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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Goodbye to Amazon Forests Means Hello to Malaria

Establishing a firm link between environmental change and human disease has always been an iffy proposition.

Now, however, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writing in the current (June 16, 2010) online issue of the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, presents the most enumerated case to date linking increased incidence of malaria to land-use practices in the Amazon.

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Posted by Craig Jones on 06/16/10 at 01:19 PM

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