Publications by authors named "Susie Cant"
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- West Nile Virus (WNV) primarily infects birds but can spill over to humans, leading to varying clinical symptoms, including severe neuroinvasive diseases, with mosquitoes being the main vector.
- The extrinsic incubation period (EIP), or the time it takes for infected mosquitoes to spread the virus, varies with temperature, which significantly affects WNV transmission dynamics.
- New analysis using Bayesian models shows that higher temperatures reduce the EIP significantly, with the fastest spread observed at 32ºC, and identifies a competitive advantage of the WN02 strain over NY99, particularly in cooler conditions.
Until the early twentieth century, populations on many Pacific Islands had never experienced measles. As travel to the Pacific Islands by Europeans became more common, the arrival of measles and other pathogens had devastating consequences. In 1911, Rotuma in Fiji was hit by a measles epidemic, which killed 13% of the island population.
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