Future threats: Animal orthoflaviviruses that currently infect fewer than 100 people per year

Emma R Worden-Sapper1, Paul Gendler1, Rachel E Lange2

  • 1Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, 1945 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80309, USA; BioFrontiers Institute, University of Colorado, 3415 Colorado Avenue, Boulder, CO 80303, USA.

Cell Reports
|May 29, 2025
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