Infectious Diseases from Nature: Mechanisms of Viral Emergence and Persistence

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Comments on the life and contributions of Robert E. Shope.- Virus perpetuation in populations: biological variables that determine persistence or eradication.- The virus-immunity ecosystem.- Host range, amplification and arboviral disease emergence.- Regulation of Rodent-Borne viruses in the natural host: implications for human disease.- Population dynamics of RNA viruses: the essential contribution of mutant spectra.- Control of arbovirus diseases: is the vector the weak link?.- Pathogenesis of Rift Valley fever virus in mosquitoes - tracheal conduits & the basal lamina as an extra-cellular barrier.- The virulence of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus: unraveling the enigma.- The spread of the H5N1 bird flu epidemic in Asia in 2004.- Transient or occult HIV infections may occur more frequently than progressive infections: changing the paradigm about HIV persistence.- Ehrlichia under our noses and no one notices.- The role of reverse genetics systems in determining filovirus pathogenicity.- Structural biology of old world and new world alphaviruses.- Species barriers in prion diseases - brief review.- Academic science and the business of vaccines.- Emerging infectious diseases: the public's view of the problem and what should be expected from the public health community.