Within 24 hour of confirmation, a rapid outbreak …

Spatial and temporal distribution of infectious disease epidemics, disasters and other potential public health emergencies in the World Health Organisation Africa …

AO Talisuna, EA Okiro, AA Yahaya, M Stephen… - Globalization and …, 2020 - Springer
Background Emerging and re-emerging diseases with pandemic potential continue to
challenge fragile health systems in Africa, creating enormous human and economic toll. To …

Assessment of the outbreak risk, mapping and infection behavior of COVID-19: Application of the autoregressive integrated-moving average (ARIMA) and polynomial …

HR Pourghasemi, S Pouyan, Z Farajzadeh… - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Infectious disease outbreaks pose a significant threat to human health worldwide. The
outbreak of pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a global health …

Applying species distribution models in public health research by predicting snakebite risk using venomous snakes' habitat suitability as an indicating factor

M Yousefi, A Kafash, A Khani, N Nabati - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Snakebite envenoming is an important public health problem in Iran, despite its risk not
being quantified. This study aims to use venomous snakes' habitat suitability as an indicator …

Feasibility of virtual reality based training for optimising COVID-19 case handling in Uganda

P Buyego, E Katwesigye, G Kebirungi… - BMC Medical …, 2022 - Springer
Background Epidemics and pandemics are causing high morbidity and mortality on a still-
evolving scale exemplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Infection prevention and control …