Peter Daszak
Biographic Data
| ID | 5587143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Daszak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Daszak |
| SIGNATURE | DASZAK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | EcoHealth Alliance |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2046-5695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What drives and inhibits wildlife consumption among adults in Southern China
Identification and Genetic Characterization of Mers-Related Coronavirus Isolated from Nathusius’ Pipistrelle (Pipistrellus nathusii) near Zvenigorod (Moscow Region, Russia)
Being diverse and widely distributed globally, bats are a known reservoir of a series of emerging zoonotic viruses. We studied fecal viromes of twenty-six bats captured in 2015 in the Moscow Region and found 13 of 26 (50%) samples to be coronavirus positive. Of P. nathusii (the Nathusius' pipistrelle), 3 of 6 samples were carriers of a novel MERS-related betacoronavirus. We sequenced and assembled the complete genome of this betacoronavirus and n…
International Collaboration is the Only Way to Protect Ourselves from the Next Pandemic
Investing to Both Prevent and Prepare for Covid-XX
One cause of the high rate of COVID-19 cases in the USA is thought to be insufficient prior capital investment in national health programs to preemptively reduce the likelihood of an outbreak and in national capacity to reduce the severity of any outbreak that does occur. We analyze the choice of capital investments (e.g. testing capacity, stockpiles of PPE, and information sharing capacity) and find the economically efficient capital stock assoc…
Seasonality of Date Palm Sap Feeding Behavior by Bats in Bangladesh
Environmental Change and Zoonotic Disease Risk at Human-Macaque Interfaces in Bangladesh
Ecology and economics for pandemic prevention
Investments to prevent tropical deforestation and to limit wildlife trade will protect against future zoonosis outbreaks
Catastrophic Risk
Epidemiology and Molecular Characterization of Rotavirus A in Fruit Bats in Bangladesh
Rotavirus A (RVA) is the primary cause of acute dehydrating diarrhea in human and numerous animal species. Animal-to-human interspecies transmission is one of the evolutionary mechanisms driving rotavirus strain diversity in humans. We screened fresh feces from 416 bats (201 Pteropus medius , 165 Rousettus leschenaultii and 50 Taphozous melanopogon ) for RVA using rRT-PCR. We detected a prevalence of 7% (95% CI 3.5–10.8) and 2% (95% CI 0.4–5.2) i…
Failing Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change are a Futile Band-Aid that will not Stop Other Elephants Filling the Room
No Evidence of Coronaviruses or Other Potentially Zoonotic Viruses in Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) Entering the Wildlife Trade via Malaysia
The legal and illegal trade in wildlife for food, medicine and other products is a globally significant threat to biodiversity that is also responsible for the emergence of pathogens that threaten human and livestock health and our global economy. Trade in wildlife likely played a role in the origin of COVID-19, and viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 have been identified in bats and pangolins, both traded widely. To investigate the possible ro…
Protection of wetlands as a strategy for reducing the spread of avian influenza from migratory waterfowl
Incorporating Health Outcomes into Land-Use Planning
The Economic Case for a Pandemic Fund
Life and Death in Bloom
The Artist as Serial Killer
Impacts of Pathogen Introduction Risk on Importer Behavior and Gains from Trade in the Livestock Industry
The Economics of Infectious Disease, Trade and Pandemic Risk
Global hotspots and correlates of emerging zoonotic diseases
Zoonoses originating from wildlife represent a significant threat to global health, security and economic growth, and combatting their emergence is a public health priority. However, our understanding of the mechanisms underlying their emergence remains rudimentary. Here we update a global database of emerging infectious disease (EID) events, create a novel measure of reporting effort, and fit boosted regression tree models to analyze the demogra…
Summarizing US Wildlife Trade with an Eye Toward Assessing the Risk of Infectious Disease Introduction
The aim of this study was to characterize the role of the USA in the global exchange of wildlife and describe high volume trade with an eye toward prioritizing health risk assessment questions for further analysis. Here we summarize nearly 14 years (2000–2013) of the most comprehensive data available (USFWS LEMIS system), involving 11 billion individual specimens and an additional 977 million kilograms of wildlife. The majority of shipments conta…
Economic growth, urbanization, globalization, and the risks of emerging infectious diseases in China
A Last Waltz for Burke, Wills, and King
Increased Morbidity and Mortality in Domestic Animals Eating Dropped and Bitten Fruit in Bangladeshi Villages
Viral Diversity, Prey Preference, and Bartonella Prevalence in Desmodus rotundus in Guatemala
Our Collective Vomit
Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America
Epidermal changes caused by a chytridiomycete fungus (Chytridiomycota; Chytridiales) were found in sick and dead adult anurans collected from montane rain forests in Queensland (Australia) and Panama during mass mortality events associated with significant population declines. We also have found this new disease associated with morbidity and mortality in wild and captive anurans from additional locations in Australia and Central America. This is …
Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health
Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of free-living wild animals can be classified into three major groups on the basis of key epizootiological criteria: (i) EIDs associated with “spill-over” from domestic animals to wildlife populations living in proximity; (ii) EIDs related directly to human intervention, via host or parasite translocations; and (iii) EIDs with no overt human or domestic animal involvement. These phenomena have two major biologi…
Anthropogenic environmental change and the emergence of infectious diseases in wildlife
Unhealthy Landscapes
Anthropogenic land use changes drive a range of infectious disease outbreaks and emergence events and modify the transmission of endemic infections. These drivers include agricultural encroachment, deforestation, road construction, dam building, irrigation, wetland modification, mining, the concentration or expansion of urban environments, coastal zone degradation, and other activities. These changes in turn cause a cascade of factors that exacer…
Henipaviruses
EcoHealth
Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Pathways by Which West Nile Virus Could Reach Hawaii
Bushmeat Hunting, Deforestation, and Prediction of Zoonotic Disease
Understanding the emergence of new zoonotic agents requires knowledge of pathogen biodiversity in wildlife, human-wildlife interactions, anthropogenic pressures on wildlife populations, and changes in society and human behavior. We discuss an interdisciplinary approach combining virology, wildlife biology, disease ecology, and anthropology that enables better understanding of how deforestation and associated hunting leads to the emergence of nove…
Emerging Infectious Diseases and the Socio-ecological Dimension
Launching the International EcoHealth Association
The Decline of the Sharp-Snouted Day Frog (Taudactylus acutirostris)
Cover Essay
When Science Meets Advocacy
The Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca) as a Reservoir of Zoonotic and Livestock Pathogens
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
Cover Essay
Cover Essay
EcoHealth and the Black Death in the Year of the Rat
Parasite Threat to Panda Conservation
The giant panda is a global symbol of wildlife conservation that is threatened by historic and current habitat loss. Despite a great deal of research on the physiology, reproductive biology, and diet of pandas in the wild and in captivity, there is little information on wild panda mortality. Here we integrate previously unavailable data on the mortality of wild pandas. We report on three recent phases of panda mortality: deaths due to bamboo flow…
Death is a Fisherman
A Fall From Grace To… Virulence
Cover Essay
Rock, Paper, Scissors; Chicken, Human, Swine
Lucky Country, Broken Land
A Call for “Smart Surveillance”
Biology (76 works) · Animal ecology (65 works) · Medicine (57 works) · Ecology (56 works) · Geography (46 works) · Public health (45 works) · Zoonotic diseases and public health (33 works) · Animal Disease Management and Epidemiology (21 works) · Viral Infections and Vectors (18 works) · Environmental health (17 works)