Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases

The risk of epidemics originating from wild animals demands close monitoring of emerging infectious disease (EID) events and their predictors. Here, the authors update a global database of EID events, analyze their environmental and biological correlates, and present a new global hotspot map of zoon...

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Main Authors: Toph Allen, Kris A. Murray, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Stephen S. Morse, Carlo Rondinini, Moreno Di Marco, Nathan Breit, Kevin J. Olival, Peter Daszak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00923-8