Amazon Deforestation Creating Ideal Conditions For The Next Big Disease Outbreak
In the Amazon rainforest , the germ of the next disease outbreak could be quiet stirring . Numerous ecologist , biologists , and epidemiologists have expressed concern that the next meaning disease irruption could come from the Amazon rain forest , not least becauserampant deforestationand human development are bringing us into increasing contact with animal home ground and potential reservoirs of disease . " The Amazon is a huge artificial lake of viruses , " David Lapola , a global modification ecologist from the University of Campinas in Brazil , toldAFP news government agency ....