CIDRAP

Review of 200 novel human viruses over a century a reminder that pathogen emergence isn’t rare

A systematic review of more than 200 studies published in BMC Infectious Diseases on human viruses over more than a century ...
Yale Environment 360

Infection control: How a pathogen survives a hostile environment

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Accelerating the Use of Pathogen Genomics and Metagenomics in Public Health: A Workshop

The Forum on Microbial Threats will host a public workshop to examine how genomics technologies have been applied to disease surveillance and response and identify potential opportunities for broader ...
The Conversation

What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’

Allen Cheng receives funding from the Australian government for respiratory virus surveillance, and from the National Health and Medical Research Council. He is a member of the Communicable Diseases ...