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  2. Natural reservoir - Wikipedia

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    Cows are natural reservoirs of African trypanosomiasis. In infectious disease ecology and epidemiology, a natural reservoir, also known as a disease reservoir or a reservoir of infection, is the population of organisms or the specific environment in which an infectious pathogen naturally lives and reproduces, or upon which the pathogen primarily depends for its survival.

  3. Spillover infection - Wikipedia

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    The bumblebee is a potential reservoir for several pollinator parasites. Commercially bred bumblebees used to pollinate greenhouses can be reservoirs for several pollinator parasites including the protozoans Crithidia bombi, and Apicystis bombi, [10] the microsporidians Nosema bombi and Nosema ceranae, [10] [11] plus viruses such as Deformed wing virus and the tracheal mites Locustacarus ...

  4. Disease reservoir - Wikipedia

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    Disease reservoir may refer to: Natural reservoir , the long-term host of the pathogen of an infectious disease Fomite , any inanimate object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms

  5. Wild chimpanzees adapt genetically to different habitats - AOL

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    Chimpanzees are considered endangered because of habitat destruction, poaching, and infectious diseases. The total population in the wild is estimated at about 170,000 to 300,000, according to the ...

  6. Eradication of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    The targeted pathogen must not have a significant non-human (or non-human-dependent) reservoir (or, in the case of animal diseases, the infection reservoir must be an easily identifiable species, as in the case of rinderpest). This requires sufficient understanding of the life cycle and transmission of the pathogen.

  7. Infectious Disease Doctors Concerned About the First U.S ...

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    There are also several types of H5N1 bird flu, and they can cause different levels of disease, says Amesh A. Adalja, M.D., an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins ...

  8. Did body in Rochester reservoir for nearly a month pose ... - AOL

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    Infectious disease expert Dr. Stephen Liang described the risk of potential public health threats from the discovery of a dead person in Highland Park reservoir as “exceedingly low ...

  9. Infection - Wikipedia

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    An infectious disease, also known as a transmissible disease or communicable disease, is an illness resulting from an infection. Infections can be caused by a wide range of pathogens , most prominently bacteria and viruses . [ 2 ]