Posts tagged "Dengue fever"
Fungal Disease Killing Bats: This is Bad For You, Bad For Your Pets
North America’s most common bat, the little brown myotis, may be all but extinct in the northeastern United States in 16 years, due to a rapidly-spreading fungal infection, according to a story in Live Science. The fungus, called the white-nosed syndrome grows on the exposed skin of bats as they hibernate. Little brown myotis bat... Read more »
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August 9, 2010 at 12:41 pm
August 9, 2010 at 12:41 pm
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Attack of the Killer Parasites!
According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, our pets – and potentially all of us – may be susceptible to a new laundry list of illnesses spread by parasites. Most of these parasites were previously solely associated with the developing world, but are now cropping up in the U.S. Some of the infections... Read more »
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May 24, 2010 at 8:43 am
May 24, 2010 at 8:43 am
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