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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… West Nile Virus , …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… illnesses,” he noted, including babesiosis, the Heartland virus disease, the Bourbon virus disease, anaplasmosis, … also a Lyme carrier, is confined to pockets of the West Coast—are primarily forest creatures. These ticks … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the …
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How to stop the next pandemic
… other, and on how we can slow or stop the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19. But I want to take a moment to … for studying this virus in the lab. A few, like West Nile virus and avian influenza, come from birds. Almost …
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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 … traveled to 30 countries in 2002–03. Some, like Zika and West Nile virus, which emerged in Africa, have mutated and become …
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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 … albopictus ) and native Culex species (principally the northern house mosquito, Culex pipiens) which are known …
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Beech Bark Disease
… nearby and start the epidemic of beech bark disease in North America. Beech bark disease has been spreading … Smoky Mountains of Tennessee/North Carolina and as far west as Wisconsin. While it has not yet reached the entire … bark disease in North America: Over a century of research revisited. Forest Ecology and Management 394:86–103. 2 …
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Low-income Baltimore blocks host bigger, more dangerous mosquitoes
… worrying implications for the spread of diseases such as West Nile virus , dengue and chikungunya. And some places are …
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Deadly diseases from wildlife thrive when nature is destroyed, study finds
… in wild animals, such as HIV, Zika, Sars and Nipah virus. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, there have been … Such birds can be reservoirs of diseases such as West Nile virus and a type of chikungunya virus. Humans have …
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Pandemics: Humans are the culprits
… hundreds of miles away – near a town called Sungai Nipah, west of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here, tens of thousands of … found that bats arriving in Malaysia carried the Nipah virus, which they had passed to the pigs in the fruit and … ticks which infect people with Lyme disease and West Nile virus in the US, thrive in recently deforested land, …
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The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases
… increase in host diversity, says Patil, citing examples of West Nile Disease and Lyme Disease whose incidence has been … between tick and white-footed mouse. The West Nile Virus is a mosquito-borne disease in which the primary …
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