id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-305327-hayhbs5u Gonzalez, Jean-Paul Global Spread of Hemorrhagic Fever Viruses: Predicting Pandemics 2017-09-19 .txt text/plain 10210 424 37 Other pathogens that are remarkable for their epidemic expansions include the arenavirus hemorrhagic fevers and hantavirus diseases carried by rodents over great geographic distances and the arthropod-borne viruses (West Nile, chikungunya and Zika) enabled by ecology and vector adaptations. Emergence from a sporadic case to an outbreak, to an epidemic, and ultimately to a pandemic depends upon effective transmission among nonimmune hosts, host availability (density), characteristics of the vector (natural or human made) that would enable it to circumvent distances, and the pathogen infectiousness. Although MARV expansion appears to be limited to a few countries in Africa, the recent emergence (estimated at a few decades ago) of a second human pathogenic marburgvirus known as Ravn virus, and the widely distributed Old World rousette fruit bats (Rousettus spp.) serving as reservoir for both viruses [45] , are two factors that favor pandemic risk. ./cache/cord-305327-hayhbs5u.txt ./txt/cord-305327-hayhbs5u.txt