Predicting Disease Transmission from Animal Carriers
Abstract
Many emerging infectious disease outbreaks have origins in animal reservoirs. This program will investigate how animal pathogens gain the ability to be transmitted to humans. Tools such as detailed molecular analysis of animal reservoirs and bioinformatics will be leveraged. Building on discoveries in this program, researchers will develop predictive models to forecast potential environments where conditions are most favorable for disease transmission between animals and humans. Predicting such areas is a key capability to mitigating unforeseen outbreaks originating in animal reservoirs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- b4932557335fbee4468eaa25194fe2bc