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Coillte, who owned twenty forests where the disease was present, felled 16,000 trees in one of its forests, having already felled 150 hectares to contain the disease. [15] In 2023 the disease was found to be infecting larch trees at Wyming Brook , Sheffield, with plans to fell over 1,000 trees to contain the spread of the infection.
Dede Koswara (1971 – January 30, 2016), also known as the "Tree Man", was an Indonesian carpenter with epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV), a rare disease that causes the human papillomavirus (HPV) to grow uncontrollably, leading to the development of warts resembling tree bark. For most of his life, he was shunned for having an unknown disease.
Plant diseases are diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). [1] Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungi , oomycetes , bacteria , viruses , viroids , virus -like organisms, phytoplasmas , protozoa , nematodes and parasitic plants . [ 2 ]
However, 'Princeton' has not proven resistant in Europe, where the main vector of the disease—the larger elm bark beetle, Scolytus scolytus—is capable of introducing far more fungal spores into the tree; many of the 50 trees planted at Highgrove House in the south-west of England in 2006 had died from Dutch elm disease by 2011.
A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. In some parts of the world, the term orphan disease describes a rare disease whose rarity results in little or no funding or research for treatments, without financial incentives from governments or other agencies. Orphan drugs are medications targeting orphan ...
Understanding environmental racism is important. Here, we're breaking down causes, examples and how to fight it.
"Opportunistic" screening by AI can find diseases that doctors weren't looking for [Getty Images] This is the sixth feature in a six-part series that is looking at how AI is changing medical ...
A rare disease is technically defined ... People with rare diseases (14 C, 5 P) A. Absent body parts (3 C, 2 P) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (1 C, 27 P)