Human mobility in the Amazon ‘pushes malaria to cities’ Mâncio Lima is a city with just 17,000 inhabitants but is the main urban malaria hotspot in Brazil. Copyright: Cortesía de Igor. Speed read Remote riverside villages are not the most vulnerable as previously thought Agricultural workers stay in badly affected peripheries then take the disease to cities Share this article: Republish We encourage you to republish this article online and in print, it’s free under our creative commons attribution license, but please follow some simple guidelines: You have to credit our authors. You have to credit SciDev.Net — where possible include our logo with a link back to the original article.