Institute for Human Infections and Immunity and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Antiviral Res. 2018 Aug;156:80-84. doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2018.06.009. Epub 2018 Jun 14.
The recent emergence and rapid spread of Zika virus in tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere took arbovirologists and public health officials by surprise, and the earlier transfers of West Nile and chikungunya viruses from the Old to the New World were also unexpected. These pandemics underscore the increasing threat of zoonotic arboviruses, especially those that are capable of entering into human-amplified, urban transmission cycles transmitted by Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti and sometimes other Aedes (Stegomyia) spp. mosquitoes. This review serves as an introduction to a World Health Organization-sponsored conference to be held on June 18-19, 2018 in Geneva, titled "From obscurity to urban epidemics: what are the next urban arboviruses?" It is intended to set the stage and fuel discussions of future urban arbovirus threats, how we can predict these risks from known and unknown viruses, and what factors may change these risks over time.
西半球热带地区寨卡病毒的近期出现和迅速传播令虫媒病毒学家和公共卫生官员感到意外，此前西尼罗河病毒和基孔肯雅热病毒从旧世界转移到新世界也是意料之外的。这些大流行突显了人畜共患虫媒病毒的威胁日益增加，尤其是那些能够进入人类增强的城市传播周期的病毒，这些病毒由埃及伊蚊（Stegomyia）和有时其他埃及伊蚊（Stegomyia）种传播。本综述是对将于 2018 年 6 月 18 日至 19 日在日内瓦举行的世界卫生组织赞助的会议的介绍，会议主题为“从默默无闻到城市流行：下一个城市虫媒病毒是什么？”其目的是为未来城市虫媒病毒威胁设置舞台并激发讨论，我们如何能够从已知和未知病毒预测这些风险，以及哪些因素可能随着时间的推移改变这些风险。
