Cargando…
How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk?
Identifying the animal reservoirs from which zoonotic viruses will likely emerge is central to understanding the determinants of disease emergence. Accordingly, there has been an increase in studies attempting zoonotic “risk assessment.” Herein, we demonstrate that the virological data on which thes...
Autores principales: | , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Public Library of Science
2021
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33878111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001135 |
_version_ | 1783680863317262336 |
---|---|
author | Wille, Michelle Geoghegan, Jemma L. Holmes, Edward C. |
author_facet | Wille, Michelle Geoghegan, Jemma L. Holmes, Edward C. |
author_sort | Wille, Michelle |
collection | PubMed |
description | Identifying the animal reservoirs from which zoonotic viruses will likely emerge is central to understanding the determinants of disease emergence. Accordingly, there has been an increase in studies attempting zoonotic “risk assessment.” Herein, we demonstrate that the virological data on which these analyses are conducted are incomplete, biased, and rapidly changing with ongoing virus discovery. Together, these shortcomings suggest that attempts to assess zoonotic risk using available virological data are likely to be inaccurate and largely only identify those host taxa that have been studied most extensively. We suggest that virus surveillance at the human–animal interface may be more productive. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8057571 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2021 |
publisher | Public Library of Science |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-80575712021-04-30 How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? Wille, Michelle Geoghegan, Jemma L. Holmes, Edward C. PLoS Biol Essay Identifying the animal reservoirs from which zoonotic viruses will likely emerge is central to understanding the determinants of disease emergence. Accordingly, there has been an increase in studies attempting zoonotic “risk assessment.” Herein, we demonstrate that the virological data on which these analyses are conducted are incomplete, biased, and rapidly changing with ongoing virus discovery. Together, these shortcomings suggest that attempts to assess zoonotic risk using available virological data are likely to be inaccurate and largely only identify those host taxa that have been studied most extensively. We suggest that virus surveillance at the human–animal interface may be more productive. Public Library of Science 2021-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8057571/ /pubmed/33878111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001135 Text en © 2021 Wille et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Essay Wille, Michelle Geoghegan, Jemma L. Holmes, Edward C. How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? |
title | How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? |
title_full | How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? |
title_fullStr | How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? |
title_full_unstemmed | How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? |
title_short | How accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? |
title_sort | how accurately can we assess zoonotic risk? |
topic | Essay |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8057571/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33878111 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001135 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT willemichelle howaccuratelycanweassesszoonoticrisk AT geogheganjemmal howaccuratelycanweassesszoonoticrisk AT holmesedwardc howaccuratelycanweassesszoonoticrisk |