Deforestation: Does More Open Area Equal More Malaria?

When you think of “Amazon deforestation,” you probably think of the cute animals that are losing their homes to gold miners and farmers that are stripping the land. What you don’t tend to think of are the not-so-cute infections diseases that can spread from the drastic and devastating ecological changes caused by the deforestation. The reemergence of infectious diseases caused by deforestation has become a main concern of both epidemiologists and ecologists.