<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/11462b1a-df68-4f9b-8481-fb6ea74abe28/603CCB9D-8B31-4854-96A4-476525098154/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/2009/05/11/duck-duck-human/" href="http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/2009/05/11/duck-duck-human/" style="font-size: 11px;">journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/2009/05/11/duck-duck-human/"><H1><A rel="bookmark" href="http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/2009/05/11/duck-duck-human/" linkindex="535">Duck, Duck, Human?</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/2009/05/11/duck-duck-human/"><P><STRONG>Biodiversity protects people from animal pathogens</STRONG> <IMG height="227" width="340" alt="dreamstime_850698" src="http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/wp-content/dreamstime_850698.jpg" title="dreamstime_850698" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-908" /> Some of the scariest infectious diseases are those that pass from animals to people. Some swine flus can fit the bill, and there are many others, such as SARS, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease. Researchers have now reported what they say is the first experimental proof of the theory that preserving biodiversity actually reduces the transmission of these dangerous pathogens.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://journalwatch.conservationmagazine.org/2009/05/11/duck-duck-human/">In Panama, researchers trapped random populations of small mammals at 24 sites and then removed some species that do not naturally harbor the virus, mimicking biodiversity loss in the forest. What was left were a higher proportion hantavirus-infected individuals and denser populations of rodents capable of incubating the bug</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/603CCB9D-8B31-4854-96A4-476525098154/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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