Malaysia is ground zero for the next malaria menace

Deforestation brings monkeys and humans close enough to share an age-old disease

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MONKEY MALARIA  People pick up malaria from mosquitoes. But in Southeast Asia, more of those biters are transmitting the parasites from monkeys, like macaques (one shown), to people.

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Vinita Surukan knew the mosquitoes were trouble. They attacked her in swarms, biting through her clothes as she worked to collect rubber tree sap near her village in Sabah, the northern state of Malaysia.