Viruses and humankind: intracellular symbiosis and evolutionary competition / Joshua Lederberg
Examining the origins of emerging viruses / Stephen S. Morse
Viral emergence in historical context
Patterns of disease emergence in history / William H. McNeill
Influenza / Robert G. Webster
Emerging viruses in context: an overview of viral hemorrhagic fevers / Karl M. Johnson
Viruses and the host
Ecology and evolution of host-virus associations / Robert M. May
Pathogenesis of viral infections / Bernard N. Fields
Virus and cell: determinants of tissue tropism / Thomas E. Shenk
Seeing the unseen: methods for detecting viruses
Virus detection systems / Douglas D. Richman
New technologies for virus detection / David C. Ward
Tracking emerging viruses
Assessing geographic and transport factors, and recognition of new viruses / Robert E. Shope and Alfred S. Evans
Phylogenetic moments in the AIDS epidemic / Gerald Myers, Kersti MacInnes and Lynda Myers.

(cont) Ecological sources of emerging viruses
Arthropod-borne viruses / Thomas P. Monath
Hantaan (Korean Hemorrhagic Fever) and related rodent zoonoses / James W. LeDuc ... [et al.]
Filoviruses / C.J. Peters ... [et al.]
Interspecies transfer: case studies of animal viruses that recently crossed species
Human monkeypox, a newly discovered human virus disease / Frank Fenner
Seal plague virus / Brian W.J. Mahy
Canine parvovirus 2: a probable example of interspecies transfer / Colin R. Parrish
How viruses evolve: variation and evolution of RNA viruses
Replication error, quasispecies populations, and extreme evolution rates of RNA viruses / John Holland
High rate of retrovirus variation results in rapid evolution / Howard M. Temin
Evolution of influenza and RNA viruses / Peter Palese
Factors restraining emergence of new influenza viruses / Brian Murphy
Recombination in the evolution of RNA viruses / James H. Strauss
Evolutionary relationships of vectors and viruses / Bruce F. Eldridge.

(cont) Prospects for the future
Global change and epidemiology: nasty synergies / Thomas E. Lovejoy
Are we prepared for a viral epidemic emergency? / Llewellyn J. Legters, Linda H. Brink and Ernest T. Takafuji
Surveillance systems and intergovernmental cooperation / Donald A. Henderson
Afterword: a personal summary presented as a guide for discussion / Edwin D. Kilbourne.