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Disease and the Changing Environment: What is Environmental Disease?

Disease and the Changing Environment: What is Environmental Disease?

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DATE : Mon, 19 Nov 2007 05:00:00 -0500
Entered in Database : 2007-11-19 10:00:00
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Changes in the world around us can alter the relationships between organisms in the environment. In this seminar we will discuss the delicate balance between plants, animals and microbes which live around (and on!) each other. Global warming, long-distance transportation, and industrial agriculture have far-reaching consequences, including on the spread of disease-causing organisms. What does this mean for the environment and for human health? Primrose Boynton discusses just what exactly environmental disease is, and how it affects us.

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