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"Gold prices are at an all-time high, and we are very worried. As disease
ecologists, it’s not the economic instability that concerns us, but the fact
that a surge in gold mining could have a devastating impact on human health.
Our team of researchers from Stanford University, Universidade Federal de Mato
Grosso, and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil, established and
quantified the effects of illegal gold mining on a recent surge in malaria in
the Yanomami territory in the Brazilian Amazon that plunged this isolated
Indigenous population into a devastating health crisis in the early 2020s."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
