Chapter 1 Comments on the life and contributions of Robert E. Shope

Chapter 2 Virus perpetuation in populations: biological variables that determine persistence or eradication

Chapter 3 The virus-immunity ecosystem.

Chapter 4 Host range, amplification and arboviral disease emergence.

Chapter 5 Regulation of rodent-borne viruses in the natural host: implications for human disease.

Chapter 6 Population dynamics of RNA viruses: the essential contribution of mutant spectra

Chapter 7 Control of arbovirus diseases: is the vector the weak link?

Chapter 8 Pathogenesis of Rift Valley fever virus in mosquitoes — tracheal conduits & the basal lamina as an extra-cellular barrier

Chapter 9 The virulence of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus: unraveling the enigma

Chapter 10 The spread of the H5N1 bird flu epidemic in Asia in 2004.

Chapter 11 Transient or occult HIV infections may occur more frequently than progressive infections: changing the paradigm about HIV persistence

Chapter 12 Ehrlichia under our noses and no one notices

Chapter 13 The role of reverse genetics systems in determining filovirus pathogenicity

Chapter 14 Structural biology of old world and new world alphaviruses

Chapter 15 Species barriers in prion diseases — brief review

Chapter 16 Academic science and the business of vaccines

Chapter 17 Emerging infectious diseases: the public’s view of the problem and what should be expected from the public health community