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  1. How Lyme disease became unstoppable

    … Then humans disrupted the environment and fueled an era of tick-borne diseases. Photo by Spongetastic69 … Oggenfuss, opens one and reaches inside to reveal a small rodent, shivering, docile, its black eyes wide with fear. It … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …

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

    … other communities, among them the Hubbard Brook Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) community, the Catskill … Cary Institute, he was a postgraduate fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (1981-83) and a research associate at … generous way during my 2-years research at Cary. I loved sampling with you at the beautiful Catskills & enjoyed very …

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  3. Scientists say this tick season may not be bad, but the risk of Lyme is higher

    Scientists say this tick season may not be bad, but the risk of Lyme is higher … that this year’s mild winter could lead to an explosive tick season, you can breathe a sigh of relief. The harshness … average, Ostfeld says. This year, there’s a boom in that rodent population, most likely due to the abundance of …

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  4. West Nile virus infection risk is higher in less affluent neighborhoods in Baltimore, MD

    … income. Graduate student Kaitlin Saunders checks a mosquito trap in Baltimore, Maryland. Collected mosquitoes … Mosquito-borne Disease In … standing water for breeding, and access to blood-meals from rodents, cats, and birds can put nearby residents at risk of …

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  5. Catching the next pandemic early: the coronavirus is one example

    … An intimidating image of a mosquito, magnified about 1,000 times larger than life, … mood matched the topic: the highly infectious animal-borne diseases that threaten hundreds of millions of people … animal is a human disease reservoir. For example, in her rodent reservoir study, she looked at 2,277 rodent species …

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

    … virus). So, understanding what drives the spillover of bat-borne viruses is, therefore, an easily justifiable research … general, the number of viruses in any animal group (bats, rodents, carnivores, primates, etc) scales with the number … would be so much easier and safer. Virologists get quick publications easily from bats and bats have few defenders …

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

    … Threat Research suggests that outbreaks of animal-borne and other infectious diseases like Ebola, SARS, bird … People living close by are more likely to get bitten by a tick carrying Lyme bacteria,” he says. Yet human health … rats and dozens of species of bird, mammal, insect and rodent slaughtered and sold close to open refuse dumps and …

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  8. Community Ecology of Lyme Disease (LTREB)

    … the complex interactions between variable acorn production, rodent populations, and ticks that carry Lyme disease. Our … prevalence of ticks with Lyme disease bacteria and other tick-borne pathogens presence of rodent predators tick … and protect local populations. Publications

  9. Forest ecology shapes Lyme disease risk in the eastern US

    … Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low numbers of resident fox, opossum, … from an analysis of 19 years of data on the ecology of tick-borne disease in a forested landscape, recently published in …

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  10. Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America

    Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America In conversation with Cary … discusses her new book: Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America . In Beaverland , Philip reveals … shaped history, culture, and our environment. She tells the ecological story of how this unusual rodent, once trapped to …