Emerging Viral Threats: Surveillance, Impact, and Mitigation
A special issue of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease (ISSN 2414-6366).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 2473
Special Issue Editor
Interests: virology; microbiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Infectious diseases highlight the critical need for public health measures and research to safeguard global well-being and prevent widespread outbreaks. In this context, emerging viruses are of ultimate importance for better surveillance, comprehensive research, and robust response-aiming control strategies, given their potential to cause significant morbidity and mortality. Their emergence is often facilitated not only by environmental factors such as global travel, climate change, deforestation, and uncontrolled urbanization, which enable rapid transmission and complicate containment efforts, but also by their ability to mutate, evolve, and adapt to new hosts. Addressing these challenges requires a multi-faceted approach, including the development of innovative diagnostic tools and vaccines, improving surveillance systems, and strengthening international collaboration and preparedness strategies. In this way, one must ameliorate our ability to detect, understand, and respond to emerging viral threats effectively. By advancing our knowledge and fostering global cooperation, we can better mitigate the impact of these viruses and safeguard public health against their potentially devastating effects.
Dr. Mariana Sequetin Cunha
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- one health
- viral surveillance
- zoonotic diseases
- virus evolution
- epidemiology
- public health
- real-time monitoring
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