Malaysia fails to eliminate malaria as a new parasite swings out of the jungle.

Deep in the Malaysian Borneo jungle, a team of researchers led by Associate Professor Kimberly Fornace are hooking a green machine up to a propane gas canister. The team are here to catch mosquitos. Above them, the cries of long tailed macaques can be distantly heard coming from the dense tree tops. Malaysia was on the brink of eradicating human malaria. Yet in its place, monkey malaria has been flourishing, driven to an extent by deforestation for palm oil production. Experts fear that this new parasite could one day start spreading from human to human. Thousands of monkeys have already been infected. Shot for The Telegraph.

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