spillover: animal infections and the next human pandemic pdf

No, Is the Subject Area "Medical risk factors" applicable to this article? However, the rodent is predicted to be less prevalent along coastal areas of West Africa and southern Nigeria. Another factor that could influence our model fit is the possibility that rodent species other than M. natalensis serve as reservoirs or interact with the primary reservoir in ways that decrease or increase risk. ), predatory (hunting, butchering or consuming wild game) or research context. These analyses were derived using Mathematica. Because effective planning of interventions requires that these components of risk be disentangled, we developed a multi-layer machine learning framework that separates these processes. Writing – review & editing, Affiliation Writing – original draft, At least in Guinea and Sierra Leone, research on the population dynamics of M. natalensis indicates that density fluctuations are much weaker than those in East Africa [83]. (2), At steady state, the total population size in a pixel is P* = S* + I* + R*. Research has proved the importance for continued clinical veterinarian education on occupational risks associated with musculoskeletal injuries, animal bites, needle-sticks, and cuts. In fact, for many 'human' diseases, the human is actually better viewed as an accidental or incidental victim and a dead-end host. Though the mechanism by which rainfall affects viral prevalence is unclear, it has been hypothesized, for example, that wetter conditions might facilitate the virus’ ability to survive outside the host [4]. Our approach begins by training models to predict the geographic range of the primary reservoir and the subset of this range in which the pathogen occurs. We only include predictors for which the null hypothesis is rejected at the α = 0.05 level. Please expand the article to include this information. Dots indicate locations in which M. natalensis were surveyed for the virus. If the virus jumped to humans through a series of human-animal encounters in the wild or in wet markets, as Beijing has claimed, we would likely have seen evidence of people being infected elsewhere in China before the Wuhan outbreak. Between 664,300–843,800 (i.e., 74–94%) of these infections are expected to be sub-clinical or asymptomatic, leaving 53,900–233,400 infections that might require hospitalization [17]. The layered framework we have developed can be easily adapted to include additional reservoir species and systematically investigate these possibilities. Even prior to SARS-CoV-2, the spillover of pathogens from animal reservoirs was a persistent problem, with pathogens such as Ebola, Nipah, and Lassa regularly but unpredictably causing outbreaks. Given the data that are currently available, our model suggests that these countries should be prioritized for surveillance of LASV emergence in rodents and at-risk human populations. 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The spillover risk predicted by the product of these reservoir specific models is then fit to data on realized patterns of historical spillover into the human population. Though M. natalensis is widely distributed across all of Africa, the species consists of multiple clades that likely differ in their ability to serve as hosts to LASV [20, 21]. 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Although it is known that certain broad regions of West Africa have a long history of LASV spillover (e.g., Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria), relatively little is known about the prevalence of LASV in rodents or humans in other regions (e.g., Togo, Benin, Mali, Burkina Faso). The notebook file is available in the github repository [23]. If human factors like housing type can be readily identified from serosurvey locations within West Africa, they could be incorporated in the human stage of the model that connects spillover risk to human seroprevalence. The dataset was established by an extensive review of LASV literature. As reported on 21 April, the most common symptoms of COVID‐19 reported in Europe are fever/chills (49%), dry or productive cough (24%), sore throat (12%), general weakness (8%), pain (7%), rhinorrhoea (4%) and diarrhoea (2%). However, because the majority of EIDs from wildlife originate in low and middle income regions with limited disease surveillance, accurately estimating the rate and geographical range of pathogen spillover, and therefore the risk of new EIDs, is a major challenge [1]. ASM Press. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. e1008811. Each risk layer of the first stage is generated by a separate boosted classification tree (BCT). Infectious Diseases Transmissible from Animals to Humans. Examples include rabies, anthrax, tularemia and West Nile virus. Copyright: © 2021 Basinski et al. [8] In contrast, transmission can also occur via an intermediate species (referred to as a vector), which carry the disease pathogen without getting sick. Namely, we omit from the collection all Murid occurrences that are within the genus Mastomys. In doing so, we test whether human seroprevalence is significantly associated with the probability DX that a pixel contains LASV-infected M. natalensis. Yes An important weakness of existing approaches, however, is that they generally rely on combining human and reservoir infection data during the training process and thus conflate risk attributable to the prevalence of the pathogen in the reservoir population with the risk attributed to the realized rate of spillover into the human population. With this data, for example, more advanced models could mechanistically associate an increasing rate of spillover with changes to land cover. LASV infection causes mortality in a fraction μ = 0.02 of non-nosocomial infections [17]. For instance, the use of rodent-proof housing materials (e.g., concrete vs mud) and abstaining from rodent hunting and consumption are known to affect the extent to which LASV is able to transmit between rodents and humans [16, 80]. Fitting the model with these eight pixels included as presences is an option in the code on the github repository, but does not substantially affect the overall fit of the model [23]. Once inferred from the training process, the learned relationships between disease presence and the environment can be extended across a region of interest. Such isolation would have caused epidemic diseases to be restricted to any given local population, because propagation and expansion of epidemics depend on frequent contact with other individuals who have not yet developed an adequate immune response. The DM layer is constructed by averaging the predictions of 25 boosted classification tree models. In Pakistan, until 5th September 2020, a total of 6342 deaths have been reported, of which 1255 were from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province. Next, we used an epidemiological model, based on the classic susceptible-infected-recovered framework, to derive an equation that relates a given LASV spillover rate into humans and the resulting seroprevalence in a human population. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008811.s001. Though M. natalensis is believed to be the primary reservoir that contributes to human infection, several species of rodents are known to be capable of harboring the virus [48]. We trained each model on a dataset comprised of 27 absence locations and 27 presence locations, sampled from the full dataset with replacement. (1987) (λ = 0.064 yr−1). For the DM layer, we trained 25 boosted classification trees to learn how environmental predictors influence the suitability of a habitat for M. natalensis. Some evidence for this latter possibility comes from arenavirsues that preferentially infect certain clades of M. natalensis [21]. Specifically, the multimammate rat Mastomys natalensis is believed to be responsible for most of the transmission into the human population, either through consumption of food contaminated by rodent feces and urine or through hunting and consumption of the rodent reservoir itself [16]. To allow the model the possibility to learn these relationships, we include predictors that describe MODIS land cover features as predictors, and also include human population density within each pixel. rats, mice, pigs, horses, goats, sheep, cattle, buffaloes, opossums, raccoons, mongooses, foxes, dogs, direct or indirect contact with urine of infected animals, 1616–20 New England infection: Present day in the United States–Native Americans; Killed around 90–95% of (, deer, wolves, dogs, birds, rodents, rabbits, hares, reptiles, direct contact with contaminated soil and surface water, contact with infected rodents, primates, or contaminated materials, direct contact with infected bats, infected pigs, macaws, cockatiels, budgerigars, pigeons, sparrows, ducks, hens, gulls and many other bird species, livestock and other domestic animals such as dogs and cats, inhalation of spores, contact with bodily fluid or faeces, commonly – dogs, bats, monkeys, raccoons, foxes, skunks, cattle, goats, sheep, wolves, coyotes, groundhogs, horses, mongooses and cats, through saliva by biting, or through scratches from an infected animal, Variety of places like Oceanic, South America, Europe; Year is unknown, bites of rats but also urine and mucus secretions, mosquito bite, contact with bodily fluids, blood, tissues, breathing around butchered animals or raw milk, kangaroos, wallabies, horses, opossums, birds, flying foxes, A new strain of the influenza virus endemic in pigs (excludes, contact with soil contaminated with feces, ingestion of eggs in soil, fresh or unwashed vegetables or undercooked meat, exposure to cat feces, organ transplantation, blood transfusion, contaminated soil, water, grass, unwashed vegetables, unpasteurized dairy products and undercooked meat, rodents, pigs, horses, bears, walruses, dogs, foxes, crocodiles, birds, infected cattle, deer, llamas, pigs, domestic cats, wild carnivores (foxes, coyotes) and omnivores (possums, mustelids and rodents), milk, exhaled air, sputum, urine, faeces and pus from infected animals, ticks, deer flies, and other insects including mosquitoes, mosquito bite, sexual intercourse, blood transfusion and sometimes bites of monkeys, 2015–16 epidemic in the Americas and Oceanic. The first stage uses environmental features to estimate different layers of LASV spillover risk. The above estimates are based on the premise that, upon recovery from LASV infection, an individual produces antibodies for the remainder of their life. [citation needed], Contact with farm animals can lead to disease in farmers or others that come into contact with infected farm animals. [24] Dirofilariasis is caused by Dirofilaria immitis through mosquitoes infected by mammals like dogs and cats. The rate of seroreversion is difficult to estimate empirically. This criterion excluded surveys of hospitals, for example, as well as surveys of missionaries. Using this framework, we are able to generate predictions of the number of new LASV infections within different regions of West Africa. Generally, these models are trained to associate environmental features with the presence or absence of case reports in humans or the associated reservoir. As with the rodent LASV infection data, arenavirus antibodies are not specific to LASV. Pink dots indicate locations of captures that were used to train the model. Calculating these estimates requires values for d, γ, μ, λ, and P*. The same human activities that drive climate change and biodiversity loss also drive pandemic risk through their impacts on our environment. Roles American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C., 2003. Similarly, the M. natalensis reservoir is also divided into multiple clades [20]. We employ public regional data about reported severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infections for Germany. Writing – review & editing, Affiliation Across 25 fitted models that made up the DL layer, the average AUC was 0.85, with a standard deviation of 0.08. Bats have been recognized as the natural reservoirs of a large variety of viruses. First, several sources were used to identify all countries of West Africa that contain M. natalensis [24–26]. Accurate risk predictions could help guide risk-reduction and behavior-change communication campaigns, the distribution of future human LASV vaccines, and countermeasures directed at the rodent reservoir. Our model is constructed to learn and explain spatial variation in the average historical spillover of LASV, and does not include temporal trends of spillover risk. The increased pressure on ecosystems is being driven by the "exponential rise" in consumption and trade of commodities such as meat, palm oil, and metals, largely facilitated by developed nations, and by a growing human population. Over decades-long timescales, the rate of LASV spillover is likely increasing due to increasing rates of human-rodent interaction that come with urban growth, deforestation, or climate change [11, 70]. EU, Spanish and German Law with Special Consideration of English Law (in German), Hamburg: Verlag Dr. Kovac, ISBN 978-3-8300-4712-4; David Quammen (2013). To connect the new risk parameter DX to human arenavirus seroprevalence, and to evaluate the ability of the DX layer to explain historical LASV spillover in humans, we regressed seroprevalence from human arenavirus serosurveys on the DX layer and an intercept. [31] An August 2020 study published in Nature concludes that the anthropogenic destruction of ecosystems for the purpose of expanding agriculture and human settlements reduces biodiversity and allows for smaller animals such as bats and rats, who are more adaptable to human pressures and also carry the most zoonotic diseases, to proliferate. School of Biomedical and Healthcare Sciences, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom, Affiliation Specifically, a pixel was defined as Lassa positive if, at some point, a M. natalensis rodent was captured within the pixel, and the rodent tested positive for LASV using a RT-PCR assay or viral isolation. College of Natural Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America, Roles Wuhan is more than 1,000 miles north of Yunnan province, where the cave is located. Yes Next, rodent and mammal databases, as well as literature sources, were cross-referenced to fill in details regarding the year of capture, latitude/longitude coordinates, and the method of identification for each location at which M. natalensis was documented [17, 20, 27–42]. Similarly, in recent times avian influenza and West Nile virus have spilled over into human populations probably due to interactions between the carrier host and domestic animals. This AUC indicates that the model has a modest ability to correctly discriminate pixels in which M. natalensis has been captured from background pixels, and is similar to out-of-bag AUC scores obtained in another study with a similar assessment criterion [5]. Furthermore, other species of rodent may displace M. natalensis and therefore lower the overall spillover risk of LASV into humans. Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, UNITED STATES, Received: July 14, 2020; Accepted: February 17, 2021; Published: March 3, 2021. Conceptualization, However, the population of West Africa has increased by a factor of 2.4 since that time, making these estimates outdated [75]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008811.g001. Our predictions indicate that more than half of new human LASV infections (531,700) in West Africa will occur in Nigeria (Fig 6). Each model was fit by selecting 155 presence pixels and pairing these with 155 background pixels in which only non-Mastomys murids were found. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008811.g002. In total, we collected 94 serosurveys from seven studies (Fig 1) [17, 55–60]. While rare in humans, the main public health worry is that a strain of bird flu will recombine with a human flu virus and cause a pandemic like the 1918 Spanish flu. 8 These data are largely from Germany and may not be representative of all COVID‐19 cases. It is of utmost importance to understand how effective various public health measures are. Our full dataset and the script files used to fit the models are available in a github repository [23]. Furthermore, our estimates are based on human seroprevalence data that comes from five countries in West Africa and spans a 45 year time period. First, in the case of LF, due to modern transportation and the longevity of Lassa virus antibodies in humans, a general concern is that the reported location of individual cases of human disease or Lassa virus antibody detection is not the site at which the infection occurred [10–12]. Consequently, a key step in preempting the threat of EIDs is careful monitoring of when and where spillover into the human population occurs. Cryptosporidiosis can be spread to humans from pet lizards, such as the leopard gecko. We chose a threshold of five to help reduce the chance of including false negatives (i.e. [18] Close contact with sheep who have recently given birth can lead to clamydiosis, or enzootic abortion, in pregnant women, as well as an increased risk of Q fever, toxoplasmosis, and listeriosis in pregnant or the otherwise immunocompromised. Due to the sparsity of available longitudinal data, our model assumes that the human population in West Africa, human LASV seroprevalence, and the rate of LASV spillover, are all constant in time. We required that each literature source include information on the diagnostic method that was used to test individuals (e.g., ELISA, IFA) and broad details of the survey design. Department of Mathematics, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America, Affiliation Yes Our results indicate that Nigeria contributes the greatest number of new human infections each year, and that the magnitude of new infections in Nigeria is driven primarily by its greater human population density, rather than an increased per-capita risk. This indicates a model that is good at discriminating between Lassa presences and absences. Encephalitozoon cuniculi is a microsporidial parasite carried by many mammals, including rabbits, and is an important opportunistic pathogen in people immunocompromised by HIV/AIDS, organ transplantation, or CD4+ T-lymphocyte deficiency.[25]. This is in line with previous ecological studies showing that seasonal patterns of precipitation and vegetation are important drivers of seasonal breeding in M. natalensis [79]. The learning rate parameter, which determines the weight given to each successive tree, was set to small values (DM: 10−2, DL: 10−3) that encourage a final model that is composed of many small incremental improvements. In addition, to ensure that the GBIF captures are concurrent with captures of M. natalensis, we only retained captures that occurred in the time-frame of the M. natalensis captures. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008811, Editor: Amy Wesolowski, Zoonoses are of interest because they are often previously unrecognized diseases or have increased virulence in populations lacking immunity. This builds on other work that identified properties of vegetation as important predictors of the range of M. natalensis [5]. Specifically, we calculate the AUC of the fitted model on an equal number of out-of-bag presences and absences. Alternatively, the low correlation could indicate that other predictors like human factors have a large influence on LASV spillover. Recent efforts have begun to make progress in this direction by capitalizing on machine learning methodologies. Applying our method to Lassa virus, a zoonotic pathogen that regularly spills over into the human population across West Africa, results in a model that explains a modest but statistically significant portion of geographic variation in historical patterns of spillover. We used background points chosen from locations where rodents in the family Muridae had been captured in West Africa from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) website [46]. [13][14][15], In 2006 a conference held in Berlin focused on the issue of zoonotic pathogen effects on food safety, urging government intervention and public vigilance against the risks of catching food-borne diseases from farm-to-table dining. A major factor contributing to the appearance of new zoonotic pathogens in human populations is increased contact between humans and wildlife. Yes McCormick et al. No, Is the Subject Area "Wildlife" applicable to this article? In an effort to reduce the frequency of false positives in the training data, pixels that only contain LASV seropositive tests of rodents, and no positive LASV viral detection, were not used as training data. Improving surveillance for LASV across West Africa and developing publicly available resources for sharing the resulting data would allow more robust risk predictions to be developed and facilitate risk reducing interventions. No, PLOS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, #C2354500, based in San Francisco, California, US, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008811, https://github.com/54481andrew/pathogen-spillover-forecast, https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/#geo-regions, https://github.com/54481andrew/pathogen-spillover-forecast.git, http://projects.biodiversity.be/africanmammalia, http://vminfotron-dev.mpl.ird.fr/bdrss/bdrsspub_form.php, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN, https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/western-africa-population/. This form is appropriate if rodent interactions are well-mixed in the human population. In total, we compiled thirteen rodent studies [17, 30, 34, 36, 39, 41, 42, 48–53] that tested M. natalensis for LASV and contained latitude/longitude coordinates. This specific function uses 10-fold cross-validation to determine the number of successive trees that best model the relationship between response and features without over-fitting the data [64]. Pets can also transmit ringworm and Giardia, which are endemic in both animal and human populations. (1987) estimated that λ = 0.064 yr−1 using a longitudinal study of IgG immune markers in individuals. Finally, we only included records that are within the study region depicted in Fig 1 and that fall outside of any pixel that contains a documented M. natalensis. All M. natalensis captures occurred in the time-range 1977—2017. Studies indicate that the duration of LASV infection is typically about one month, so that γ = 12 yr−1 across all pixels [11]. Human-animal interactions and bat coronavirus spillover potential among rural residents in Southern China Biosafety and Health , 1 ( 2019 ) , pp. 2) All LASV infections in humans are caused by contact with infectious rodents. 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