Sentences with phrase «contact with human pathogens»

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As people move into formerly wild areas, local pathogens increasingly come into contact with new domesticated animal hosts — freshly arrived pigs, chickens, horses — and, eventually, humans.

Globalisation has resulted in the movement of humans and animals all across the world, bringing pathogens into contact with hosts that haven't had the opportunity to establish resistance.

Seven new pathogens are identified worldwide each year, and this is predicted to reach 15 - 20 every year by 2020 because of increased human contact with wildlife species that are potential reservoirs of disease.

«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Nathan Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.

«As far as I am aware, this is the first time that researchers have found that an invasive predator (such as the python) has caused an increase in contact between mosquitoes and hosts of a human pathogen,» said Burkett - Cadena, a faculty member with the UF / IFAS Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach, Florida.

But as human contact with wildlife becomes more frequent and people continue to encroach on habitat, wild animals are being exposed to human pathogens more than ever.

The animals, which live in close contact with humans across the region, carry a wide variety of astroviruses, pathogens that commonly cause diarrhea in people and can also infect the kidney, liver, and brain, researchers report this week in PLOS Ppathogens that commonly cause diarrhea in people and can also infect the kidney, liver, and brain, researchers report this week in PLOS PathogensPathogens.