An update on great ape population health, disease control and outbreak response
2025
Gilardi, Kirsten V. K. |
Düx, Ariane |
Gillespie, Thomas R. |
Kalema-Zikusoka, Gladys |
Leendertz, Fabian H. |
Nze-Nkogue, Chimène |
Patrono, Livia V. |
Raphael, Jane |
Sulistyo, Fransiska |
Kambale Syaluha, Eddy |
Whittier, Christopher A. |
Since publication of the 2015 Great Ape Health Guidelines, great ape tourism has continued to gain in popularity, and landscape conversion continues on a steep trajectory. In addition, there has been a tremendous amount of new scientific research on pathogens that infect wild great apes. Furthermore, the world experienced epidemics of Ebola (in West Africa from 2014–2016 and in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from 2018–2020) and the COVID-19 pandemic (2020–2023).