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Changes In Ecology Create New Ways For Disease To Spread

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Scientists from around the globe got together at the UW Madison Monday to discuss how a changing environment may be worsening our health. They point to clearcutting of forests, dependence on cars, and mass food production as reasons why diseases are showing up where they never used to be. Shamane Mills reports…

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