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Peter Daszak

Researcher at EcoHealth Alliance

Publications -  354
Citations -  48272

Peter Daszak is an academic researcher from EcoHealth Alliance. The author has contributed to research in topics: Animal ecology & Population. The author has an hindex of 86, co-authored 330 publications receiving 40415 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Daszak include Columbia University & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Global trends in emerging infectious diseases

TL;DR: It is concluded that global resources to counter disease emergence are poorly allocated, with the majority of the scientific and surveillance effort focused on countries from where the next important EID is least likely to originate.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health

TL;DR: These phenomena have two major biological implications: many wildlife species are reservoirs of pathogens that threaten domestic animal and human health; second, wildlife EIDs pose a substantial threat to the conservation of global biodiversity.
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Bats are natural reservoirs of SARS-like coronaviruses.

TL;DR: It is reported that species of bats are a natural host of coronaviruses closely related to those responsible for the SARS outbreak, and these viruses display greater genetic variation than SARS-CoV isolated from humans or from civets.
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Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America.

TL;DR: Experimental data support the conclusion that cutaneous chytridiomycosis is a fatal disease of anurans, and it is hypothesize that it is the proximate cause of these recent amphibian declines.