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Ebola, Dengue fever, Lyme disease: The growing economic cost of infectious diseases
![health worker with biohazard gear on](/news/mmg/media/images/Ebola USAID_f.jpg)
Stopping Ebola in its tracks calls for rapid control measures; long-term, is there a better way?
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![Scientist Peter Daszak surrounded by roosters and hens at a farm in China.](/news/mmg/media/images/sDSC01200_f.jpg)
Scientist Peter Daszak studies infectious disease transmission at a chicken farm in China.
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![illustration showing animals, insects, trees and houses.](/news/mmg/media/images/biodiversity_loss1_fec81406-bb62-4739-9d2b-d391c0b65c0e_f.jpg)
Our interaction with the environment is likely responsible for increasing infectious diseases.
Credit: NSF/Nicole Rager-Fuller
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![Mosquito on skin](/news/mmg/media/images/Aedes_aegypti_bitinguman_Wikimedia Commons3_f.jpg)
Mosquitoes transmit the virus that causes the often-deadly disease dengue fever.
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![maps showing north and south americas and counries at risk of dengue fever](/news/mmg/media/images/map3-1-dengue-western-hemisphere_CDC3_f.jpg)
Dengue fever is on-the-march across the Western Hemisphere, appearing in new regions.
Credit: CDC
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Where ticks are, Lyme disease may follow. Lyme is now rampant in many northeastern U.S. states.
Credit: NASA
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