Animal Diseases a Growing Human Health Threat (2)

1 Name: Sling!XD/uSlingU 2006-02-21 02:30 ID:Heaven

http://www.healthcentral.com/newsdetail/408/1507799.html
"Animal diseases that mutate and infect humans are a growing global health threat, scientists warn.

Over the past 25 years, there have been 38 diseases that have made the jump from animals to humans, scientists note. Each year over the past quarter century, at least one new pathogen and numerous variations of existing pathogens have infected humans for the first time, the Associated Press reported.

"Humans have always been attacked by novel pathogens. This process has been going on for millennia. But it does seem to be happening very fast in these modern times," Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, said at a weekend news conference at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science."

2 Name: vipper 2006-02-21 02:34 ID:RBHjXdsx

really?

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