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
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