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The Viral Storm

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by Nathan Wolfe


  digital signals

  disease du jour

  Dja Biosphere Reserve

  DNA, retroviruses and

  DNA microarray chip

  dogs

  domestication. See also livestock; and specific species and diseases

  Dowell, Scott

  drift seeds

  Eagle, Nathan

  earthquakes

  Ebola virus

  Zaire group

  ecosystem

  eggs

  electronic medical records

  emerging genes

  Emerging Pandemic Threats (EPT)

  endogenous viruses

  epidemics. See also pandemics

  assessing risk of

  charting spread of

  early identification of

  emerging genes and

  spread of, and air travel

  epidemiology

  digital

  GIS and

  history of

  microbiology and

  R0 concept and

  social media and

  Escherichia coli

  eukaryotes

  eunuchs

  Ewald, Paul

  Facebook

  factory farms

  Fae, Baby

  Fair, Joseph

  fatality rate

  Field, Hume

  filter paper techniques

  flagella

  flu. See H1N1; H5N1; influenza

  flying fox

  Folks, Tom

  Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

  food security

  food webs

  foot-and-mouth disease

  forests

  fossil evidence

  Fowler, James

  France, Anatole

  Freifeld, Clark

  frogs

  African clawed

  die-off

  FrontlineSMS:Medic

  fungus (fungi)

  domestication of

  frog die-offs and

  mobility of

  Galileo

  Gardasil

  GB virus (GBV)

  GBV C

  GenBank

  genetic sequencing

  high throughput

  massive

  genital warts

  genomes

  Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

  germ theory

  Getty, Jeff

  giardia

  gibbons

  Global Commission for Certification of Smallpox Eradication

  global immune system

  global nervous system

  Global Viral Forecasting (GVF)

  Goldring, Fred

  Gombe National Park

  Goodall, Jane

  Google

  Flu Trends system

  Predict and Prevent project

  Gordon, Jeff

  gorillas

  anthrax and

  Ebola and

  malaria and

  SFV and

  guenon

  Gunasekara, Lucky

  Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond)

  H1N1 (swine flu)

  monitoring

  reassortment and

  wild game and

  H5N1 (avian or bird flu)

  Hahn, Beatrice

  Haiti

  Hamilton, W. D.

  hand sanitizer

  hand shaking

  Hauser, Marc

  Hawaii

  head and neck cancer

  health care workers

  Healthy Hunter Program

  heart disease

  Helicobacter pylori

  hemophiliacs

  hemorrhagic fever viruses

  Henderson, D.A.

  Heneine, Walid

  hepatitis

  hepatitis B vaccine

  hepatitis B virus

  blood transfusions and

  liver cancer and

  hepatitis C virus (HCV)

  blood transfusions and

  injections and

  liver cancer and

  herpes B virus

  herpes simplex virus

  herpes virus therapy

  Hevecam plantation

  HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

  acute infection period of

  antiretroviral drugs and

  diversity of

  earliest sample of

  genomes of

  GV virus C and

  hunting and origin of

  hunting, urbanization, and spread of

  immunosuppression and

  latent vs. incubation period of

  medical technology and spread of

  OPV and

  as pandemic

  recombination and

  size and appearance of

  Holmes, Eddie

  Homo erectus

  Hong Kong

  host, dead

  host range

  host species. See cross-species transmission

  HPAIA. See H5N1

  HPV vaccine

  HTLV

  human body, microbes inhabiting

  human cell

  human herpesvirus 8

  human immunodeficiency virus. See HIV

  human mitochondrial genome

  human papillomavirus (HPV)

  cervical cancer and

  human parvovirus 4

  humans

  disease origins from animals (see cross-species transmission)

  evolution of microbial repertoire of

  genome size

  mobility of

  population growth and

  relationship of, to apes

  hunter-gatherers

  hunters and hunting

  Africa and

  cross-species transmission and

  HIV origins and

  logging and

  microbial diversity and

  reducing risks from

  sentinels and

  immune system

  organ transplants and

  virus mutations and

  immunization

  immunodeficiency

  immunosuppressive drugs

  incubation period

  Indonesian archipelago

  Infessura, Stefano

  influenza

  air travel and

  bird flu (see H5N1)

  digital tracking and

  disease du jour and

  epidemic of 1918

  epidemic of 1977

  global surveillance system

  livestock and

  logging and

  mental illness and

  online search trends and

  origin of human

  prediction markets

  recombination and reassortment and

  swine flu (see H1N1)

  influenza vaccines

  information and communication technology

  injections

  Innocent VIII, Pope

  insects. See also mosquitoes

  International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research

  Internet

  search patterns

  social media

  intravenous rehydrating fluids

  in vitro meat

  isolation

  Ivanovski, Dmitri

  Ivory Coast

  Japan

  Japanese encephalitis virus

  Jenner, Edward

  Jermias, Inrombé

  Karesh, Billy

  Kelantan, Malaysia

  Kibale Forest

  Kilbourn, Annelisa

  Kinshasa (formerly Leopoldville)

  kuru

  Kyambura Gorge

  labor camps

  Lampos, Vasileios

  Lancet, The

  land bridges

  Lassa fever

  latent period

  LeBreton, Mat

  Leendertz, Fabian

  Leeuwenhoek, Antonie van

  leishmania parasite

  Leopoldville. See Kinshasa

  Leroy, Eric

  leukemia


  Liardet, Arthur Evelyn

  Lipkin, Ian

  liver cancer

  liver transplants

  livestock

  lock-and-key system

  logging

  Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Luebo Ebola outbreaks

  lymphotropic viruses

  macaques

  herpes B and

  SV40 and

  mad cow disease. See bovine spongiform encelphalopathy; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant

  malaria

  blood transfusions and

  organ transplants and

  origins of

  PCR and

  Plasmodium falciparum

  Plasmodium reichenowi

  Plasmodium vivax

  Plasmodium vivax hibernans

  as protozoan parasite

  screening for

  Malaysia

  mangabey, red-capped

  mangos

  Man the Hunter (DeVore)

  mapping

  Marburg virus

  marine habitats

  Marx, Preston

  mash-up

  Mbeya site

  McCutchan, Francine

  measles

  measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine

  Médecines Sans Frontières (MSF)

  Menoutou, Paul Delon

  mental illness

  Merck

  microbes. See also bacteria; cross-species transmission; hunting; microbial repertoire; reassortment; reservoirs; viruses; and specific diseases; species

  acute vs. chronic

  chronic diseases caused by

  chronic diseases controlled by

  deadliness of, vs. ease of spreading

  defined

  discovery of

  domestication and

  ecology of

  food web and

  genetic changes by

  germ theory and

  impact of, on host

  increasing threat of

  livestock and

  medical technologies as bridges for

  mitigating risk of infection by

  mobility and

  pets and

  population densities and

  predicting spread of

  stages of pandemic emergence and 100–101

  urbanization and

  microbial bridges

  microbial cleansing

  microbial diversity

  microbial hot spots

  microbial magnification

  microbial repertoire

  domestic animals and

  hunter-gatherers and

  population bottlenecks and

  microbiome

  microbiota

  microfluidic platforms

  microscope

  Mimivirus

  MIT Media Lab

  mobility

  frog fungus and

  HIV and

  latent period and

  smallpox and

  Monagin, Corina

  monkey gland operation

  monkeypox

  monkeys. See also macaques

  HIV and

  hunting of

  red colobus

  SIV and

  yellow fever and

  Montagnier, Luc

  Moore, Jim

  mosaic daughter viruses

  mosquitoes

  Mullis, Kary

  murine leukemia virus (MLV)

  mutation

  Muyembe, Jean-Jacques

  National Cancer Institute

  National Geographic

  National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  Director’s Pioneer Award Program

  natural selection

  Nature

  Ndongo, Sergent-Chef

  Nelmes, Sarah

  nerve cells

  neuroendocrine system

  New England Journal of Medicine

  New York Times

  Ngandjui, Germain

  Ngole, Colonel Mpoudi

  Ngole, Evelyne

  Nipah virus

  noncellular life, defined

  Nora (Champsaur)

  obese microbiota

  On the Origin of Species (Darwin)

  oral polio vaccine (OPV)

  orangutans

  organ transplants

  Orthopoxvirus genus

  Ötzi the Iceman

  outbreak data

  crowd sourcing of

  mash-up

  overlapping reading frames phenomenon

  pandemic classification system

  Category One

  Category Two

  Category Three

  Category Four

  Category Five

  pandemics. See also epidemics; epidemiology; and specific diseases; microbes; and species

  assessing personal risk from

  assessing risk of

  birth of

  catching, before emergence

  defined

  hunting new

  information and communication technology and

  new systems for prevention of

  public health systems and

  recombination and reassortment and

  risk literacy and

  WHO six-stage classification

  Panosian, Claire

  Papua New Guinea

  parasites

  patient zero

  Patterson, Jean

  PCR. See polymerase chain reaction

  Peeters, Martine

  PERV (porcine endogenous) retrovirus

  pets

  Phil’s Pocket Pets

  Phipps, James

  Picasso, Pablo

  picornavirus family

  pigs

  organ transplants from

  plants

  poliovirus

  poliovirus vaccines. See also oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)

  polydnavirus

  polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

  Polynesians

  population bottlenecks

  population densities

  population size

  porcupines

  poverty

  prairie dogs

  prediction markets

  pregnancy

  pregnancy tests

  primates. See specific species

  prions

  probiotics

  processed meats

  prokaryotes

  Prophecy program

  Prosser, Adria Tassy

  prostate cancer

  protozoan parasites

  public health system

  Pybus, Oliver

  Q fever

  Quake, Steve

  Quammen, David

  Queen Elizabeth National Park

  rabies

  railroads

  rats, Gambian giant

  reassortment

  receptors

  recombination

  Rees, Sir Martin

  Reichenow, Eduardo

  reservoir species

  retroviruses. See also HIV; and other specific viruses

  rhinovirus

  Rich, Steve

  Rigoni-Stern, Domenico

  Rimoin, Anne

  rinderpest

  risk interpretation

  risk literacy

  ritual scarification

  RNA

  RNA viruses

  roads

  rodents

  Rolling Stone

  Rous, F. Peyton

  Rous sarcoma virus

  Russian State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology (VECTOR)

  Rwanda earthquake of 2008

  salmonella

  sand flies

  SARS

  Savage-Rumbaugh, Sue

  savanna (grasslands)

  Saylors, Karen

  schizophrenia

  Science

  scrapie

  seafaring

  sedentary populations

  Seneca Valley virus

  sentinels

  September 11, 200
1 attacks

  serial passage experiments

  sexually transmitted diseases

  shadow life

  sheep

  Shoko, Asahara

  sickle cell disease

  Sierra Leone

  simian foamy virus (SFV)

  simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)

  Simmonds, Peter

  Singapore

  Singh, Balbir

  Skoll, Jeff

  Skoll Global Threats Fund

  Skoll World Forum

  Skype

  smallpox

  bioterror and

  as Category Five microbe

  cowpox and

  eradication of

  Europeans and spread of

  origin of

  smallpox vaccine

  Smith, Derek

  Smolinski, Mark

  snakes

  Snow, John

  social media

  Song of the Dod, The (Quammen)

  Sonnenburg, Justin

  Southeast Asia

  Soviet Union. See also Russia

  Specter, Michael

  Spielman, Andy

  squirrels

  Stanford, Craig

  STLV-3 (simian T-lymphotropic virus 3)

  stomach ulcers

  stress

  super-spreader

  surgical masks

  SV40 virus

  swine flu. See also H1N1

  Switzer, Bill

  sylvatic dengue

  symptoms

  Taï forest

  Tamoufe, Ubald

  Tanzania

  tattooing

  taxonomic transmission rule

  Tector, Joe

  Tenet, George

  terns

  text messaging

  T-lymphotropic viruses (TLVs)

  tobacco mosaic disease

  toxoplasma (Toxoplasma gondii)

  tragedy of the commons

  transmission. See also cross-species transmission

  microbe’s need for

  vertical

  transportation networks

  TT virus (TTV)

  tuberculosis

  tularemia

  Twitter

  Uganda

  UK Health Protection Agency

  urbanization

  US Agency for International Development (USAID)

  Avian Influenza and Other Emerging Threats Unit

  Ushahidi

  vaccines. See also specific diseases and vaccines

  animal reservoirs and

  attenuated virus

  chronic diseases and

  inactivated virus

  live virus

  variolation

  VECTOR

  viral chatter

  viral microarray

  viral swarms (quasispecies)

  virotherapy

  viruses. See also specific diseases and viruses

  beneficial

  cancers caused by

  cellular life infected by

  cross-species transmission of

  defined

  discovery of

  evolution of

  genetic material and mixing by

  livestock and

  new detection techniques and

  new species of

  predicting evolution of

  receptors and

  reservoirs and

  virus-like particles (FLPs)

  Voronoff, Serge A.

  Wallace’s Line

  Wangmene, Major

  water

  Watkins, Jeremy

  Western blot test

  wet markets

  wild animals. See also hunters and hunting; and specific animals

  Wildlife Conservation Society

  wolves

  Woolhouse, Mark

  World Health Organization (WHO)

  Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network

 

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