41. Researchers suspect a fungus is behind rapid wasting disease and various bacteria are implicated in other new coral diseases. 42. Scientists are continuing laboratory tests to see whether the new disease can indeed kill this beloved species, or whether something else is in the redwood shoots. 43. Scientists have fought new diseases spread by trade, travel and technology before. 44. Since baboons carry viruses that might infect humans, there is a potential risk that the baboon marrow transplant could transmit a devastating new disease to humans. 45. Some new diseases will need new treatments. 46. Supervised by Johnson, his Cornell mentor, Pape set up a local group to study the new disease and soon won federal financing. 47. That year, Shlim also reported on the new disease at the first meeting of the International Society of Travel Medicine in Atlanta. 48. That year Shlim also reported on the new disease at the first meeting of the International Society of Travel Medicine in Atlanta. 49. The dogwoods present yet another example of a beautiful native tree bedeviled with new disease problems that is being elbowed aside by a tougher foreign cousin. 50. The federal government should step up its monitoring of new disease microbes and their acquisition of antibiotic resistance, McCaig and Hughes say. |
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