The Coming Contagion

Live bat, trapped by ecologists in the forest outside Mbandaka by ecologists to later test for Corona Viruses and Ebola

The Coming Contagion

Tropical rainforests now pose a near existential threat to humankind. It's a known unknown - a matter of science fact not fiction - that the destruction of forest wildernesses, like the Congo River Basin, brings human beings closer to emerging infectious diseases like Covid-19, Ebola and HIV. CNN's Sam Kiley travels to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's hot zones to investigate the coming contagion.

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