Your coffee and chocolate could increase malaria risk

Your coffee and chocolate could increase malaria risk

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As we’re savouring a steaming cup of coffee with a mouth-watering chocolate, we might want to spare a thought for the public health cost these luxuries could impose on developing nations.

Having linked deforestation to increased malaria transmission, researchers estimate that a fifth of this risk is driven by global demand for popular first world commodities such as cocoa, coffee, timber, palm oil, soybeans, tobacco and cotton.

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