<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/bc06a2a2-727b-4543-af42-9a31cfe7c5e1/EF10210D-467A-4578-A52F-334CC84D3C12/" 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://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327154.800-disease-runs-riot-as-species-disappear.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327154.800-disease-runs-riot-as-species-disappear.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327154.800-disease-runs-riot-as-species-disappear.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health"><P class="infuse">COULD biodiversity protect humans from disease? Conservationists have long suspected it might, and now they have the evidence to back this up.</p> <P class="infuse">Keeping complex ecosystems intact is thought to pay big dividends, by preserving natural balances among species that keep animal diseases in check. These includes zoonoses - <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16722460.100-get-talking.html">animal diseases that affect humans</A>.</p> <P class="infuse">Rodents in the Americas carry hantaviruses, which can be lethal to people who inhale them from dried droppings. Some 500 people a year in the US die after being infected with the "sin nombre" hantavirus (SNV) from the common deer mouse.</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://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327154.800-disease-runs-riot-as-species-disappear.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health">Unlike Lyme disease, hantaviruses spread directly between the animals they affect. "This is the first time anyone has shown anything like this in a directly transmitted disease,</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://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327154.800-disease-runs-riot-as-species-disappear.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health">Dizney suspects that the more mammal species there are, the closer mice stick to their home territories, as many of the mammals are predators, so mice encounter and infect each other less often</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/EF10210D-467A-4578-A52F-334CC84D3C12/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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