Paul W. Ewald is an Evolutionary biologist, specializing in the evolution of infectious disease.
He notes that a growing body of peer reviewed studies published in mainstream scientific journals has shown that many common diseases of unknown origin are in fact caused by the presence of slowly acting viruses. For example, cervical cancer is caused by the human papilloma wart virus; some cases of liver cancer are caused by hepatitis C or B; Schizophrenia may be caused by Borna virus. His research extends these findings to a wide variety of human ailments.
He received his B.Sc. in 1975 from the University of California, Irvine, in Biological Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of Washington, in Zoology, specialization in Ecology and Evolution.
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease, Anchor, 2002, ISBN 0385721846
Popular articles about Paul W. Ewald
Steve Mirsky, Profile: Paul W. Ewald, A Host with Infectious Ideas May 2001, Scientific American
Academic books and articles by Paul W. Ewald
Transmission Modes and the Evolution of Virulence, with special reference to Cholera, Influenza, and AIDS, in Human Nature, Volume 2, Number 1 (1991) pp. 1-30
Evolution of Infectious Disease, Oxford University Press, 1996, ISBN 0195111397
Emerging pathogens: Insights from evolutionary biology, Emerging Infectious Diseases 2:245-257. Ewald, P. W. 1995.
The evolution of virulence: a unifying link between ecology and parasitology Journal of Parasitology 81:659-669.
Ewald, P. W. 1996 Vaccines as evolutionary tools: The virulence-antigen strategy In, CONCEPTS IN VACCINE DEVELOPMENT, (S. H. E. Kaufmann, ed.), Walter de Gruyter & Co:Berlin, pages 1-25.
Alternative transmission modes and the evolution of virulence Paul W. Ewald and Guilio De Leo, in Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management Series: Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics (No. 2), Edited by Ulf Dieckmann, 2002, ISBN-10: 0521781655
Virulence Management in Humans Paul W. Ewald, in Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseases: In Pursuit of Virulence Management Series: Cambridge Studies in Adaptive Dynamics (No. 2), Edited by Ulf Dieckmann, 2002, ISBN-10: 0521781655
