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Biodiversity and Health Extinction by Infection: Biodiversity makes a difference.

by | 3.2.2011 at 2:19pm | 2 Comments
Photo by U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center. This Laysan albatross chick has small pox nodules on the face and eyelid.

Throughout the past several decades, countless species have been infected by non-native deadly diseases and ultimately crashed in numbers. A survey of important case studies highlight the importance of mitigating the virulence of the planet’s pathogens.