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Disease ecology

the idea that predators reduce disease in prey by removing infected individuals and lowering prey density, so predator control can raise infection.

In disease ecology, healthy herds hypothesis refers to the idea that predators reduce disease in prey by removing infected individuals and lowering prey density, so predator control can raise infection. This meaning comes from Packer (2003) in Ecology Letters.[1]

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References

Packer, C., Holt, R. D., Hudson, P. J., Lafferty, K. D., & Dobson, A. P. (2003). Keeping the herds healthy and alert: implications of predator control for infectious disease. Ecology Letters, 6(9), 797-802. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00500.x

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