News Analysis: Destroying Nature Unleashes Infectious Diseases

July 15, 2012, 12:40 pm by New York Times - Health

A developing model of infectious disease shows that most epidemics — AIDS, Ebola, West Nile, SARS, Lyme disease — are a result of things people do to nature.

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