Biodiversity Loss: Detrimental to Your Health

Biodiversity Loss: Detrimental to Your Health
Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:52:00 -0600

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 ...

More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=118114&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

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