In the light of the urgency raised by the COVID-19 pandemic, global investment in wildlife
virology is likely to increase, and new surveillance programmes will identify hundreds of …

Virus pandemics have happened, are happening and will happen again. In recent decades,
the rate of zoonotic viral spillover into humans has accelerated, mirroring the expansion of …

To date, limited genetic changes in the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) genome have been described. Here, we report a 382-nucleotide (nt) deletion …

The transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans is called “zoonotic spillover”.
Most human infectious diseases (60-75%) are derived from pathogens that originally …

The spread of COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has been growing since its
first identification in December 2019. The publishing of the first SARS-CoV-2 genome made …

The human population has doubled in the last 50 years from about 3.7 billion to
approximately 7.8 billion. With this rapid expansion, more people live in close contact with …

The transmission of viruses between different host species is a major source of emerging
diseases and is of particular concern in the case of zoonotic transmission from mammals to …

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is more widespread in
animals than previously thought, and it may be able to infect a wider range of domestic and …

Host innate immune sensors are vital for the initial detection of pathogen infection. Such
sensors thus need to constantly adapt in escalating evolutionary arms races with pathogens …

Infectious diseases continue to impose unpredictable burdens on global health and
economies, a subject that requires constant research and updates. In this sense, the …