BendiNewsTest: Deforestation May Have Paved the Way for Ebola

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Friday, October 17, 2014

Deforestation May Have Paved the Way for Ebola

There are plenty of reasons to fight against deforestation – climate change, loss of animal habitat and destruction of indigenous ways of life – but there’s one reason that you may not have considered. According to researchers, deforestation may have played a role in this year’s devastating ebola outbreak. While cutting away swaths of African forest, loggers may have also been inadvertently creating convenient and unexpected pathways for the virus to spread.