The spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza into Asia, Europe, and Africa has resulted in enormous impacts on the poultry industry and presents an important threat to human health. The pathways by which the virus has and will spread between countries have been debated extensively, but have yet to be analyzed comprehensively and quantitatively. We integrated data on phylogenetic relatio...

BACKGROUND Total domestic and international funding for malaria is inadequate to achieve WHO global targets in burden reduction by 2030. We describe the trends of investments in malaria-related research in sub-Saharan Africa and compare investment with national disease burden to identify areas of funding strength and potentially neglected populations. We also considered funding for malaria cont...

A migrant is defined as a person who lives temporarily or permanently in a country in which they were not born. The International Organisation for Migration estimates that 3% (192 million) of the world’s population lives outside the country of their birth. This figure suggests that one in every 33 people in the world is a migrant. Globalisation, economic necessity, conflict or natural disasters...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently launched the “End TB Strategy” [1] and, in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society, launched the framework for tuberculosis (TB) elimination in low-incidence countries [2]. Both documents focus on ending the global TB epidemic by 2035, through stimulating collaborative actions at country level and increased cooperation between high and lo...

We construct a simple firm-based automata model for global economic inter-dependence of countries using modern notions of self-organized criticality and recently developed dynamical-renormalization-group methods (e.g., L. Pietronero et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 72(11):1690 (1994); J. Hasty and K. Wiesenfeld, Phys. Rev. Lett., 81(8):1722, (1998)). We demonstrate how extremely strong statistical cor...

Countries are classified on the basis of endemicity of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection into high (8% or more), intermediate (27%) or low (less than 2%) incidence countries. The prevalence of chronic HBV infection in India ranges from 2% to 10% as shown by different studies (1, 2, 3). India therefore comes under the intermediate to high endemicity category. HBV infection is predominantly acqui...

Diabetes mellitus is among ten leading cause of death in high-income countries and it is increasing rapidly in countries undergoing industrialization. Diabetes alone claims on the average around 8% of total health budgets in developed countries [1]. Complications include diabetic retinopathy, renal failure, heart disease, diabetic neuropathy and foot ulceration and amputation. More than 90% of ...

Scheltema NM, Gentile A, Lucion F, et al. Global respiratory syncytial virusassociated mortality in young children (RSV GOLD): a retrospective case series. Lancet Glob Health 2017; 5: e984–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214109X(17)30344-3—The following sentence in the Findings section of the Summary should have read: Median age for RSV-related deaths was 5·0 months (IQR 2·3–11·0) in low-income...

We announce here the complete genome sequence (coding and noncoding) of the bluetongue virus (BTV) serotype 8, isolated from a ram in Allier department, France, 2015. Sequence analysis confirms the reemergence of the BTV-8 strain that previously circulated in France until 2009 and other European countries until 2010.