Preventing future pandemics starts with recognizing links between human and animal health
- Written by: Deborah Kochevar, Professor of Comparative Pathobiology and Dean Emerita, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine; Senior Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Disturbing the habitats of horseshoe bats, like these in Borneo, increases the risk of virus spillover.Mike Prince/Flickr, CC BYThe COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that zoonotic diseases – infections that pass from animals to humans – can present tremendous threats to global health. More than 70% of emerging and reemerging pathogens...
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