How to stop the next pandemic? Stop deforestation | Neil Vora

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Clearing tropical forests isn't just dangerous to the natural world — it's also a threat to human health and wellbeing, says physician Neil Vora. Tracing how environmental devastation led to deadly epidemics like Ebola, he presents three ways deforestation unleashes disease and calls on each of us to help preserve the delicate ecological balance we depend upon.

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0:12.0	There is a smart and sustainable way
0:14.8	to prevent viral outbreaks,
0:17.0	and it's simpler than we think,
0:19.2	according to conservationist Neil Vora.
0:22.0	He makes a case for thinking of the forests first to benefit
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1:06.0	I have a tendency to overshare when I first meet people. So in keeping with that habit, I wanted to share that
1:11.0	I'm a medical audity. I'm a doctor who specializes in saving forests.
1:19.6	My journey's been unusual and through it I've learned how vital tropical forests are for our health.
1:26.7	As soon as I finish my internal medicine training, I traded in my scrubs for a hazmat suit.
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