Quantifying Trends in Disease Impact to Produce a Consistent and Reproducible Definition of an Emerging Infectious Disease

• Sebastian Funk,

  Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Tiffany L. Bogich,

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America, EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Kate E. Jones,

  Affiliations Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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• A. Marm Kilpatrick ,

  * E-mail: akilpatr@ucsc.edu (AMK); daszak@ecohealthalliance.org (PD)

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America

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• Peter Daszak

  * E-mail: akilpatr@ucsc.edu (AMK); daszak@ecohealthalliance.org (PD)

  Affiliation EcoHealth Alliance, New York, New York, United States of America

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