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Posted on: Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 22:47 CST Infectious diseases on the rise as species disappear Plant and animal extinctions are detrimental to your health. That's the conclusion of a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Nature by scientists who studied the link between biodiversity and infectious diseases. Species loss in ecosystems such as forests and fields results in increases in pathogens, or disease-causing organisms, the researchers found. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF)-National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID) Program. The NSF contribution to the EID Program is supported primarily by its... read full article
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