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  1. Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise

    … ending the COVID-19 pandemic, Holmes and others told JAMA. Interspecies transmission can produce new animal reservoirs … broader animal surveillance is needed to detect future zoonotic diseases before one of them causes the next … that can prevent spillover into new species. The greatest barrier is a lock-and-key mechanism: the virus’ surface …

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  2. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … are impossible to reckon. Lyme, like Covid-19, is a zoonotic disease, which means it spills from animals into … New Jersey–facing shoreline. Deer have a hard time crossing the highway, and as a result the tick population at … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  3. Engaging stakeholders to close the door on imported forest pests

    Engaging stakeholders to close the door on imported forest pests An alliance of …

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  4. Gary M. Lovett: Scientist, Mentor, Advocate, & Friend

    … pollution, cycle nutrients, and respond to pests and pathogens. His research achievements were matched with a … of academia to take on the threat of forest pests and pathogens. Tree-SMART Trade is an extraordinary legacy. … Ecosystem Studies. Laurie Doss Gary was my next door neighbor and a friend of more than 40 years. When my …

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  5. Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?

    … and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic specifically, the rise of zoonotic pathogens, and how we can enter the future better armed to … the issue, or that can be the issue, of jumping the species barrier. It’s not the only issue. That interaction can …

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  6. Destroyed habitat creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge

    … by a novel coronavirus, are on the rise. Pathogens are crossing from animals to humans, and many are now able to … from non-human animals. Increasingly, says Jones, these zoonotic diseases are linked to environmental change and … for the spread of diseases by reducing the natural barriers between virus host animals — in which the virus …

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  7. Pandemics: Humans are the culprits

    … Nipah is just one of many hundreds of animal-borne, or zoonotic diseases, which have jumped from animals to humans … in now,” said Johnson. By breaking down the natural barriers between species and destroying biodiversity, she says, we have opened the door, not just to COVID-19, but potentially to many more …

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  8. Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19

    … at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. “These pathogens cause zoonoses with high case fatality rates in … are therefore likely to have fewer viruses. The number of zoonotic viruses seems also to follow this same pattern,” … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …

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  9. Caught on Camera: Our Wildlife Neighbors

    … camera videos help build a case for constructing wildlife crossing bridges in the Hudson Valley? A.   … camera, it's like going downstairs on Christmas morning and opening a present, because you never know exactly what's … a gap in the stone wall that certainly seems to be a barrier. And yet other species like these raccoons seem to …

  10. Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem

    … the virus to set up shop in a new animal host. One lasting interspecies hop, akin to the one that SARS-CoV-2 has made …

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