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3 unusual facts about Natural reservoir


Disease reservoir

Natural reservoir, the long-term host of the pathogen of an infectious disease

Echinochloa

Both affect many other grass species, in particular most important cereals, and Echinochloa weeds may serve as a reservoir.

Ship Sanitation Certificate

Ship sanitation certificates can be of two types: Ship Sanitation Control Exemption Certificates (SSCEC) are issued to vessels that have passed inspection that verifies that the ship is free of animal vectors, potential disease reservoirs or ill humans.


Adolfo Lutz

Lutz was the first Latin American scientist to study in depth and to confirm the mechanisms of transmission of yellow fever by the Aedes aegypti species of mosquitoes, its natural reservoir and vector, as they had been discovered a few years before, by American physician Walter Reed.


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Duvenhage virus

Microbats are believed to be the natural reservoir of Duvenhage virus.