Influenza A viruses cause pandemics when they cross between species and an
antigenically novel virus acquires the ability to infect and transmit between these new hosts …

The influenza virus is a global threat to human health causing unpredictable yet recurring
pandemics, the last four emerging over the course of a hundred years. As our knowledge of …

Ten years ago, a correspondence [1, 2], signed by more than 70 championed 'A global
initiative on sharing avian flu data'(GISAID)[3], leading to the GISAID Initiative in 2008. What …

The majority of human emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, with viruses that originate
in wild mammals of particular concern (for example, HIV, Ebola and SARS),,. Understanding …

Zoonotic spillover, which is the transmission of a pathogen from a vertebrate animal to a
human, presents a global public health burden but is a poorly understood phenomenon …

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 …

How virulence evolves after a virus jumps to a new host species is central to disease
emergence. Our current understanding of virulence evolution is based on insights drawn …

Bats, rodents, and shrews are the most important animal sources of human infectious
diseases. However, the evolution and transmission of viruses among them remain largely …

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is a zoonotic virus from camels
causing significant mortality and morbidity in humans in the Arabian Peninsula. The …

The study of virus disease emergence, whether it can be predicted and how it might be
prevented, has become a major research topic in biomedicine. Here we show that efforts to …