Infectious Diseases from Nature : Mechanisms of Viral Emergence and Persistence

Comments on the life and contributions of Robert E. Shope (Robert B. Tesh) Virus perpetuation in populations: biological variables that determine persistence or eradication (N. Nathanson) The virus-immunity ecosystem (P. C. Doherty and S. J. Turner) Host range, amplification and arboviral disease emergence (S. C.Weaver) Regulation of Rodent-Borne viruses in the natural host: implications for human disease (J. N. Mills) Population dynamics of RNA viruses: the essential contribution of mutant spectra (E. Domingo, C. Gonzalez-Lopez, N. Pariente, A. Airaksinen, and C. Escarmìs) Control of arbovirus diseases: is the vector the weak link? (B. J. Beaty) Pathogenesis of Rift Valley fever virus in mosquitoes - tracheal conduits & the basal lamina as an extra-cellular barrier (W. S. Romoser, M. J. Turell, K. Lerdthusnee, M. Neira1, D. Dohm, G. Ludwig, L.Wasieloski) The virulence of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus: unraveling the enigma (J. K. Taubenberger) The spread of the H5N1 bird flu epidemic in Asia in 2004 (R. G.Webster, Y. Guan, L. Poon, S. Krauss, R.Webby, E. Govorkova, M. Peiris) Transient or occult HIV infections may occur more frequently than progressive infections: changing the paradigm about HIV persistence (G. K. Sahu, T. McNearney, A. Evans, A. Turner, S.Weaver, J. C. Huang, S. Baron, D. Paar, and M.W. Cloyd) Ehrlichia under our noses and no one notices (D. H. Walker) The role of reverse genetics systems in determining filovirus pathogenicity (S. Theriault, A. Groseth, H. Artsob, H. Feldmann) Structural biology of old world and new world alphaviruses (A. Paredes, S.Weaver, S.Watowich, W.Chiu) Species barriers in prion diseases - brief review (R.-A. Moore, I. Vorberg, S.-A. Priola) Academic science and the business of vaccines (R. E. Johnston) Emerging infectious diseases: the public's view of the problem and what should be expected from the public health community (J. M. Hughes)