Sacred Cows and Sympathetic Squirrels: The Importance of Biological Diversity to Human Health
Open Access
- 6 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 3 (6), e231
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030231
Abstract
Dobson and colleagues describe how some host species act to reduce the risk of transmission of virulent zoonotic pathogens to humans.Keywords
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