Strategies for Eliminating Neglected Tropical Viral Diseases
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Human Virology and Viral Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2024 | Viewed by 1708
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
3. Program in Epidemiology, OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Interests: flaviviruses; arboviruses; vaccines; antibodies; memory B cells; clinical infectious disease; infectious disease ecology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Neglected tropical viral diseases encompass arthropod-borne and other zoonotic illnesses with incidence and prevalence that range from rare and sporadic to epidemic and endemic. While for each disease there are specific measures and interventions that may be needed to control or eliminate that specific disease, the overarching goal of reducing the impact neglected tropical viral diseases will require multifaceted approaches that combine individual, community level, population level, and environmental-based strategies that combine to minimize, if not eliminate, exposure to, susceptibility to, and illness from infection with these viruses. This Special Issue of Viruses on “Strategies for Eliminated Neglected Tropical Viral Diseases” will include review articles or papers that have, as an ultimate goal, the providing of:
- General background on the elimination of neglected tropical viral diseases in either humans or other animals.
- Vaccine refinement, design, and deployment strategies for the elimination of neglected tropical diseases.
- Modification of the human-environment interface to eliminate or control neglected tropical diseases:
- Agricultural or harvesting activities;
- Landscape incursion and modification for housing or agriculture;
- The built environment.
- Vector and vertebrate reservoir control for control or elimination of neglected tropical viral diseases.
- Therapeutic strategies to control or eliminate neglected tropical viral diseases.
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices that can contribute to control or elimination of neglected tropical viral diseases.
- The impact of social and/or economic reform on control or elimination of neglected tropical viral diseases.
- The impact of climate change on the control or elimination of neglected tropical viral diseases.
Dr. William Messer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- neglected tropical viral diseases
- viral vaccines
- vector control
- reservoir control
- knowledge attitudes and practice
- the built environment
- climate change
- antiviral therapy
