The link between past and future epidemics

Abstract excerpt

Human, animal and plant populations are at risk of large outbreaks of infectious diseases called ‘epidemics’. Despite the potential for strong antagonistic co-evolution between host and parasite infection traits, epidemiological research has often focussed on studying any given epidemic in isolation. Therefore, I propose a simple ‘Disease Cycle’ model that seeks to link the size of past and future epidemics of dis...

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• Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology
• Biological Evolution
• Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
• Genetic Variation
• Models, Biological
• Population Dynamics
• Vertebrates
• Zoonotic diseases and public health

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Literature Corpus work

be1cc733-cffd-5f53-8d60-ef7012c02d99

DOI

10.22541/au.173679721.15010863/v2