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Zoonotic Viral Infections and Climate Change
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Zoonotic Viral Infections and Climate Change

A special issue of Pathogens (ISSN 2076-0817). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Pathogens".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 6094

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kirk Douglas

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Centre for Biosecurity Studies, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Cave Hill, St. Michael 11000, Barbados
Interests: biosecurity; zoonoses; climate change; wildlife; infectious diseases; One Health
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Dr. Byron Martina

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Department of Viroscience, Postgraduate School Molecular Medicine, Erasmus University Medical Center, Wytemaweg 80, 3015 CN Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Interests: viral pathogenesis; vaccine development
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Dr. Marquita Gittens-St. Hilaire

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Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, St. Michael BB11000, Barbados
Interests: molecular diagnostics of infectious diseases; arboviruses; leptospirosis; epidemiology of multidrug resistant pathogens; genotypic and phenotypic characteristics
Dr. Gilberto Sabino-Santos

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School of Medicine, Tulane University, 1430 Tulane Ave Rm. 5718, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA
Interests: virology; viral zoonoses; viral ecology; viral evolution; virus-host interaction; One Health; applied ecology
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The threat of viral zoonotic infections has been underscored by the current COVID-19 pandemic and the suggested links of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its emergence from a bat reservoir. Simultaneously, the world faces an unprecedented crisis at an increasing scale in both intensity and frequency with the ravages of climate change. This includes severe weather systems, floods, droughts, and wildfires, all of which can severely impact on human health through a change or shift in viral zoonotic disease dynamics. Viral zoonoses and climate change are currently viewed as perhaps the most dangerous natural threats to global human health. A better understanding of the role of climate change in the transmission dynamics of viral zoonotic diseases is greatly needed.

This Special Issue seeks all types of manuscripts (e.g., reviews, research articles, and short communications) on viral zoonotic infections and the related impacts of climate change. The topics may include (but are not restricted to) virus–host interaction, vector-borne diseases, virus ecology, cross-species transmission, climate–infectious disease modelling, social factors, tourism, travel and trade, natural disasters, heat waves, dust, brush fires, droughts, flooding, viral zoonotic diseases, built environment, vector-borne diseases, and viral disease ecology.

We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Dr. Kirk Douglas
Dr. Byron Martina
Dr. Marquita Gittens-St. Hilaire
Dr. Gilberto Sabino-Santos
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Pathogens is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • viruses
  • viral zoonoses
  • climate
  • vector-borne diseases
  • emerging infections
  • disease ecology
  • One Health
  • flooding
  • drought

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Systematic Review
Influence of Climatic Factors on Human Hantavirus Infections in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic Review
by Kirk Osmond Douglas, Karl Payne, Gilberto Sabino-Santos, Jr. and John Agard
Pathogens 2022, 11(1), 15; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/pathogens11010015 - 23 Dec 2021
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Background: With the current climate change crisis and its influence on infectious disease transmission there is an increased desire to understand its impact on infectious diseases globally. Hantaviruses are found worldwide, causing infectious diseases such as haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and [...] Read more.
Background: With the current climate change crisis and its influence on infectious disease transmission there is an increased desire to understand its impact on infectious diseases globally. Hantaviruses are found worldwide, causing infectious diseases such as haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) and hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS)/hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) in tropical regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). These regions are inherently vulnerable to climate change impacts, infectious disease outbreaks and natural disasters. Hantaviruses are zoonotic viruses present in multiple rodent hosts resident in Neotropical ecosystems within LAC and are involved in hantavirus transmission. Methods: We conducted a systematic review to assess the association of climatic factors with human hantavirus infections in the LAC region. Literature searches were conducted on MEDLINE and Web of Science databases for published studies according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) criteria. The inclusion criteria included at least eight human hantavirus cases, at least one climatic factor and study from > 1 LAC geographical location. Results: In total, 383 papers were identified within the search criteria, but 13 studies met the inclusion criteria ranging from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia and Panama in Latin America and a single study from Barbados in the Caribbean. Multiple mathematical models were utilized in the selected studies with varying power to generate robust risk and case estimates of human hantavirus infections linked to climatic factors. Strong evidence of hantavirus disease association with precipitation and habitat type factors were observed, but mixed evidence was observed for temperature and humidity. Conclusions: The interaction of climate and hantavirus diseases in LAC is likely complex due to the unknown identity of all vertebrate host reservoirs, circulation of multiple hantavirus strains, agricultural practices, climatic changes and challenged public health systems. There is an increasing need for more detailed systematic research on the influence of climate and other co-related social, abiotic, and biotic factors on infectious diseases in LAC to understand the complexity of vector-borne disease transmission in the Neotropics. Full article
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