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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
How Lyme disease became unstoppable There was nothing … outside his home, a black-legged tick had injected the infectious organisms into his bloodstream. Anderson—who … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… don’t know where it came from,” Barbara Han , PhD, a disease ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies … animals to human populations over millennia. Yet an infectious disease paradigm that places humans at the … dice out there to be rolled forever,” she said. “You just never know when you might roll the combination that …
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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 … disease transmission depends on many variables, not just one, explained co-author Shannon LaDeau , a disease …
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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 … only uses a small piece of each virus sequence — just the part that binds with the ACE2 receptor on the …
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A diversity of wildlife is good for our health
… Infectious Diseases A … areas with high levels of biodiversity are hotspots for disease. More animal diversity must equal more dangerous … to people tend to be found in many animal species, not just one. They’re jumpers, after all, and they typically …
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Why is this virus different?
… the Covid-19 crisis by Dr. Felicia Keesing, an expert in disease ecology. Please note that the situation is … it can also spread to new hosts. This is called the infectious period . The immune system of an infected host … all together, SARS-CoV-2 appears to be shed at high rates just as symptoms are beginning, and sometimes before …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… discovery. Among them was a model that Cary Institute disease ecologist Shannon LaDeau created 15 years ago … of what we were considering.” “It's basically just a statistical model to isolate the signal of trend — … LaDeau. “Climate change is speeding things up. This is another piece of evidence showing that climate impacts are …
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Human impact on the environment may make pandemics more likely, experts warn
… pose myriad threats to our health and well-being. It's not just viruses. April 2, 2020 CBS … Infectious Diseases … took over the headlines, the possibility of a new disease emerging out of nowhere and spreading around the …
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Pandemics: Humans are the culprits
… rains finally doused the fires, a mysterious, deadly disease broke out hundreds of miles away – near a town … down by seizures and headaches. To stop the new, highly infectious disease spreading, nearly a million pigs had to … Bats are well-known reservoirs of many viruses and – just as they have been linked to the emergence of deadly …
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… amount of suffering all over the world from this particular disease that left Pandora’s box and can’t get back in." … arrived migrants to the major cities who, one way or another, need to meet their protein needs. This is a … barriers; there are ecological barriers; and they’re just being smashed by the supply chain of wild animals. And …
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