This audio clip by NPR, New Roads in the Amazon may Deliver Disease, discusses how malaria is spread by the development of roads in the Amazon.  Interviews with researchers in the village of Mazan explain how roads can create corridors for malaria-carrying mosquitoes to travel to isolated villages.  When a local government is blindsided by the positives of building a road, unexpected dangerous consequences can arise form acting too quickly.

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