Mark E. J. Woolhouse

TL;DR: This study represents the first quantitative analysis identifying risk factors for human disease emergence, with protozoa and viruses particularly likely to emerge, and helminths particularly unlikely to do so, irrespective of their zoonotic status.

TL;DR: Emerging and reemerging species of human pathogens are associated with a broad range of nonhuman hosts and have the potential to pose a threat to human health.

TL;DR: From an analysis of the distributions of measures of transmission rates among hosts, an empirical relationship is identified suggesting that, typically, 20% of the host population contributes at least 80%" of the net transmission potential, as measured by the basic reproduction number, R0.

TL;DR: An individual farm–based stochastic model of the current UK epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease reveals the infection dynamics at an unusually high spatiotemporal resolution, and shows that the spatial distribution, size, and species composition of farms all influence the observed pattern and regional variability of outbreaks.

TL;DR: Improving the understanding of the biomedical significance of co-evolution will require changing the way in which the authors look for it, complementing the phenomenological approach traditionally favored by evolutionary biologists with the exploitation of the extensive data becoming available on the molecular biology and molecular genetics of host–pathogen interactions.