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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … thus ensuring its continued presence in the reservoir host population. After that, in their third and final form, … was experiencing eye problems, perhaps due to the lingering effects of Lyme. To help me understand how the town of … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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  2. The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases

    … transmission. The rationale is that greater host diversity in a biodiversity-rich region provides a range of … with body size, he says. “We also found that dilution effects occurred for most frequency-transmitted pathogens …

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  3. A diversity of wildlife is good for our health

    A diversity of wildlife is good for our health To … Infectious Diseases A … development tends to increase the abundance of zoonotic host species, bringing people and risky animals closer …

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  4. Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife

    Infectious Diseases , … five-year research project will bring together virology, disease ecology, and artificial intelligence to better … surveillance efforts, for example by identifying potential host species that need to be managed or by immediately …

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  5. Ecology and artificial intelligence: stronger together

    … AI and help to solve complex global challenges, such as disease outbreaks, loss of biodiversity, and climate change … does population density affect the number of cases of an infectious disease? The problem is that, like most complex … models, AI can incorporate greater amounts of data and a diversity of data sources, and that might help us discover …

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

    … before being transmitted to a still-unknown intermediate host—pangolins and racoon dogs have been suspected, among … animals to human populations over millennia. Yet an infectious disease paradigm that places humans at the … the scientists predicted that animals would congregate in biodiversity hotspots, particularly at higher elevations. …

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  7. A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change

    A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change … a serious bout of the illness continue to experience the effects of the disease, such as loss of muscle mass and … short-tailed shrews might be a very important reservoir host for this,” he said, adding that white-tailed mice, …

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  8. Helium balloons impose a toll on our air, land, and sea

    … are readily transported by air and water currents. The effects of microplastics on aquatic life are not well understood, and investigation is complicated by the great diversity of particle composition, size and time in the … meaningful messages (perhaps a native pollinator garden) or host a tree planting. If you do buy or encounter helium …

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  9. Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem

    … Chewy, a prairie dog, had by that point succumbed to the disease, which he’d almost certainly caught in an … traits that made Monkey a charismatic pet also made him an infectious threat. He cuddled and nibbled his owners; when … an opportunity for the virus to set up shop in a new animal host. One lasting interspecies hop, akin to the one that …

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  10. Low-income Baltimore blocks host bigger, more dangerous mosquitoes

    Low-income Baltimore blocks host bigger, more dangerous mosquitoes Tiger … have to bite at least once to become infected with disease-causing microorganisms and again to pass them on to … between 2005 and 2010, possibly because of the lingering effects from the 2008 housing crisis. The number has since …

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