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THU, 24 SEPT · 98 ITEMS
"The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases" — Nature (current) · Science & Medicine
This is a Nature paper, likely from Colin Carlson's group, that quantifies the anthropogenic (human-caused) fingerprint on — i.e., how human land-use change, wildlife trade, livestock density, and other ecosystem disruptions, rather than blind chance, shape where and how pathogens spill over from animals into people. It moves beyond the '' framing to argue that outbreak risk is widespread and driven by measurable human activity, not just ecological geography.
Primary source claim: this is the actual peer-reviewed paper in Nature with a DOI (10.1038/s41586-026-11058-6), so the findings are solid as reported by the journal. The same research was posted as a medRxiv preprint in May 2024, so this is the peer-reviewed version of an analysis that has circulated for over two years; specifics of the final quantitative results should be read from the published article rather than the preprint.
Published in Nature on 2026-09-23, which is genuinely new as a journal publication — though the core analysis first appeared as a preprint in May 2024, so the underlying research is roughly two years old.