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Emerging Diseases

The Johns Hopkins Infectious Disease Dynamics group has worked to provide dynamic modeling and just in time analyses in the response to emerging disease ranging from ZIKV, to Ebola, to MERS-CoV.

Updates #EID #zika #ebola #zikv

1 year 5 days ago

Analysis of the cost of active monitoring for #Ebola and other #EID from @reichlab, @JustinLessler, @neilvora_md, a… https://t.co/59goXe5QvO
1 year 5 days ago

Analysis of the cost of active monitoring for #Ebola and other #EID from @reichlab, @JustinLessler, @neilvora_md, a… https://t.co/59goXe5QvO
1 year 6 months ago

RT @JustinLessler: Honored to be in special issue of @sciencemagazine on #EID. Great articles from @mlipsitch, @GrahamMedley etc. https://t.co/qyvTAUJpd2
2 years 4 months ago

@JustinLessler quaoted in a @GlblCtzn article on the hunt for a #Zika vaccine. (even gets the last word). https://t.co/JcNkHIFBtV
2 years 4 months ago

RT @JustinLessler: New epidemiologic evidence of a link between GBS and #Zika from @pahowho and others in @NEJM: https://t.co/WfOuwEFgZa
2 years 4 months ago

RT @JustinLessler: Nice summary of #Zika science in @MiamiHerald w/ appearances by @datcummings, me and our @sciencemagazine review. https://t.co/Xkw7mNe6OC
2 years 5 months ago

@JustinLessler talking about #zika and El Nina in @NatGeo : https://t.co/ZUnQ7JBRxD
2 years 6 months ago

RT @JHIDDynamics: Also congrats to @leliachaisson @datcummings @QifangB and many others on this. #EID https://t.co/Wo8pNryLu5
2 years 6 months ago

RT @JHIDDynamics: Also congrats to our colleagues at @imperialcollege (and @JustinLessler) for the parallel policy forum #EID
2 years 6 months ago

Also congrats to our colleagues at @imperialcollege (and @JustinLessler) for the parallel policy forum #EID
2 years 6 months ago

Also congrats to @leliachaisson @datcummings @QifangB and many others on this. #EID https://t.co/Wo8pNryLu5

Resources

18 Aug 2016

Code and Data or Zika Literature Reivew

Code and data from our literature review estimating the time to key events in the natural history of Zika virus infection.

Publications

Effect of Artesunate-Amodiaquine on Mortality Related to Ebola Virus Disease.

Gignoux E, Azman AS, de Smet M, Azuma P, Massaquoi M, Job D, Tiffany A, Petrucci R, Sterk E, Potet J, Suzuki M, Kurth A, Cannas A, Bocquin A, Strecker T, Logue C, Pottage T, Yue C, Cabrol JC, Serafini M, Ciglenecki I.

N Engl J Med, 2016: 374: 23-32, 10.1056/NEJMoa1504605

Association between Zika virus and microcephaly in French Polynesia, 2013-15: a retrospective study.

Cauchemez S, Besnard M, Bompard P, Dub T, Guillemette-Artur P, Eyrolle-Guignot D, Salje H, Van Kerkhove MD, Abadie V, Garel C, Fontanet A, Mallet HP.

Lancet, 2016: 387: 2125-32, 10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00651-6

Seroepidemiology of Human Enterovirus 71 Infection among Children, Cambodia.

Horwood PF, Andronico A, Tarantola A, Salje H, Duong V, Mey C, Ly S, Dussart P, Cauchemez S, Buchy P.

Emerg Infect Dis, 2016: 22: 92-5, 10.3201/eid2201.151323

Reducing uncertainty about flavivirus infections.

Kucharski A, Riley S.

Lancet Infect Dis, 2016: 17(1): 13-5, 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30524-2

Estimating the Severity and Subclinical Burden of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Infection in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Lessler J, Salje H, Van Kerkhove MD, Ferguson NM, Cauchemez S, Rodriquez-Barraquer I, Hakeem R, Jombart T, Aguas R, Al-Barrak A, Cummings DA; MERS-CoV Scenario and Modeling Working Group.

Am J Epidemiol, 2016: 183: 657-63, 10.1093/aje/kwv452

Joint China-US Call for Employing a Transdisciplinary Approach to Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Mazet JA, Wei Q, Zhao G, Cummings DA, Desmond JS, Rosenthal J, King CH, Cao W, Chmura AA, Hagan EA, Zhang S, Xiao X, Xu J, Shi Z, Feng F, Liu X, Pan W, Zhu G, Zuo L, Daszak P.

Ecohealth, 2015: 12: 555-9, 10.1007/s10393-015-1060-1

Estimating Potential Incidence of MERS-CoV Associated with Hajj Pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, 2014.

Lessler J, Rodriguez-Barraquer I, Cummings DA, Garske T, Van Kerkhove M, Mills H, Truelove S, Hakeem R, Albarrak A, Ferguson NM; MERS-CoV Scenario Modeling Working Group; MERS-CoV Scenario Modeling Working Group.

PLoS Curr, 2014: 6: 10.1371/currents.outbreaks.c5c9c9abd636164a9b6fd4dbda974369

Hospital outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus.

Assiri A, McGeer A, Perl TM, Price CS, Al Rabeeah AA, Cummings DA, Alabdullatif ZN, Assad M, Almulhim A, Makhdoom H, Madani H, Alhakeem R, Al-Tawfiq JA, Cotten M, Watson SJ, Kellam P, Zumla AI, Memish ZA; KSA MERS-CoV Investigation Team.

N Engl J Med, 2013: 369: 407-16, 10.1056/NEJMoa1306742

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