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![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107053329im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) Press Release 08-160 NSF, NIH Award Ecology of Infectious Disease Grants
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Scientists to study links between environmental changes, spread of infectious diseases
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![Roosting bats in a village in Bangladesh are connected to an outbreak of Nipah virus there.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107053329im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/eid_village_f.jpg) |
Roosting bats in a village in Bangladesh are connected to an outbreak of Nipah virus there.
Credit: Jon Epstein, Center for Conservation Medicine |
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![Date-palm gatchers in Bangladesh, who tap trees for sap, may link Nipah virus, bats and humans.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107053329im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/eid_palmgatcher_f.jpg) |
Date-palm gatchers in Bangladesh, who make a living tapping date palm trees and selling the sap as a sweet drink, may be a link between Nipah virus-carrying bats and humans.
Credit: Jon Epstein, Center for Conservation Medicine |
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![This army of ticks looking for hosts may carry anaplasmosis, an infectious disease in humans.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107053329im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/eidtickarmy_f.jpg) |
This army of ticks looking for hosts may be carrying anaplasmosis, an infectious disease in humans.
Credit: Felicia Keesing, Bard College |
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![EID scientists are studying West Nile virus transmission in songbirds.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107053329im_/http://nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/eidbird2_f.jpg) |
EID scientists are studying West Nile virus transmission in songbirds.
Credit: Tony Goldberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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