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Forest fear

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The Impact of Deforestation on the Amazon

Barbara han is a disease ecologist at the carey institute of ecosystem studies in brazil. She says deforestation has increased contact between humans and the forest. The main herb and vectos vectors, e musqite transmits o passages,. Atis, e gypty and as appi, primarily feed on humans. And then you have some of the sylvhatic species in the forest. That's where we get i either spill over or potentially spill back. As far say, varises can move in both directions. They can move from the forest into a human population, but they can also move from humans into the forest as well.

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