Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals

Public Health Measures to Slow Community Spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019

(2020) Benjamin J Cowling et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals

(2020) Noah Snyder-Mackler et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying SARS-CoV-2 transmission suggests epidemic control with digital contact tracing

(2020) Luca Ferretti et al.   SCIENCE

Sounds of sickness: can people identify infectious disease using sounds of coughs and sneezes?

(2020) Nicholas M. Michalak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social network-based distancing strategies to flatten the COVID-19 curve in a post-lockdown world

(2020) Per Block et al.   Nature Human Behaviour

Disease avoidance, and breeding group age and size condition the dispersal patterns of western lowland gorilla females

(2019) Alice Baudouin et al.   ECOLOGY

Lassitude: The emotion of being sick

(2019) Joshua M. Schrock et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Parasite-induced plasticity in host social behaviour depends on sex and susceptibility

(2019) Jessica F. Stephenson   Biology Letters

Social Immunity: Emergence and Evolution of Colony-Level Disease Protection

(2018) Sylvia Cremer et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

The behavioral immune system is designed to avoid infected individuals, not outgroups

(2018) Florian van Leeuwen et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Sickness-induced lethargy can increase host contact rates and pathogen spread in water-limited landscapes

(2018) Mathias Franz et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

A landscape of disgust

(2018) Sara B. Weinstein et al.   SCIENCE

The Anatomy of Friendship

(2018) R.I.M. Dunbar   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Parasite Avoidance

(2018) J.C. Buck et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Transmission risk predicts avoidance of infected conspecifics in Trinidadian guppies

(2018) Jessica F. Stephenson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Cancer- and behavior-related genes are targeted by selection in the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)

(2018) Jean-Noël Hubert et al.   PLoS One

Social environment mediates cancer progression in Drosophila

(2018) Erika H. Dawson et al.   Nature Communications

Social living simultaneously increases infection risk and decreases the cost of infection

(2018) Vanessa O. Ezenwa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social network plasticity decreases disease transmission in a eusocial insect

(2018) Nathalie Stroeymeyt et al.   SCIENCE

The kiss of death: three tests of the relationship between disease threat and ritualized physical contact within traditional cultures

(2017) Damian R. Murray et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

Selection to outsmart the germs: The evolution of disease recognition and social cognition

(2017) Sharon E. Kessler et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Urbanization and Disease Emergence: Dynamics at the Wildlife–Livestock–Human Interface

(2017) James M. Hassell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Parasites and Their Social Hosts

(2017) Paul Schmid-Hempel   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Accepted monitoring or endured quarantine? Ebola contacts' perceptions in Senegal

(2017) Alice Desclaux et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Mandrills use olfaction to socially avoid parasitized conspecifics

(2017) Clémence Poirotte et al.   Science Advances

Parasite stress and pathogen avoidance relate to distinct dimensions of political ideology across 30 nations

(2016) Joshua M. Tybur et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Host behaviour–parasite feedback: an essential link between animal behaviour and disease ecology: Table 1.

(2016) Vanessa O. Ezenwa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites

(2016) L. Wilfert et al.   SCIENCE

Social living mitigates the costs of a chronic illness in a cooperative carnivore

(2015) E. S. Almberg et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Are juvenile Caribbean spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus) becoming less social?

(2015) Michael J. Childress et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Implications of the behavioural immune system for social behaviour and human health in the modern world

(2015) M. Schaller et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Measured voluntary avoidance behaviour during the 2009 A/H1N1 epidemic

(2015) Jude Bayham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Behavioral Immunity Suppresses an Epizootic in Caribbean Spiny Lobsters

(2015) Mark J. Butler et al.   PLoS One

Behaviour of hibernating little brown bats experimentally inoculated with the pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome

(2014) Alana Wilcox et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Why are you so slow? – Misattribution of transmission delay to attributes of the conversation partner at the far-end

(2014) Katrin Schoenenberg et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES

Host group formation decreases exposure to vector-borne disease: a field experiment in a 'hotspot' of West Nile virus transmission

(2014) B. L. Krebs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors

(2013) Matthew Pantell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

Parasite infection and host group size: a meta-analytical review

(2013) JESSE E. H. PATTERSON et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Facebook Use Predicts Declines in Subjective Well-Being in Young Adults

(2013) Ethan Kross et al.   PLoS One

Social isolation, loneliness, and all-cause mortality in older men and women

(2013) A. Steptoe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Do Animals Living in Larger Groups Experience Greater Parasitism? A Meta-Analysis

(2012) Joanna L. Rifkin et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality: The cases of strong family ties and heightened religiosity

(2012) Corey L. Fincher et al.   BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

House finches (Carpodacus mexicanus) balance investment in behavioural and immunological defences against pathogens

(2012) M. Zylberberg et al.   Biology Letters

Sociality, density-dependence and microclimates determine the persistence of populations suffering from a novel fungal disease, white-nose syndrome

(2012) Kate E. Langwig et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biting injuries and transmission of Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease

(2012) Rodrigo K. Hamede et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Disease and the dynamics of extinction

(2012) H. McCallum   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Review of Panulirus argus virus 1—a decade after its discovery

(2011) DC Behringer et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Community structure and the spread of infectious disease in primate social networks

(2011) Randi H. Griffin et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

A review on self-destructive defense behaviors in social insects

(2011) J. R. Shorter et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Increased risk of mortality associated with social isolation in older men: only when feeling lonely? Results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)

(2011) T. J. Holwerda et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE

Social behavior drives the dynamics of respiratory disease in threatened tortoises

(2010) Lori D. Wendland et al.   ECOLOGY

The costs of family and friends: an 18-month longitudinal study of relationship maintenance and decay

(2010) Sam G.B. Roberts et al.   EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR

The Changing Disease-Scape in the Third Epidemiological Transition

(2010) Kristin Harper et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Nosemasp. influences flight behavior of infected honey bee (Apis mellifera) foragers

(2009) Jasna Kralj et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Ancient behaviors of larval amphibians in response to an emerging fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2008) Barbara A. Han et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Thermal benefits of clustering during hibernation: a field test of competing hypotheses onMyotis sodalis

(2008) J. G. Boyles et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY