Thursday, 26 November 2015

PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed illness - Indonesia (02): (PA) fatal, children, comment, RFI

Undiagnosed -- Indonesia
I expect you'll recall that the circumstances described by Erias [Mbuwa district, Papua Province, Indonesia chief Erias Gwijangge] are exactly what happened when Nipah first turned up in Malaysia in 1998 and Bangladesh in 2004.
In both instances, the combination of rainforest logging and drought drove fruit bats out of their favored forest habitat, into proximity to pigs, in order to feed on the fruit waste from village markets that forms a significant part of the diet of Southeast Asia

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