Emergent Disease

A condition or infection which is unrecognized or underreported, through ignorance of the nosology’s range of clinical expression and/or the lack of a reliable test to identify its presence

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Eosinophilic meningitis caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis: an emergent disease in Brazil.

Angiostrongylus cantonensis Infection of Central Nervous System, Guiana Shield

This paper describes the clinical signs and histopathologic findings associated with an emergent disease associated with Trichomonas gallinae infections in free-ranging house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) in California.

J Zoo Wild Med.: Clinical signs and histopathologic findings associated with a newly recognized protozoal disease (Trichomonas gallinae) in free-ranging house finches (Carpodacus mexicanus)

Amphibian chytrid fungus is an emergent disease that is wiping out amphibians in many areas of the world including Australia, Africa, parts of Asia, and the Americas.

Fight for the frogs: an in-depth look at the amphibian crisis with Dr. Jennifer Pramuk, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo. Second in a 2-part series

Transformative technologies and emergent disease (for human and non-human life) have enabled change to occur to cultural and natural environments at a speed that makes adaptation difficult, if not impossible.

Solastalgia: environmental damage has made it possible to be homesick without leaving home

The ecology and evolutionary history of an emergent disease: hantavirus pulmonary syndrome.

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome--five states, 2006

It has become an emergent disease in North America, where it was detected for the first time in 1999 and became epidemic shortly thereafter (1).

Human West Nile virus infection, Catalonia, Spain

Identification of human and rodent hantavirus infection in the Amazonas State adds this emergent disease to our differential diagnoses of febrile tropical diseases and to our syndromic surveillance approach for febrile respiratory diseases.

Human hantavirus infection, Brazilian Amazon

Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), an emergent disease caused by New World hantaviruses, is associated with case-fatality ratios of 30% to 50%.

Neutralizing antibodies in survivors of sin nombre and andes hantavirus infection

Identifying the bat as an enemy will only increase the dangers of more emergent diseases. As the host population is thinned, stress will alter the state of the enzootic reservoir and precipitate spillovers.

Leave bats alone, let's find a cure for Nipah

PRESAGED has also shown to provide early warning on entirely novel pathogens (i.e., pathogens unavailable for algorithm training), suggesting that this approach will be robust in detecting emergent diseases, such as SARS/MERS or novel flu strains, well before new training data are available.

Exposure Detection to a Pathogen

[10.] Astakhov TA, Zielke SV, Smoke TV, Astakhov Y (2012) Relevance of emergent diseases. Biol Chem 3: 212-216.

Prevalence of causative agents of emergent food zoonotic diseases in animals, animal origin products and environmental objects