Malaysia is ground zero for the next malaria menace
Deforestation brings monkeys and humans close enough to share an age-old disease
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MONKEY MALARIA People pick up malaria from mosquitoes. But in Southeast Asia, more of those biters are transmitting the parasites from monkeys, like macaques (one shown), to people.
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