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Swaddle to be heard on With Good Reason
College of Â鶹Æƽâ°æ faculty member will be featured in the next week on the radio program, With Good Reason. Swaddle, the Sara Boyd Associate Professor of , discusses in layman’s terms the cycle of vector-borne illnesses such as West Nile disease, and outlines how they develop in wildlife hosts and are transferred to humans by vector pests. The will begin airing Sept. 8 and may be heard through Sept. 14. Broadcast times are posted .
Swaddles's research shows one key to curtailing West Nile disease may lie in increasing the diversity of birds. He notes attracting a variety of birds to your back yard may actually lower your chance of getting the disease.
Swaddle holds a Ph.D. in behavioral ecology and a B.Sc. in psychology and zoology from the University of Bristol, UK. He has been at Â鶹Æƽâ°æ since 2001.
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