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Daniel R. Brooks
Daniel R. Brooks is Professor of Zoology, University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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Emerging Infectious Diseases
Daniel R. Brooks Series: Health and Medicine 2005-07-27Today’s bio-diversity crisis is not just one of lost habitats and extinct species. It is also a crisis of emerging infectious diseases (EID’s), such as HIV in humans, Ebola in humans and gorillas, West Nile virus and Avian Influenza in humans and birds, chytrid fungi in amphibians, and distemper in sea lions. There is every reason to take these events seriously, because EID’s appear to have a long evolutionary history.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 32028
