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Published online 28 November 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031124-12
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West Nile Virus may have felled Alexander the Great
Conservation and medicine collide in the jungle.
Destruction of the Amazon rainforest is opening the door to malaria-bearing mosquitoes, researchers are warning. They hope to highlight how environmental damage is fuelling human disease.
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