The Troubling Link Between Deforestation and Disease

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🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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There's evidence deforestation has gotten worse under the pandemic. It's especially troubling news. Scientists are discovering a strong correlation between deforestation and disease outbreaks. NPR correspondent Nathan Rott talks to Short Wave reporter Emily Kwong.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.6	Hey everybody, shortwave reporter Emily Kwong here with NPR National Correspondent, Nate
0:10.6	Rott.
0:11.6	Howdy Nate.
0:12.6	Hey Emily, I know it's not the holiday season, but I want to start today by paying a visit
0:17.6	to a ghost of an epidemic past.
0:20.1	So not the present, not the coronavirus.
0:22.8	Am I going to have to be scrooge in this scenario?
0:25.0	Emily, I think that's going to depend on your attitude.
0:26.8	All right, I see how it is.
0:28.2	Okay.
0:29.2	We're not going to go too far back in time.
0:31.6	And the reason that we're going back in time is not great.
0:34.6	The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm with a painful and grotesque set of
0:39.5	symptoms.
0:40.5	Dozens of deaths are reported in Guinea in West Africa.
0:43.1	Spread of this Ebola virus.
0:45.1	The Ebola virus is back.
0:47.5	This was the Ebola outbreak that started in 2013 in West Africa.
0:52.4	Exactly.
0:53.4	It was and still is the largest Ebola outbreak in history.
0:57.4	It lasted for years, killing more than 11,000 people.
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