Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) is a new emerging infectious disease that was firstly detected in the Middle East[1-3]. The infection was firstly confined within the Middle East. The first case was from Saudi Arabia in 2012. As noted by Banik et al.[4], since its discovery in 2012, MERS coronavirus has reached 23 countries affecting about 1 100 people, including a dozen children, and cl...

The emerging of new H7N9 influenza virus infection in February 2013 brings attention of world health scientists on its possibility to cause worldwide pandemic. The new H7N9 bird flu is a new disease manifesting with acute respiratory features plus additional atypical clinical manifestations. Of those atypical clinical features, neurological presentation is an interesting issue. This work presen...

Lead contamination in the drinking water of a US Rust Belt city seems to have little in common with a mosquito-borne viral outbreak creating global infectious disease concern. However, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has important similarities to the Zika virus in South America, relevant to the field of disaster medicine and public health preparedness. As we face emerging infectious diseas...

It is 10 years since severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) emerged, and East and Southeast Asia retain a reputation as a hot spot of emerging infectious diseases. The region is certainly a hot spot of socioeconomic and environmental change, and although some changes (e.g., urbanization and agricultural intensification) may reduce the probability of emerging infectious diseases, the effect of...

BACKGROUND Zoonoses account for the most commonly reported emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is limited knowledge on how pastoral communities perceive zoonoses in relation to their livelihoods, culture and their wider ecology. This study was carried out to explore local knowledge and perceptions on zoonoses among pastoralists in Tanzania. METHO...

The global development of improved transport infrastructure has contributed to increased international movement of people and goods. Consequently, the risk of pathogen transfer between countries or even between continents is increased. In response to global climate changes, diseases endemic in certain areas, such as bluetongue and African swine fever, are showing a tendency to move or extend to...

14" Methods to mitigate the impacts of emerging infectious diseases affecting wildlife are 15" urgently needed to combat loss of biodiversity. However, the successful mitigation of wildlife 16" pathogens in situ has rarely occurred. Indeed, most strategies for combating wildlife diseases 17" remain theoretical, despite the wealth of information available for combating infections in 18" livestoc...

EmErging infectious diseases (EiDs) range from novel zoonotic infections to infective organisms with new patterns of antimicrobial resistance. in the modern age, the speed at which infections can spread globally and transition into deadly pandemics means that surveillance must be able to monitor infections that have the potential to cause outbreaks and also to capture unknown threats that may e...

Arboviruses are emerging infectious diseases with the ability to expand geographically and rapidly affect large populations. The recent epidemic caused by the Zika virus in the Americas and congenital Zika syndrome associated with maternal infection has called out attention to the importance of studying arboviruses during pregnancy. This is a review on selected arboviruses infections during ges...