From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2010:
(Actual press date November 3.)

ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton on October 10, 2010
received the 15th annual ProMED-mail Award for Excellence in Outbreak
Reporting on the Internet, presented by the International Society
for Infectious Diseases for contributions to the identification and
control of emerging disease. Past winners include leading members of
the teams who identified mad cow disease in humans, the H5N1 avian
influenza, Nipah virus, and Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Clifton was honored for contributions that led to identifying fruit
bats as the host species for Nipah virus in April 1999; helping to
identify the roles of cockfighting and falconing in the migration of
H5N1; identifying aspects of halal slaughter as the probable source
of outbreaks of the tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever among
Central Asian meat industry workers in 2009-2010; and especially,
said ProMed-mail editor Larry Madoff, for contributions to
epidemiological understanding of the cultural factors involved in the
spread and control of canine rabies in India, China, Indonesia,
and Vietnam.

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