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Land of Lemurs and Other Strange Things

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National Geographic

Publication Date
2013-06-03

Young Explorer Cara Brook is in Madagascar studying the impact of human land development on biodiversity and how it could potentially spread infectious diseases that are transmitted from animals to people. Cara will focus on bubonic plague in small mammals and henipaviruses and lyssaviruses (two strains of viruses) in bats.

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http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/06/02/land-of-lemurs-and-other-strange-things/