Sarah Cleaveland

TL;DR: Rabies remains an important yet neglected disease in Africa and Asia, and disparities in the affordability and accessibility of post-exposure treatment and risks of exposure to rabid dogs result in a skewed distribution of the disease burden across society.

TL;DR: Investment in dog vaccination, the single most effective way of reducing the disease burden, has been inadequate and that the availability and affordability of PEP needs improving, demonstrating that collaboration by medical and veterinary sectors could dramatically reduce the current large, and unnecessary, burden of rabies on affected communities.

TL;DR: A database of disease-causing pathogens of humans and domestic mammals was constructed and it was found that helminths and fungi were relatively unlikely to emerge whereas viruses, particularly RNA viruses, were highly likely to emerge.

TL;DR: This work proposes that reservoirs can only be understood with reference to defined target populations, and defines a reservoir as one or more epidemiologically connected populations or environments in which the pathogen can be permanently maintained and from which infection is transmitted to the defined target population.

TL;DR: The identification of CDV from these lions, and the close phylogenetic relationship between CDV isolates from lions and domestic dogs are reported.