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Disease specialists identify post-Ebola threats
Scientists to assemble a rogues? gallery of viruses likely to spark the next international public-health crisis.
Erika Check Hayden
07 December 2015
As West Africans try to bring the calamitous Ebola outbreak to an end, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called scientists and doctors to Geneva, Switzerland, on 8 and 9 December to discuss which infectious disease is likely spark the next pandemic...
Other Ebola species or Marburg virus
...two other species of Ebola virus and the closely related Marburg virus are lethal in people and have caused recent outbreaks; vaccines and drugs against these other viruses have not progressed far in clinical development.
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and related viruses
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Researchers are developing vaccines for camels and for people and are concerned about the danger that MERS might spread to millions of camels in Africa. ?This could bust out of the Arabian peninsula tomorrow, end up in East Africa, and go around the world,? says Michael Osterholm
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Influenza
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Researchers worry that genes will jump between flu viruses that infect pigs and chickens to produce a new, lethal and highly transmissible strain ? a scenario made more likely by vast poultry and pig farms around the world.
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Nipah and Hendra viruses
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Nipah and a sister virus, Hendra, have killed hundreds of people in numerous outbreaks in Australia and Southeast Asia since they were first identified in the 1990s. Antibody drugs have been developed to help monkeys to survive infection with Hendra1 and Nipah2 viruses, and one for Hendra has been used to treat people in Australia. But these therapies might not work if new variants of these viruses emerge.
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The unknown
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Some of the worst outbreaks in recent history have been caused by pathogens that were not known to science until they triggered lethal epidemics.
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http://www.nature.com/news/disease-specialists-identify-post-ebola-threats-1.18952
Scientists to assemble a rogues? gallery of viruses likely to spark the next international public-health crisis.
Erika Check Hayden
07 December 2015
As West Africans try to bring the calamitous Ebola outbreak to an end, the World Health Organization (WHO) has called scientists and doctors to Geneva, Switzerland, on 8 and 9 December to discuss which infectious disease is likely spark the next pandemic...
Other Ebola species or Marburg virus
...two other species of Ebola virus and the closely related Marburg virus are lethal in people and have caused recent outbreaks; vaccines and drugs against these other viruses have not progressed far in clinical development.
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and related viruses
...
Researchers are developing vaccines for camels and for people and are concerned about the danger that MERS might spread to millions of camels in Africa. ?This could bust out of the Arabian peninsula tomorrow, end up in East Africa, and go around the world,? says Michael Osterholm
...
Influenza
...
Researchers worry that genes will jump between flu viruses that infect pigs and chickens to produce a new, lethal and highly transmissible strain ? a scenario made more likely by vast poultry and pig farms around the world.
...
Nipah and Hendra viruses
...
Nipah and a sister virus, Hendra, have killed hundreds of people in numerous outbreaks in Australia and Southeast Asia since they were first identified in the 1990s. Antibody drugs have been developed to help monkeys to survive infection with Hendra1 and Nipah2 viruses, and one for Hendra has been used to treat people in Australia. But these therapies might not work if new variants of these viruses emerge.
...
The unknown
...
Some of the worst outbreaks in recent history have been caused by pathogens that were not known to science until they triggered lethal epidemics.
...
http://www.nature.com/news/disease-specialists-identify-post-ebola-threats-1.18952