A century of emergence: trends and patterns in human viral pathogens, 1900–2024, a systematic review
Ashley Quigley, Rosalie Chen, Adriana Notaras, Atalay Goshu Muluneh, Samsung Lim, Abrar A. Chughtai, C. Raina MacIntyre · 2025
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Description
New human viruses keep appearing, and knowing when and where they emerge helps planners prepare. Ashley Quigley and co-authors reviewed every human virus reported across more than a century. Their set holds two hundred twelve viruses first described between nineteen hundred and twenty twenty-four. The team tracked first detection sites, spread routes, and illness types. They also built an interactive tool for browsing the patterns.
Emergence peaked between nineteen fifty and nineteen seventy-nine, then rose again after two thousand. The United States, China, and Australia were the most common first detection sites, a pattern the authors link to lab capacity. RNA viruses dominated, and animal or insect spread accounted for most events. Peaks matched gains in testing and surveillance as much as biology.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ashley Quigley, Rosalie Chen, Adriana Notaras, Atalay Goshu Muluneh, Samsung Lim, Abrar A. Chughtai, C. Raina MacIntyre |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |