Archive for October, 2014

Taking Fruit Bats off the Dinner Menu Will Help Stop Ebola – Take Part

October 24, 2014 A better answer in an age of emerging diseases is not…

Did environmental decline help the spread of Ebola? Toronto Star

October 19, 2014 The Ebola epidemic besieging West Africa may be the starkest warning…

Did Deforestation Pave the Way for Ebola Outbreak? Discovery News

October 16, 2014 Deforestation might have a role in this year’s outbreak of Ebola…

Why Bats Are Such Good Hosts for Ebola and Other Deadly Diseases – Dr. Kevin Olival interviewed by Wired

October 15, 2014 In a 2013 study, Olival and colleagues examined the virome of…

New York City Rats Found Carrying 18 New Viruses – Dr. Peter Daszak comments on new research for ABC News

October 15, 2014 It’s a first of its kind of study on rats. The…

Rats and Their Alarming Bugs – The New York Times interviews Dr. Peter Daszak

October 14, 2014 Recently, a team of pathogen hunters at Columbia University went on…

Framing Biodiversity and Health

October 10, 2014 The Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the…

Isolating Ebola-affected nations could worsen outbreak, experts say

October 10, 2014 Experts say closing U.S. borders to Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia…

Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola

October 9, 2014 Scientists say that more than six out of 10 infectious diseases…

EcoHealth Alliance Elects Simona Skerjanec to its Board of Directors

NEW YORK – October 2, 2014 EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on…