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Human disturbance affects the disease dynamics of a place through its effect on the prevalence of host and parasite species in the geography, a study finds. The study published in Ecology Letters attributes this to persistence of parasite communities which tend to inhabit multiple host species, thereby increasing the risk of emergence of infectious diseases. […]