In the last decades, the incidence of emerging and reemerging infectious diseases have dramatically increased threatening the public health systems worldwide. The appearance of several new pathogens causing disease of marked severity, such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other retroviruses, arenaviruses, hantaviruses, Ebola virus and coronaviruses, as well as the simultaneous re-appearance of old pathogens including those that cause cholera, plague, severe dengue, and yellow fever, are having a considerable impact on the global public health and the economy (Anderson and Gray, 2014). Currently, it is estimated that over 25% of human mortality worldwide is attributable to infectious diseases, which translates in 15 million deaths per year mainly occurring among children (<5 years of age) from developing countries (Michaud, 2009). Recently, the rapid spread of a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-like coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) caused over 200 million of ca...