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Nature 452, 282 (20 March 2008) | doi:10.1038/452282a; Published online 19 March 2008
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Professor of Experimental Transplantation Surgery (W2) - Limited to 6 Years
- Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena
- Jena 07740 Germany
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- University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Birmingham, AL
Wildlife disease can put conservation at risk
Darrick T. Evensen1
- Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
In their Letter 'Global trends in emerging infectious diseases' (Nature 451, 990–993; 2008), Kate Jones and colleagues reveal that emerging human infectious diseases are becoming globally more prevalent, particularly those originating from wildlife. Even when cases of all other transmission types started to decrease during 1990–2000 compared with previous decades, cases of wildlife-associated human diseases continued their upward trend.
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