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News Release 10-187
Ecology of Infectious Disease Grants Awarded by NSF, NIH
Scientists to research connections between infectious diseases and land use, global warming and other environmental changes
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EID scientists study livestock movements and disease transmission in Chad, Central Africa.
Credit: Rebecca Garabed
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A herder in an African floodplain stands in front of his family's encampment and cattle.
Credit: Rebecca Garabed
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Elk play an important role in the spread of the bacterial disease Brucellosis in Yellowstone.
Credit: National Park Service
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Brucellosis has been eradicated from most of the U.S., but remains throughout Yellowstone.
Credit: National Park Service
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Elkhorn coral, affected by reverse zoonosis--disease transmitted from humans.
Credit: NOAA
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A mosquito acquires a blood meal; mosquitoes are the primary vector for dengue fever.
Credit: U.S. Centers for Disease Control
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Otters are at the heart of a complex disease transmission process that links land and sea.
Credit: USGS
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Individual hosts are often infected with multiple pathogens, as in the English grain aphid.
Credit: Elizabeth Borer and Mikal Davis
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A disease-carrying gypsy moth caterpillar on a leaf of one of its favorite trees, the red oak.
Credit: Alison Hunter
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Gypsy-moth virus causes the insects to melt onto foliage, releasing more virus particles.
Credit: Alison Hunter
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