Pandemics are large-scale outbreaks of infectious disease that can greatly increase morbidity
and mortality over a wide geographic area and cause significant economic, social, and …

Studies on the burden of human monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
were last conducted from 1981 to 1986. Since then, the population that is immunologically …

We report unbiased metagenomic detection of chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Ebola virus (EBOV),
and hepatitis C virus (HCV) from four human blood samples by MinION nanopore …

Human monkeypox is an endemic disease in rain-forested regions of central Democratic
Republic of Congo. We report fetal outcomes for 1 of 4 pregnant women who participated in an …

… We detected 4 distinct lineages and a deletion that resulted in gene loss in 10 (16.7%)
samples and that seemed to correlate with human-to-human transmission (p = 0.0544). The data …

Deep sequencing was used to discover a novel rhabdovirus (Bas-Congo virus, or BASV)
associated with a 2009 outbreak of 3 human cases of acute hemorrhagic fever in Mangala …

Although the incidence of human monkeypox has greatly increased in Central Africa over
the last decade, resources for surveillance remain extremely limited. We conducted a …

Coronaviruses play an important role as pathogens of humans and animals, and the emergence
of epidemics like SARS, MERS and COVID-19 is closely linked to zoonotic transmission …

… In univariate analysis of activities, forest visits, hunting, butchering/skinning, as well as
exposure to rodents and duikers were significantly associated with seropositivity in χ 2 analysis (P …

Climate change is predicted to result in changes in the geographic ranges and local prevalence
of infectious diseases, either through direct effects on the pathogen, or indirectly through …