We are entering an era of pandemics – it will end only when we protect the rainforest

Reducing deforestation and the exploitation of nature are the first steps in breaking the chain of ailment emergence. In late 2013, in the village of Meliandou in rural Guinea, a group of children playing near a hollow tree frightened a small colony of bats hiding inside. Scientists guess that Emile Ouamouno, who later became the…