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The relentless growth of the human population during the past half-century has stimulated city-building, forest-clearing and the expansion and intensification of agriculture.

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Deforestation and other forms of landscape transformation have increased the risk of infectious diseases in several other ways. Pathways include more frequent direct and indirect human contact with rodents, primates, bats and birds, thereby increasing the risk of old and new zoonoses.

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Deforestation can also alter the distribution and population size of vectorial subspecies, many of which have differing capacities to transmit pathogens. The resultant change in vectorial biodiversity can thus alter human and animal epidemiology. This has occurred with onchocerciasis, a disease where it has been shown that transmission has been altered by changes in the density of the different subspecies populations of the blackfly Simulium damnosum.

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