While We Endure This Pandemic, What New Respiratory Virus Threats Are We Missing?

Gregory C Gray; Anfal Abdelgadir

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofab078

While We Endure This Pandemic, What New Respiratory Virus Threats Are We Missing?

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021 Feb 12;8(3):ofab078. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofab078. eCollection 2021 Mar.

Authors

Gregory C Gray^{1

2

3

4}, Anfal Abdelgadir^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
² Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
³ Global Health Research Center, Duke-Kunshan University, Kunshan, China.
⁴ Emerging Infectious Diseases Program, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

Abstract

In this paper, we review recent human respiratory virus epidemics, their zoonotic nature, and our current inability to identify future prepandemic threats. We propose a cost-efficient, One Health surveillance strategy that will be more efficient and more sustainable than previous efforts.

Keywords: adenoviruses; coronaviruses; emerging respiratory viruses; enteroviruses; influenza viruses.