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Nebraska ecology professor connects contagions to climate change
2015-03-09 10:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Big Ten Network: When new and potentially catastrophic contagious diseases like West Nile Virus and swine flu periodically emerge, research scientists and medical practitioners alike scramble to figure out the best ways to contain and end these epidemics. However, discussions about how these illnesses start and spread have generally ignored the issue of climate change. Until now. Daniel Brooks, an ecology professor and senior research fellow at the University of Nebraska, has spent the past 30 years identifying,...
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