Animal and Human Respiratory Viruses—Causes of the Next Pandemic? Volume 2

Dear Colleagues,

Many have said that “Another pandemic is inevitable", but what form will it take? The most “recognized” previous pandemics have been caused by influenza viruses, but other viruses such as smallpox, polio, tuberculosis, and HIV have also caused global infections and can also be regarded as pandemics. What determines whether a pathogen causes a pandemic? Tropical infections including malaria, dengue, Zika virus, and chikungunya viruses are limited by the geographical range of their mosquito vectors, but this is predicted to expand with climate change.

This Special Issue explores various themes around how to detect and prepare for the next pandemic, including (but not limited to) the host–virus relationship, human and animal virological surveillance and diagnostic testing, the use of viral sequencing and phylogenetics to track viral evolution, and the investigation of human and animal outbreaks to detect new viruses with pandemic potential.

Dr. Julian Tang
Guest Editor

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• respiratory viruses
• pandemic potential
• evolution
• transmission
• diagnosis and detection
• infection control
• contact tracing
• non-pharmaceutical interventions
• treatment
• vaccines

• Animal and Human Respiratory Viruses—Causes of the Next Pandemic? in Viruses (9 articles)