Major Study Links Malaria Mosquitoes To Amazon Deforestation

In one of the most field-intensive efforts to explore the connection between malaria and tropical deforestation, a team led by Jonathan Patz, a specialist in the link between environment and health at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has established a strong correlation between the extent of forest destruction and the incidence of the Amazon’s most dangerous malaria vector, the mosquito Anopheles darlingi.

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Filed under: Tropical on June 30th, 2009