Deworming programs in animal, human populations may have unwanted impacts

Thursday, January 8, 2015 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

A study of the effects of worming medications on infectious disease in wildlife herds showed an unexpected and alarming result - it helped reduce individual deaths from a bovine tuberculosis infection, but hugely increased the potential for spread of the disease to other animals.

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