Konstans Wells

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May 9, 2019

How humans interact with the changing environment is affecting the spread of infectious disease

Konstans Wells, Swansea University and Nicholas J Clark, The University of Queensland

The way humans share the world with wildlife has rapidly changed – and this is having a serious impact on the spread of pathogens.

Dogs and cats spread their fleas to many other species. Shutterstock

January 17, 2018

Our dogs and cats are spreading fleas around the world (and to us)

Nicholas J Clark, The University of Queensland; Jan Slapeta, University of Sydney, and Konstans Wells, Griffith University

Everywhere humans go, we take our pets. Fleas are along for the ride, spreading everything from typhus to bubonic plague.

Aggressive behaviour exhibited by socially dominant Tasmanian devils may predispose them to infection with devil facial tumour disease. Sebastien Compte/University of Tasmania

May 11, 2017

Survival of the fittest? Perhaps not if you’re a Tasmanian devil

Konstans Wells, Griffith University; Andrew Storfer, Washington State University; Douglas Kerlin, Griffith University; Hamish McCallum, Griffith University; Menna Elizabeth Jones, University of Tasmania; Paul Hohenlohe, University of Idaho, and Rodrigo Hamede, University of Tasmania

It’s the Tasmanian devils that enjoy the highest survival and breeding success who’re more likely to get the fatal facial tumour disease.

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How humans interact with the changing environment is affecting the spread of infectious disease

Our dogs and cats are spreading fleas around the world (and to us)

Survival of the fittest? Perhaps not if you’re a Tasmanian devil

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