Green Options » epidemic http://greenoptions.com/tag/epidemic Posts tagged 'epidemic' Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:06:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Koalas Threatened with AIDS-like Epidemic: Extinction Looms http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/22/koalas-threatened-with-aids-like-epidemic-extinction-looms/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/22/koalas-threatened-with-aids-like-epidemic-extinction-looms/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:06:32 +0000 Rhishja Larson http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/22/koalas-threatened-with-aids-like-epidemic-extinction-looms/ Koala image for article about koala retrovirus, AIDS epidemic threatening extinction

Wildlife experts fear that the spread of an AIDS-like virus could force already threatened koalas into extinction.

Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) populations are in serious decline - victims of habitat loss, domestic dog predation, vehicular deaths, and bushfires.

Sadly, a new and deadly danger is facing the iconic koala: The koala retrovirus.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/09/22/koalas-threatened-with-aids-like-epidemic-extinction-looms/feed/ Swine Flu Kills Over Half A Dozen in India http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/10/swine-flu-kills-over-half-a-dozen-in-india/ http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/10/swine-flu-kills-over-half-a-dozen-in-india/#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:41:35 +0000 Govind Singh http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/10/swine-flu-kills-over-half-a-dozen-in-india/ Over half a dozen people have died in India with swine flu in the last one week. Newer cases are being reported by the hour even as a nation wide alert has been sounded. The Swine Influenza Virus (SIV) that was first reported in citizens returning from abroad has now spread in all parts of the country.

Swine Flu Outbreak in India

Cities that are worst hit are closing schools, shopping malls, theaters and other public places. Screening centers authorized for carrying out the H1N1 test are flooded with unwell people eager to get tested even as the Government struggles to keep panic at bay.

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]]> http://ecoworldly.com/2009/08/10/swine-flu-kills-over-half-a-dozen-in-india/feed/ About 90% of Bats Wiped Out in Connecticut http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/19/about-90-of-bats-wiped-out-in-connecticut/ http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/19/about-90-of-bats-wiped-out-in-connecticut/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:24:39 +0000 Jake Richardson http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/19/about-90-of-bats-wiped-out-in-connecticut/ Little brown bat

A white fungus is devastating the bats of Connecticut and other Northeastern states.

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]]> http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/03/19/about-90-of-bats-wiped-out-in-connecticut/feed/ Fungal Plague Could Threaten Global Wheat Supply http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/19/fungal-plague-could-threaten-global-wheat-supply/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/19/fungal-plague-could-threaten-global-wheat-supply/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:28:41 +0000 Kay Sexton http://redgreenandblue.org/2009/02/19/fungal-plague-could-threaten-global-wheat-supply/ wheatfield

In Kenya there’s a quiet disaster happening, and it’s reaching epidemic proportions. Stem rust, a wheat destroying fungal infestation that was ‘wiped out’ in the West half a century ago, has resurfaced in Africa and already transmitted its fatal pathogen as far as Iran.

So far, agronomists are unable to control its spread and have no clear line on the only alternative treatment method: finding resistant varieties of wheat and breeding them – fast.

The destructive potential of stem rust follows on actual food riots in Mexico and Africa in 2008, and lays bare how fragile the food supply is in poorer nations. It should also make us stop and think about the way our own staple foods could be vulnerable – if this stem rust travels as far as America and Europe, where monoculture is almost universal, and if our wheat varieties are susceptible, there could be no bread. Not expensive bread, or rationed bread. Simply - no bread.

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