Impacts of biodiversity and biodiversity loss on zoonotic diseases
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Biodiversity loss and the rise of zoonotic pathogens.
The unprecedented loss of biological diversity from anthropogenic causes has profound impacts on human health. One way that biodiversity loss threatens human health is by exacerbating risk and incidence of infectious diseases. This paper briefly reviews two zoonotic diseases--West Nile virus (WNV) illness and Lyme disease (LD)--in which high diversity in the community of vertebrate hosts for ar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2023540118