NSF News - Biodiversity Loss: Detrimental to Your Health - 3 views
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Nancy Trautmann on 06 Dec 10Plant and animal extinctions are detrimental to your health. That's the conclusion of a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Nature by scientists who studied the link between biodiversity and infectious diseases. Species loss in ecosystems such as forests and fields results in increases in pathogens, or disease-causing organisms, the researchers found.