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In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
… mosquitoes better at transmitting disease, put residents at risk. Image: Paul Leisnham, a co-author on the study from … can transmit an array of viruses including dengue fever, Zika, chikungunya, Eastern Equine Encephalitis, and West Nile …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… illnesses,” he noted, including babesiosis, the Heartland virus disease, the Bourbon virus disease, anaplasmosis, … it is often in such areas where wildfire poses the greatest risk to human life and property. Of course, people still … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD
West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, … at risk of contracting mosquito-borne diseases like Zika, chikungunya, and West Nile viruses. This study builds on …
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The threat nobody is talking about? Covid spillback
… The Covid-19 pandemic most likely started when a virus jumped from an animal into a human. Now scientists are … warnings can be found in the cases of yellow fever, Ebola, chikungunya and tuberculosis, diseases that were once … to devote more resources towards managing this particular risk, views differ when it comes to the precise strategy …
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Cary to co-lead $4.8M study on how environmental conditions shape viral outbreaks in wild rodents
… to study how changing environmental conditions impact virus transmission in the wild. With $2.9 million in funding from … and enterovirus — many of which pose an elevated risk to humans. “This study will be an important test …
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Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife
… may act as reservoirs, offering new opportunities for the virus to mutate and spill back into people. The omicron … of Food and Agriculture. “In order to know the risk that new variants pose for people, we really have to … paradigm for how society monitors and manages SARS-CoV-2 transmission in animals, said Kramer. The project is …
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Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed, study finds
… by diseases that originate in wild animals, such as HIV, Zika, Sars and Nipah virus. Since the coronavirus pandemic … leads to changes in animal populations that increase the risk of disease outbreaks. The research demonstrates that … of diseases such as West Nile virus and a type of chikungunya virus. Humans have already affected more than …
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Destroyed habitat creates the perfect conditions for coronavirus to emerge
… shrug them off. But in January 1996, Ebola, a deadly virus then barely known to humans, unexpectedly spilled out … and traveled to 30 countries in 2002–03. Some, like Zika and West Nile virus, which emerged in Africa, have … Jones studies how land use change contributes to the risk. “We are researching how species in degraded habitats …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… was among the first animals known to have contracted the virus from a human, likely a caretaker. Some animals … pandemic, Holmes and others told JAMA. Interspecies transmission can produce new animal reservoirs where the … at protecting all species from illness and reducing the risk of new variants, emphasize monitoring mammalian …
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Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2
… Back and forth transmission of SARS-CoV-2 between people and other mammals increases the risk of new variants and threatens efforts to control … of Ecosystem Studies, comments, “SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, originated in an animal before …
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