Searching for the source of Ebola: the elusive factors driving its spillover into humans during the West African outbreak of 2013–2016 (2019)
Book Chapter
Kock, R. A., Begovoeva, M., Ansumana, R., & Suluku, R. (2019). Searching for the source of Ebola: the elusive factors driving its spillover into humans during the West African outbreak of 2013–2016. . https://doi.org/10.20506/rst.issue.38.1.2937

The natural ecology of Ebola virus infection remains enigmatic. No clear reservoir species has been confirmed but there is evidence of infection in a wide spectrum of mammals, including humans, non-human primates, domestic and wild ungulates and a va... Read More about Searching for the source of Ebola: the elusive factors driving its spillover into humans during the West African outbreak of 2013–2016.

Opportunistic bacteria and mass mortality in ungulates: lessons from an extreme event (2019)
Journal Article
Robinson, S., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Grachev, Y., Salemgareyev, A., Orynbayev, M., Morgan, E., …Kock, R. A. (2019). Opportunistic bacteria and mass mortality in ungulates: lessons from an extreme event. Ecosphere, 10(6), e02671. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2671

Mass mortality events in wildlife are a growing concern. Under conditions of rapid global change, opportunistic responses in bacterial commensals, triggered by environmental stressors, may be increasingly implicated in die‐offs. In 2015, over 200,000... Read More about Opportunistic bacteria and mass mortality in ungulates: lessons from an extreme event.

Mass Die-Off of Saiga Antelopes, Kazakhstan, 2015 (2019)
Journal Article
Fereidouni, S., Freimanis, G. L., Orynbayev, M., Ribeca, P., Flannery, J., King, D. P., …Kock, R. A. (2019). Mass Die-Off of Saiga Antelopes, Kazakhstan, 2015. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2506.180990

In 2015, a mass die-off of ≈200,000 saiga antelope in central Kazakhstan was caused by hemorrhagic septicemia attributable to the bacterium Pasteurella multocida serotype B. Previous analyses have indicated that environmental triggers associated with... Read More about Mass Die-Off of Saiga Antelopes, Kazakhstan, 2015.

Rapidly assessing the risks of infectious diseases to wildlife species (2019)
Journal Article
Beauvais, W., Zuther, S., Villeneuve, C., Kock, R. A., & Guitian, J. (2019). Rapidly assessing the risks of infectious diseases to wildlife species. Royal Society Open Science, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.181043

Predicting the likelihood of rare events is increasingly demanded by risk managers. A key challenge is dealing with different types of uncertainty, including epistemic uncertainties (lack of knowledge), stochasticity (inherent randomness) and natural... Read More about Rapidly assessing the risks of infectious diseases to wildlife species.

Monkeypox — Enhancing public health preparedness for an emerging lethal human zoonotic epidemic threat in the wake of the smallpox post-eradication era (2019)
Journal Article
Petersen, E., Abubakar, I., Ihekweazu, C., Heymann, D., Ntoumi, F., Blumberg, L., …Zumla, A. (2019). Monkeypox — Enhancing public health preparedness for an emerging lethal human zoonotic epidemic threat in the wake of the smallpox post-eradication era. International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 78, 78-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2018.11.008

The identification of monkeypox in 3 separate patients in the United Kingdom in September raised media and political attention on an emerging public health threat. Nigeria, whose last confirmed case of monkeypox was in 1978, is currently experiencing... Read More about Monkeypox — Enhancing public health preparedness for an emerging lethal human zoonotic epidemic threat in the wake of the smallpox post-eradication era.