First, the frogs died. Then people got sick. | An emerging area of research is uncovering surprising links between nature and human health. (www.washingtonpost.com)
from silence7@slrpnk.net to world@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 15:20
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Then they compared that spread to county-level health records of malaria in humans. They found a striking pattern: a fivefold spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived and the frogs died. Lips, Springborn and their colleagues published the discovery in 2022 in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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dogbert@lemmy.zip on 14 Nov 16:53 collapse

Nature being linked to human health is probably the least surprising thing I’ve ever heard…

victorz@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 20:26 collapse

I thought it was posted to The Onion at first; had to do a double take.