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How deforestation shares blame for Ebola epidemic
2014-10-12 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Like most matters involving an Ebola epidemic, chronicling its first horrifying infection is not an easy endeavor. But even in circumstances in which details are hard to come by, certain similarities have emerged. The first contact often occurs in remote, rural communities where a victim handles an infected animal carcass, and things quickly progress downward from there. One outbreak in Ivory Coast was sparked when an ethologist touched an infected, dead chimpanzee. In Gabon and the Republic of...
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