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Articles
 
2006.....2005 ....2004      2003     2002-1998

2007
West Nile killing off beloved U.S. birds: Study
Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters, May 17, 2007 Html

West Nile virus depletes bird species from coast to coast
Anita Manning, USA Today, May 16, 2007 Html

West Nile virus decimates suburban birds
Seth Borenstein, Assoicated Press, May 16, 2007 Html

2006
Study: Look south for bird flu
CNN.com, December 4, 2006 Full text

Scientists criticize bird flu search
Libby Quaid, The Boston Globe, December 4, 2006 Html

International ecology group starts in city
Ron Seely, Wisconsin State Journal, October 10, 2006 Full text

The Galapagos Islands Kiss Their Goat Problem Goodbye
Jerry Guo, Science, September 15, 2006 Full text

Evolutionary Tinkering
Scott Norris, Conservation Magazine, July-September, 2006 (Vol 7 No 3) Html

Clarion call to save amphibians
BBC News, July 7, 2006 Html

When the robin stops bobbin' along
Lois A. Levin, Town Online, July 5, 2006 Full text

Clues on West Nile Sought at Local Bird Paradises
Cheryl Lyn Dybas, The Washington Post, June 26, 2006 Html

The Real Bat Man Story
Gareth Cook, Boston Globe, April 24, 2006 Full text

Going to Bat: Natural Reservoir for Emerging Viruses May be Bats
Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, March 2006 Full text

Deadly Fungus Threatens Beloved Panamanian Frog
Mike Power, Reuters, February 6, 2006 Full text

2005
The Usual Suspects: Some of the efforts to control bird flu could be usefully extended to tackle other emerging human diseases that come from animals
The Economist, November 17, 2005 Html

Sentries in U.S. Seek Early Signs Of an Avian Flu
Donald G. McNeil Jr., NY Times, November 6, 2005 Html

Experts Say Biodiversity is a Form of Global Health Insurance
Rosanne Skirble, The Epoch Times, November 4, 2005 Html

Avian Influenza Is a Threat To Our Collective Security
Donald S. Burke, Wall Street Journal, November 3, 2005 Html

La intrusion humana en el medio ambiente causura nuevas enferedades
EFE News, Spain, October 26, 2005 Full text

Biodiversity is 'global insurance against disease'
One World UK, 2005 Html

Hablaran Expertos De Prevencion De Enfermedades Como La Gripe Aviar
Alberto Rabilotta, Notimex, October 25, 2005 Full text

Biodiversity may help slow disease spread
Alister Doyle, ABC News, October 25, 2005 Html

West Nile On the Potomac
Paul Bedard, U.S. News and World Report, October 10, 2005 Html

2 Teams Identify Chinese Bat as SARS Virus Hiding Place
Lawrence K. Altman, New York Times, September 30, 2005 Full text

Finding the Source of SARS
Nancy Shute, U.S. News and World Report, September 29, 2005 Html

Batting a Thousand
Katharine Wroth, Grist, September 29th, 2005 Html

The nature of emerging zoonotic diseases: ecology, prediction and prevention
Scott Newman, Jon Epstein and Lisa Schloegel, Medical Laboratory Observer, July 2005 Html

Out of Africa, a baffling variety of diseases
Scott Calvert & David Kohn, Baltimore Sun, May 15, 2005 Full text

The Amazing Adventures of Colossus
Tracker News, Spring 2005, Volume 6, Issue 1 Html

A Plague on All Houses: West Nile virus threatens wildlife as well as humans
Gordy Slack, Sierra Magazina, January/February 2005 Html

2004
Conservation Medicine
Lisa Schloegel & Peter Daszak, Wildlife Tracks, Fall 2004 Full text

Hawaii Girds Itself for the Arrival of West Nile Virus
Erik Stokstad, Science, October 22, 2204 Full text

Nipah's Return: The lethal "flying fox" virus may spread between people
Charles Choi, Scientific American, September 13, 2004 Html

Forest Loss Makes Monkeys Sick
Erik Stokstad, Science, 2004 305: 1230-1231

Emerging zoonoses on the rise
Bridget M. Kuehn, JAVMA, July 1, 2004 Html

Bait Salamanders, virus linked
William Hermann, The Arizona Republic, August 28, 2004 Full text

Animal outbreak system updated
Charles Q. Choi, The Scientist, May 24, 2004 Html

Charity worker bids to play animal name game
News in Brief, Nature, Vol 429, May 13, 2004 Full text

Dinner, Pets, and Plagues by the Bucketful: The burgeoning trade in wild animals is leading to an ecodisaster
Janet Ginsburg, The Scientist , Volume 18, Issue 7, April 12, 2004 Html

A Virus Crosses Over to Wild-Animal Hunters
Edna Francisco, Science News Online, April 3, 2004 Html

Primate Viruses Transmitted Through Bushmeat
Tim Parsons, The JHU Gazette, March 22, 2004 Html

Primate virus spreads to humans
BBC News, March 19, 2004 Html
 
Bats suspected in disease outbreak
Leslie Bienen, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2004 Full text
 
Embedded in Nature: Human Health and Biodiversity
Environmental Health Perspectives, January 2004, Volume 112, Number 1 Html
 
Wildlife Trade Can Threaten Human and Animal Health
PNN Online, January 15, 2004 Html
 
SARS Scapegoat? China Slaughtering Civet Cats
Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic News , January 9, 2003 Html
 
Anatomy of an Outbreak: Mad cow, mad elk, mad cat...Can we end the madness?
Mary Pearl and Jonathan Epstein, San Francisco Chronicle, January 5, 2005 Html
 
2003
The Pet Offensive
Paul Elledge, Audubon, Dec 2003 Html
 
Lost Forest Fuels Malaria: Conservation and medicine collide in the jungle
Helen Pearson, Nature, November 28, 2003 Html
 
Galapagos Lab
Charles Q. Choi, The Scientist , August 12, 2003 Html

Conservation Medicine: Combining the Best of All Worlds
Environmental Health Perspectives, August 2003, Vol 111 No. 10 Html
 
Scientists Search for Human Hand Behind Outbreak of Jungle Virus
Peter Fritsch, Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2003, Page One Full Text
 
A host of scary new viruses: Scientists warn of outbreaks in which humans, animals collide
Anita Manning, USA Today, June 9, 2003 Html
 
After West Nile Virus
Susan Milius, Science News , March 29, 2003; Vol. 163 No. 13 Html
 
Air Sickness
Laura Tangley, National Wildlife , April/May 2003: 39 Full text
 
Crossing the Species Barrier
Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe, 29 Apr. 2003 Full text
 
Lethal W. Nile marching on
Diedtra Henderson, The Denver Post, 18 Feb. 2003: 1B & 3B Html
 
Deadly New Virus Draws Experts to "Hot Zones"
Bijal P. Trivedi, National Geographic Today, 21 Jan. 2003 Html
 
 
2002
Amphibian Fungus Spread by Humans?
Adam Bostanci, Science Now , 19 July 2002 Html
 
Bioterrorism Could Threaten US Agriculture, Biodiversity
Alison Gillespie, ESA News Source, Spring 2002
 
 
2001
Rapid spread of infections puts wildlife at risk
Cheryl Lyn Dybas, The Washington Post , 18 Mar. 2001: A07
 
 
2000
New diseases threaten humans and wildlife
Alex Kirby, BBC News Online, 19 Oct. 2000 Html
 
Germs and sickness in a shrinking world
Laura Tangley, U.S. News & World Report 20(64) 22 May 2000: 64
 
Wildlife infections on rise
Randolph E. Schmid, ABC News, 20 Jan. 2000
 

1998
Newly found fungus is tied to vanishing species of frog
Carol Kaesuk Yoon, The New York Times 28 Jun. 1998: A15 Full text