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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… forest rodents like chipmunks, are what scientists call reservoir hosts. They are the long-term hosts of the Lyme pathogen, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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New study identifies bird species that could spread ticks and Lyme disease
… to know which traits make certain animals good pathogen hosts. Here, we used machine learning to assess bird species … . These bird species are considered ‘competent’ reservoir species because they are known to infect feeding … were found to have a significantly greater likelihood of competence compared to other taxa. This finding suggests …
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The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases
… diversity in a biodiversity-rich region provides a range of hosts, many incompetent, for the pathogen. The presence of a range of hosts and incompetent reservoir hosts “dilutes” the risk of exposure to … depends upon the pathogen transmission mode and how host competence scales with body size, he says. “We also found …
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Bats not the enemy in the fight against COVID-19
… SARS-CoV-2. “Coronaviruses are reported from several vertebrate species and they are normally very host-specific. … suggest previous scientific thinking—that certain animal reservoirs, such as bats, pose a heightened risk of … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …
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Squirrels could make monkeypox a forever problem
… of them can. Building the case for an animal reservoir tends to require years of fieldwork, rigorous … protocols, and a good deal of luck. For a few viruses, the reservoir narrative is relatively neat: Hendra virus, an … And the more opportunity the virus has to infiltrate new hosts, the more opportunity it has to expand its species …
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A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate change
… now that short-tailed shrews might be a very important reservoir host for this,” he said, adding that … with the virus. “But we don’t know whether one of those hosts is more important than others in terms of infecting …
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Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2
… SARS-CoV-2 to enter host cells, and is found in all major vertebrate groups. It is likely that all vertebrates have … “Secondary spillover allows SARS-CoV-2 established in new hosts to transmit potentially more infectious strains to …
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The Lost Snail of the Yangtze
… the Wilson Dam (center), which replaced the rapids with a reservoir and lock-and-dam system for navigation. (Right) … of Epioblasma catch different species of fish to serve as hosts for their larvae, and we can only guess that these …
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A diversity of wildlife is good for our health
… by pathogens that are shared between humans and other vertebrate animals. But animal species differ in their … landscapes with more animal diversity, these risky reservoirs are less abundant and biodiversity has a … tend to proliferate. Research has found that mammal hosts of zoonotic viruses are less likely to be species of …
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Is the coronavirus pandemic related to meat production?
… a zoonotic coronavirus, meaning it came from some nonhuman vertebrate. These animals shed virus in their feces and … the bat analog. So, it seems pretty clear that the initial reservoir was in bats, but what the pathway to humans …
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