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Infectious animals

By Amanda Leigh Mascarelli / April 17, 2013

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Critters spread many germs that can sicken each other — and even kill people

Posted in Animals, Body & Health | Tagged AIDS, bush meat, bushmeat, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Columbia University, Ebola, EcoHealth Alliance, ecology, emerging infectious disease, epidemic, epidemiology, feature, flu, Hendra virus, HIV, Ian Lipkin, Influenza, Jonathan Epstein, Kristine Smith, Melissa Miller, microbiology, Nipah virus, pathogen, Salmonella, salmonellosis, SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome, simian immunodeficiency syndrome, SIV, topstories, vaccination, vaccine, zoonosis, zoonotic

The AIDS virus that vanished

By Stephen Ornes / March 18, 2013

This photo shows HIV infecting a T-cell, which usually fights off infections in the human body. Credit: NIH/NIAID

Strong medicine may have rid a newborn of deadly HIV

Posted in Body & Health | Tagged acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS, Boston, Daniel Kuritzkes, epidemiology, getinvolved, Harvard Medical School, HIV, human immunodeficiency virus, infection, infectious virus, Mississippi, topstories, vertical transmission, viral cure, virus

Bird malaria moves north

By Stephen Ornes / October 10, 2012

Black-capped chickadees, like the one shown here, stay in Fairbanks, Alaska, year-round. Scientists report that some of the birds have been found with avian malaria, suggesting that the germ that causes the disease has established itself in the far North. Credit: Mdf/wikipedia

Germs that cause a so-called tropical disease make themselves at home in frosty Alaska

Posted in Animals | Tagged Adaptation, avian malaria, birds, blood, climate change, disease, disease ecology, ecology, epidemiology, evolution, getinvolved, global warming, malaria, microbes, microbiology, mosquito, parasite, protozoa, Ravinder Sehgal, Robert Fleischer, San Francisco State University, Smithsonian Institution, tropical disease

Airports that speed germs’ spread

By Stephen Ornes / August 13, 2012

A computer simulation of a disease outbreak shows that airports like those in New York City and Los Angeles would help spread germs. Credit: Christos Nicolaides/MIT

Scientists identify which U.S airports are able to spread disease most effectively

Posted in Body & Health | Tagged airports, disease, epidemic, epidemiology, germs, getinvolved, Honolulu, infections, Los Angeles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, New York, Ruben Juanes, swine flu, vaccination