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Ecology of Infectious Diseases
Lyme disease transmission is related to forest ecology.
The Ecology of Infectious Diseases (EID), a joint National Science Foundation-National Institutes of Health program supports efforts to create a predictive understanding of the ecological and biological mechanisms that govern relationships among human-induced environmental changes and the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases.
Interdisciplinary projects funded by EID will study how large-scale environmental events--such as habitat destruction, biological invasion and pollution--alter the risks of viral, parasitic and bacterial diseases emerging in humans and animals. These studies will allow public-health officials, wildlife managers and farmers to control the spread of diseases among humans, domestic and wild animals, and crops, say EID scientists.
This image accompanied NSF press release, "NSF, NIH Award Ecology of Infectious Diseases Grants."
Credit: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
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