YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale scientists find evidence he healthy animals detect and avoid sick animals.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-22 September 1999-YALE UNIVERSITY: Yale scientists find evidence healthy animals detect and avoid sick animals (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:210999 New Haven, Conn. -- A new study by Yale scientists has found that animals can recognize and stay away from other animals that may infect them with a disease.

Professor David Skelly said that research completed in his laboratory in collaboration with Professor Joseph Kiesecker, who is now at Penn State University, shows that healthy animals can distinguish the odors given off by infected animals and will keep their distance from diseased individuals. "Biologists had long speculated that animals might gain an advantage from being able to avoid diseased animals, but there was no...