All Articles Tagged As: viruses

Bee disease a mystery (7/4/2008)

Scientists are one step closer to understanding the recent demise of billions of honey bees after making an important discovery about the transmission of a common bee virus. ...> Full Article

Researchers find human virus in chimpanzees (6/6/2008)

After studying chimpanzees in the wilds of Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park a research team has produced powerful scientific evidence that chimpanzees are becoming sick from viral infectious diseases they have likely contracted from humans. ...> Full Article

Ugandan monkeys harbor evidence of infection with unknown poxvirus (4/26/2008)

Researchers report this month that red colobus monkeys in a park in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox ...> Full Article

Wildebeest or malaria parasite - same rules determine number of offspring (1/16/2008)

Wildebeest Whether you are dealing with the number of wildebeest on the Serengeti or the number of malaria parasites in the human body, new research shows the same ecological framework determines breeding numbers and population size. New research published today (15 January) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Fellow shows that the same community ecology principles that determine how different animal species on the savannah affect each other's population sizes through competition for food and hunting by predators also affect parasite species interacting within the microcosm of a single host. ...> Full Article