Link:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071130234322.htm
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is causing many toads to be extinct. This is a deadly chtrid fungus. It has already beagan to kill many amphibans around the world, mainly in Australia, South America, and the UK.
Why is this species endangered? Because of a fungal disease.
What could prevent this organism from going extinct? They haven't found a way to control this disease at this moment.
List three things you learned from this article in your own words. I learned that frogs are seen as an important bio-indicator and it acts as an early warning system for environmental problems.
What impact would the absence of this organism have on its ecosystem/community? Climate changes can make the frogs immune systems weak, it can produce air and waterbourne pollutants such as herbicides, habitat loss, and it could make more infections.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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Human Diseases
Link:http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/05/25/chimpsiv_hea.html?category=health&guid=20060525092402
Twenty-five years after AIDS was first discovered, scientists have found out were HIV came from. They came from wild chimpanzees in Cameroon. It took alot of years and hard work to discover this.
What are the symptoms of this disease? The person with this disease doesn't show symptoms until 5 or 6 years later and the symptoms are chest pain, cough, fatigue, fever, headache, rash, abdominal pain, shortness of breath,night sweats, vomitting, diarreah, weight loss, failure to get children, ect.
How is this disease passed from person to person? sexually, by birth, needles, ect.
List three things you learned from this article in your own words. I learned that HIV came from a chimpanzee, I also learned that the first human to be infected with HIV was from Kinsshasa
What impact does this disease have on the US economy? The government takes money out of our checks to help pay for their medicine & their medicine costs alot of money . I think that this is destroying the U.S.
Twenty-five years after AIDS was first discovered, scientists have found out were HIV came from. They came from wild chimpanzees in Cameroon. It took alot of years and hard work to discover this.
What are the symptoms of this disease? The person with this disease doesn't show symptoms until 5 or 6 years later and the symptoms are chest pain, cough, fatigue, fever, headache, rash, abdominal pain, shortness of breath,night sweats, vomitting, diarreah, weight loss, failure to get children, ect.
How is this disease passed from person to person? sexually, by birth, needles, ect.
List three things you learned from this article in your own words. I learned that HIV came from a chimpanzee, I also learned that the first human to be infected with HIV was from Kinsshasa
What impact does this disease have on the US economy? The government takes money out of our checks to help pay for their medicine & their medicine costs alot of money . I think that this is destroying the U.S.
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