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News Release 14-118
Racing ahead of disease outbreaks: $12 million in new research grants
NSF, NIH, partners support studies of how diseases spread among humans, other animals and the environment
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Interactions between the environment and humans may foster the spread of infectious diseases.
Credit: NSF/Nicole Rager-Fuller
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EEID awardees will study landscape structure and diseases in species like Florida panthers.
Credit: U.S. National Park Service
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The transmission of mycobacteria in agricultural systems is the focus of an EEID grant.
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The risk of animal and plant infectious diseases spreading through trade is growing.
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EEID scientists will conduct research on disease resistance in fish such as trout and salmon.
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Ants are a model system for studying processes that influence transmission of infectious diseases.
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