title: Toward an activist agenda for monitoring virus emergence.
abstract: The continuing emergence of arboviruses such as chikungunya virus requires thoughtful attention and approaches for risk management. Incorporating experimental evolutionary studies, as described in this issue by Stapleford et al. (2014), has the potential to move public health toward a more proactive agenda for predicting and responding to disease emergence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology Immunology and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, 1690 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Electronic address: gregory.ebel@colostate.edu.
authors.forename: Gregory D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Ebel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001102:Arbovirus Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D001103:Arboviruses / Q000472:pathogenicity* / Q000502:physiology*; D009033:Culicidae / Q000821:virology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans