SARAWAK must practise sustainable logging and preserve its remaining primary forest to counter a new strain of malaria infecting humans from wild monkeys.
Ba’Kelalan assemblyman Baru Bian said an American science magazine reported last week that the Plasmodium knowlesi parasite carried by long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques had become the leading cause of malaria in Malaysia, accounting for nearly 70% of cases in Sarawak and Sabah.
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