"70% of the last epidemic outbreaks have started with deforestation"

The Spanish doctor María Neira, director of Public Health and Environment of the World Health Organization (WHO), affirms that the coronavirus pandemic is further proof of the dangerous relationship between viruses and human pressure on the environment .

From her office in Geneva, Switzerland, Neira explains how the Ebola, SARS or HIV / AIDS viruses have jumped from animals to humans after the destruction of jungles and forests ...

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