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Infectious disease outbreaks correlated to deforestation, forest conversion – Business Standard
Infectious disease outbreaks correlated to deforestation, forest conversion
This study offers a first global look at how changes in forest cover potentially contribute to vector-borne diseases — such as those carried by mosquitos and ticks–as well as zoonotic diseases, like Covid-19, which jumped from an animal species into humans. The expansion of palm oil plantations, in particular, corresponded to significant rises in vector-borne disease infections.
“We do not yet know the precise ecological mechanisms at play, but we hypothesise that plantations, such as oil palm,…
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