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Stopping deforestation can prevent pandemics

from Scientific American

Stopping deforestation can prevent pandemics Scientific American SARS, Ebola and now SARS-CoV-2: all three of these highly infectious viruses have caused global panic since 2002n — and all three of them jumped to humans from wild animals that live in dense tropical forests. Three quarters of the emerging pathogens that infect humans leaped from animals, many of them creatures in the forest habitats that we are slashing and burning to create land for crops, including biofuel plants, and for mining and housing. The more we clear, the more we come into contact with wildlife that carries microbes well suited to kill us. READ MORE

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