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Are Humans and Beasts Too Close for Comfort?
Title: Are Humans and Beasts Too Close for Comfort?
Category: Literature / English
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Are Humans and Beasts Too Close for Comfort?
Are Humans and Beasts Too Close for Comfort?
Are humans and animals in too close contact for disease dispersal? This question that is asked in the May 2000 article, Germs and sickness in a shrinking world, of “U.S. News online” is one that needs to be looked at very directly. “As globalization shuffles more people, animals, and pathogen-contaminated products around the world, biologists say infections are increasing” (Tangley 1). This shuffling of cultures occurred early with
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parasitism. Symbiotic relationships between parasites and host have been occurring for thousands of years. Diseases caused by such relationships have woven a complex acculturation of different indigenous peoples. The hunters and gathers switching to the agricultural and domestication of animals brought about brand new introductions of disease which was carried from culture to culture.
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**Bibliography**
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000403/skeeters.htm
Morris, Jim
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/000522/animals.htm
Tangley, Laura
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