How to prevent outbreaks of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19
4 years, 9 months ago

How to prevent outbreaks of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

We need to protect natural habitats from human encroachment and stop the illegal trade in wildlife. To prevent future pandemics, we need to stop two far more pervasive human practices: the relentless destruction and conversion of wildlife habitats to croplands and the uncontrolled harvesting of wild species. As such, any serious long-term measures to stop or eradicate zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 must include massive investments in protecting natural spaces and enforcing “buffer-distancing” around protected areas to keep humans at a safe distance from direct contact with wild species. These markets, mixed with the illegal trade in wildlife, put people and animals in constant close contact, making it easy for zoonotic diseases to jump from animals to humans. For it to succeed, countries must meet a 2030 deadline for the restoration of ecosystems and protection of wildlife and habitats that perform crucial services for humans, including preventing the emergence of zoonotic diseases.

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Biodiversity Summit: Lessons from Covid Offer a Warning for the Future
2 months, 1 week ago

Biodiversity Summit: Lessons from Covid Offer a Warning for the Future

The Hindu  

Experts and activists at the COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia, urge world leaders to learn the lessons from the estimated seven million lives lost to Covid and thousands more due to Ebola. They propose a biodiversity and health action plan that includes commitments to limit harmful agriculture and forestry, reduce the use of pesticides, fertilizers and other chemicals damaging …

Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds
9 months, 1 week ago

Humans give more viruses to animals than they give us, study finds

Hindustan Times  

Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people. "This really highlights our enormous impact on the environment and the animals around us," said Cedric Tan, a doctoral student in computational biology at the University College London Genetics Institute, lead author of the study published this week in the journal Nature …

75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, cautions Union Health Secretary
1 year, 2 months ago

75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic, cautions Union Health Secretary

The Hindu  

Limited knowledge and skill to identify zoonotic diseases, coupled with limited diagnostic facilities at all levels has resulted in neglect of the infectious diseases due to zoonotic pathogens cautioned Union Health Secretary, Sudhansh Pant, on October 17. Mr. Pant made his comments while delivering the keynote address at the national conclave on “Augmented Zoonotic Diseases Surveillance at Human – Wildlife …

With climate change, tackling new disease scenarios
1 year, 3 months ago

With climate change, tackling new disease scenarios

The Hindu  

In its latest report released this March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change delivers a stark warning: climate change heightens the global risk of infectious diseases. Climate change, more infections Habitat loss forces disease-carrying animals to encroach upon human territory, increasing the risk of human-animal interaction and the transfer of pathogens from wildlife to humans. Mitigating the spread of climate …

World Zoonoses Day 2023: Five zoonotic diseases that transmit from animals to humans
1 year, 6 months ago

World Zoonoses Day 2023: Five zoonotic diseases that transmit from animals to humans

India TV News  

World Zoonoses Day 2023 is on July 6, and it is an important time to consider the five zoonotic diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans. This year marks a special milestone for World Zoonoses Day as we take a closer look at five common zoonotic diseases: rabies, Lyme disease, brucellosis, toxoplasmosis, and hantavirus. If left untreated, Lyme disease …

Man Vs Virus: How scientists are preparing for future pandemics in a Mexican jungle
1 year, 9 months ago

Man Vs Virus: How scientists are preparing for future pandemics in a Mexican jungle

Firstpost  

Scientists collect samples of various animals from the Yucatan jungle in Mexico as part of an investigation aimed at preventing the next potential pandemic. At dusk, it is the turn of bats and even owls Tzucacab: As night fell in Mexico’s Yucatan jungle, veterinarian Omar Garcia extracted blood and fluids from a bat as part of an investigation aimed at …

America is 'fundamentally unprepared' for zoonotic diseases
1 year, 10 months ago

America is 'fundamentally unprepared' for zoonotic diseases

Daily Mail  

With the US teetering on the brink of nuclear war with Russia and gloomy warnings about climate change, many believe these events could end the human race. In an editorial published today, they claimed America is 'fundamentally unprepared', despite the Covid pandemic being so fresh in people's minds, as well as the recent bird flu and Marburg virus outbreak scares. …

Monkeypox UK: Why climate and biodiversity crisis means we can expect more viruses like
2 years, 5 months ago

Monkeypox UK: Why climate and biodiversity crisis means we can expect more viruses like

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Climate change is unlikely to affect all diseases and areas consistently, and will also interact with other factors such …

One Health strategy key to checking zoonotic diseases: expert
2 years, 6 months ago

One Health strategy key to checking zoonotic diseases: expert

The Hindu  

Zoonotic diseases or diseases transmitted from animals to human beings are on the rise across the world. Among zoonotic diseases, rabies, leptospirosis, tuberculosis, food poisoning, brucellosis, West Nile disease, Salmonellosis, Avian influenza and swine fever are on the rise in the State. “The One Health strategy consisting of comprehensive health of human beings, animals and the environment needs to be …

Pathogens Jumping to Humans from Animals Becoming More Frequent, Warns WHO
2 years, 7 months ago

Pathogens Jumping to Humans from Animals Becoming More Frequent, Warns WHO

News 18  

Outbreaks of endemic diseases such as monkeypox and lassa fever are becoming more persistent and frequent, the World Health Organization’s emergency director, Mike Ryan, warned on Wednesday. As climate change contributes to rapidly changing weather conditions like drought, animals, and humans are changing their behavior, including food-seeking habits. As a result of this "ecologic fragility", pathogens that typically circulate in …

Hotter Climate Could Cause Spread of Thousands of Viruses from Animals to Humans, Study Predicts
2 years, 8 months ago

Hotter Climate Could Cause Spread of Thousands of Viruses from Animals to Humans, Study Predicts

News 18  

The world has seen how the novel coronavirus that jumped into humans wreaked an unprecedented havoc across countries in the last two years. Now, a new modelling study has estimated how the ongoing climate change could further raise the risk of such infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans in the coming years, especially in Southeast Asia. “We need to …

2 bird flu cases confirmed in US zoos as virus spreads
2 years, 8 months ago

2 bird flu cases confirmed in US zoos as virus spreads

Associated Press  

— Two cases of bird flu have been confirmed in U.S. zoos, but officials said they won’t order widespread euthanasia of zoo birds the way they have on farms. Stepien said zoos work with state veterinary officials when the virus is found, but unlike farms, zoos are generally allowed to isolate and treat an infected bird as long as they …

Zoos across North America are moving birds indoors to protect them from avian flu
2 years, 9 months ago

Zoos across North America are moving birds indoors to protect them from avian flu

NPR  

Zoos across North America are moving birds indoors to protect them from avian flu Enlarge this image toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP Charlie Neibergall/AP OMAHA, Neb. — Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza. Toronto Zoo workers are …

Zoos hiding birds as avian flu spreads in North America
2 years, 9 months ago

Zoos hiding birds as avian flu spreads in North America

Associated Press  

— Zoos across North America are moving their birds indoors and away from people and wildlife as they try to protect them from the highly contagious and potentially deadly avian influenza. There’s a lot of staff that has close connections with the animals that they care for here at the zoo.” Toronto Zoo workers are adding roofs to some outdoor …

China's wildlife is a pandemic waiting to happen,' study finds
3 years, 1 month ago

China's wildlife is a pandemic waiting to happen,' study finds

Deccan Chronicle  

Wildlife species sold in wet markets in China were linked to the emergence of SARS and Covid-19. A study of more than a dozen species of game animals traded, sold and commonly consumed as exotic food in China identified 71 mammalian viruses, including 18 deemed “potentially high-risk” to people and domestic animals. “This study highlights exactly why the wildlife trade …

Covid-19 Infected Asiatic Lion on Antibiotic Regimen; Tamil Nadu CM Stalin Visits Zoo
3 years, 7 months ago

Covid-19 Infected Asiatic Lion on Antibiotic Regimen; Tamil Nadu CM Stalin Visits Zoo

News 18  

The infected Asiatic lions at the Arignar Anna Zoological Park, popularly known as Vandalur zoo here, have been quarantined and on a regimen of antibiotics and other prophylactic drugs. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin, who visited the zoo on Sunday and took stock of the situation, directed the officials of Environment & Forest department and the facility to …

Editorial: COVID ‘herd immunity’ may be out of reach. Deal with it
3 years, 8 months ago

Editorial: COVID ‘herd immunity’ may be out of reach. Deal with it

LA Times  

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have collectively focused on that point in the future when so many people have been inoculated or have obtained natural immunity, normal life could resume and this painful period would dissolve into the mists of history. But it seems that this magical moment in which the U.S. hits “herd immunity” and COVID-19 …

A ‘One Health’ approach that targets people, animals
3 years, 8 months ago

A ‘One Health’ approach that targets people, animals

The Hindu  

The father of modern pathology, Rudolf Virchow, emphasised in 1856 that there are essentially no dividing lines between animal and human medicine. India’s framework, plans India’s ‘One Health’ vision derives its blueprint from the agreement between the tripartite-plus alliance comprising the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Organisation for Animal Health, the World Health Organization and …

Wild Recovery: Protecting nature and preventing the next pandemic
3 years, 8 months ago

Wild Recovery: Protecting nature and preventing the next pandemic

Al Jazeera  

earthrise looks at protecting wildlife and preventing pandemics through the stories of two endangered mammals which have been investigated for links to COVID-19. In southern India, locals are safeguarding the only remaining home of one critically endangered bat. And disease ecologist, Jonathan Epstein, explains how our encroachment on nature is making another outbreak “almost guaranteed”. With films made by Untamed …

Nine Great Apes Receive Covid-19 Vaccine Shots Following Virus Outbreak in San Diego Zoo
3 years, 10 months ago

Nine Great Apes Receive Covid-19 Vaccine Shots Following Virus Outbreak in San Diego Zoo

News 18  

The San Diego Zoo has vaccinated nine great apes for the coronavirus after a troop of gorillas in its Safari Park became infected, officials said Thursday. Eight western lowland gorillas got the virus, probably by exposure to a zookeeper who tested positive for COVID-19, officials said, even though employees work masks at all times around the gorillas. “That made us …

COVID and other diseases: An Animal Farm perspective
3 years, 10 months ago

COVID and other diseases: An Animal Farm perspective

The Hindu  

It is no exaggeration to observe that the coronavirus pandemic has been the single most newsworthy event of 2020, in a way and on a scale that has not been rivalled, over decades, by any other comparably unique phenomenon. Returning to TB, a disease that is indisputably agreed to be a scourge of the poor, it is bad enough that …

In a First, Two Gorillas Have Tested Positive For Covid-19 in US Zoo
3 years, 11 months ago

In a First, Two Gorillas Have Tested Positive For Covid-19 in US Zoo

News 18  

It’s not just humans, but human’s closest relatives that have also been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. At least two gorillas at California’s San Diego Zoo have caught the coronavirus, the first known instance of natural transmission to great apes, officials said Monday. Two primates began coughing last week and have since tested positive for Covid-19, while a third is …

In 1st Known Case of Transmission to Great Apes, Gorillas at US Zoo Test Positive for Covid-19
3 years, 11 months ago

In 1st Known Case of Transmission to Great Apes, Gorillas at US Zoo Test Positive for Covid-19

News 18  

At least two gorillas at California’s San Diego Zoo have caught the coronavirus, the first known instance of natural transmission to great apes, officials said Monday. Two primates began coughing last week and have since tested positive for Covid-19, while a third is showing symptoms, Governor Gavin Newsom said. “Aside from some congestion and coughing, the gorillas are doing well,” …

Scientists work out ways to prevent next pandemic
4 years ago

Scientists work out ways to prevent next pandemic

Live Mint  

As 2021 begins with covid-19 continuing its global spread, scientists have spotlighted three approaches to reduce the risk of potential diseases – screening animals, reducing land-use change and improving health infrastructure. Following several multidisciplinary studies in 2020, scientists now firmly believe a “perfect storm” for an outbreak with pandemic potential is created by the combined forces of land-use change, high …

Wildlife Diseases Poised to Spread Northwards as Global Warming Increases, Finds Study
4 years, 1 month ago

Wildlife Diseases Poised to Spread Northwards as Global Warming Increases, Finds Study

News 18  

As the world’s climate warms, parasite-carried wildlife diseases will move north, with animals in cold far-north and high-altitude regions expected to suffer the most dramatic increases, warns a study to be published on Friday in the journal Science. “We do know that 75% of emerging infectious diseases have a wildlife origin,” said Rohr, who runs an ecology and public health …

Pandemics tied to fragmented forests, biodiversity loss? What science says, and India's response
4 years, 1 month ago

Pandemics tied to fragmented forests, biodiversity loss? What science says, and India's response

Firstpost  

With more than 50 million people infected and 1.32 million dead, the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 is now personal for most people across the world. “The proposed changes make our country more vulnerable to unprecedented environmental disasters by decreasing public participation and giving free rein to polluting industries,” said the National Alliance for People’s Movement in a statement. While welcoming …

Protecting world’s tropical peatlands could help ‘stop the spread of new diseases’
4 years, 1 month ago

Protecting world’s tropical peatlands could help ‘stop the spread of new diseases’

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Protecting the world’s remaining tropical peatlands could help to curb the risk of new diseases …

Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report
4 years, 1 month ago

Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report

Firstpost  

The report says an estimated 1.7 million currently undiscovered viruses are thought to exist in mammal and avian hosts. A major report released today says up to 850,000 undiscovered viruses which could be transferred to humans are thought to exist in mammal and avian hosts. Without preventative strategies, pandemics will emerge more often, sp The report says, on average, five …

Treat nature right or future pandemics will wreck more havoc than COVID-19 did says UN panel
4 years, 2 months ago

Treat nature right or future pandemics will wreck more havoc than COVID-19 did says UN panel

Firstpost  

Seventy percent of emerging diseases — such as Ebola, Zika and HIV/AIDS — are zoonotic in origin, meaning they circulate in animals before jumping to humans. “There is no great mystery about the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic — or any modern pandemic,” said Peter Daszak, president of the Ecohealth Alliance and chair of the IPBES workshop that drafted the …

Coronavirus: Millions of wild animals imported to UK from hot spots of emerging disease, risking new pandemics, study warns
4 years, 3 months ago

Coronavirus: Millions of wild animals imported to UK from hot spots of emerging disease, risking new pandemics, study warns

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Millions of live wild animals are being legally imported into …

Mountain gorillas face extinction due to threats of both coronavirus and poaching
4 years, 4 months ago

Mountain gorillas face extinction due to threats of both coronavirus and poaching

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Craig Sholley, a conservationist renowned for his work with …

Destroying Natural Habitats Bring Pandemic Causing Pathogens Closer to Humans
4 years, 5 months ago

Destroying Natural Habitats Bring Pandemic Causing Pathogens Closer to Humans

News 18  

For time immemorial, humans have been changing the ecosystem according to their convenience. Apart from bringing us closer to global warming, these activities are also bringing disease-hosting and carrying pathogens closer to our lives, as claimed by a study. A team of researchers from the University College London, UK, has established that human-managed ecosystems serve as a gate to several …

Diseases like COVID-19 that jump from animals to people driven by habitat loss: UN report
4 years, 5 months ago

Diseases like COVID-19 that jump from animals to people driven by habitat loss: UN report

Firstpost  

Unsustainable agriculture practices, expansion of infrastructure and resource mining at the expense of wild spaces has severely limited our ability to prevent these diseases. Apart from the coronavirus-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, other pathogens that were responsible for these ‘zoonotic diseases’ in the past include infamous epidemic agents like Ebola, Middle East respiratory syndrome, HIV/AIDS and West Nile virus. “The science is …

'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation And Disease
4 years, 6 months ago

'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation And Disease

NPR  

'Like Poking a Beehive': The Worrisome Link Between Deforestation And Disease Enlarge this image toggle caption Zoë van Dijk for NPR Zoë van Dijk for NPR In 2013, an 18-month-old boy got sick after playing near a hollow tree in his backyard in a remote West African village. Sponsor Message "When you disturb a forest, it actually upsets, if you …

Coronavirus is hampering critical work to protect threatened species and habitats worldwide
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus is hampering critical work to protect threatened species and habitats worldwide

Firstpost  

The lockdown has derailed the eco-tourism that funds many environmental projects, from South America’s rainforests to Africa’s savannahs. “Scientists and conservationists have faced interruptions from big global disasters before, like an earthquake or a coup in one country,” said Duke University ecologist Stuart Pimm, founder of the nonprofit Saving Nature. “Ninety-nine percent of these fires are started by people, and …

World Environment Day 2020: How natural habitat destruction can fuel zoonotic diseases like COVID-19
4 years, 7 months ago

World Environment Day 2020: How natural habitat destruction can fuel zoonotic diseases like COVID-19

Firstpost  

Experts have found links to the emergence of viruses like Nipah, Lassa, Hendra, COVID-19, HIV, and others to deforestation. The COVID-19 pandemic “is likely a global effect of natural habitat destruction combined with the effects of globalisation,” says Maria Cristina Rulli, professor at the department of civil and environmental engineering at Politecnico di Milano, who has worked extensively on the …

Animal Planet's new documentary about effects of COVID-19 on animals
4 years, 7 months ago

Animal Planet's new documentary about effects of COVID-19 on animals

India TV News  

Animal Planet has announced a new documentary "The Zoo: COVID-19 And Animals", which seeks to explore the effects of coronavirus on animals. The special will see Dave Salmoni, Animal Planet's big cat expert, talking to a number of experts, from the World Health Organization to wildlife biologists, in order to find out how COVID-19 is affecting animals and what pet …

Coronavirus: Timeline of pandemics and other viruses that humans caught by interacting with animals
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Timeline of pandemics and other viruses that humans caught by interacting with animals

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Since the 1970s, it is estimated at least three dozen …

Coronavirus | Why pathogens travel in search of a host
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Why pathogens travel in search of a host

The Hindu  

The story so far: Long before the virus causing COVID-19 vitiated for the world many efficiencies it had taken for granted, it pit many over claims about how the vicious virus came to be in the first place. Moreover, commenting on the fact that bats and pangolins might have spread the infection, the authors said: “Given the similarity of SARS-CoV-2 …

When a virus jumps: of man, microbes and pandemics
4 years, 8 months ago

When a virus jumps: of man, microbes and pandemics

Live Mint  

Inger Andersen, executive director of the UN Environment Programme, said last month that nature was sending humankind a “message” through the coronavirus pandemic and climate crisis. “Warm climate keeps becoming warmer and that’s what we have to prepare ourselves for.” ‘FLIGHT AS FEVER’ In the past, researchers have traced the origins of some of the deadliest animal-borne disease outbreaks to …

Coronavirus: Exterminating bats blamed for spreading Covid-19 would increase risk of further diseases, warn experts
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Exterminating bats blamed for spreading Covid-19 would increase risk of further diseases, warn experts

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Exterminating colonies of bats because they were the source of Covid-19 would be pointless and …

Coronavirus | Humans to blame for pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Humans to blame for pandemic

The Hindu  

Whether it came from a bat or a pangolin is not certain, but one thing is: the coronavirus outbreak comes from the animal world. Gwenael Vourc’h of INRAE, a French public research institute, also blames human activity for the crossover between species.“Given the growth of the human population and its ever more intense use of planetary resources, the destruction of …

‘We have to find a different way of living’: Jane Goodall on the covid-19 crisis
4 years, 8 months ago

‘We have to find a different way of living’: Jane Goodall on the covid-19 crisis

Live Mint  

Renowned British primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall laughs when I ask if the world will be better prepared to face pandemics and other disease outbreaks that might hit us in the future. Goodall’s behavioural research on chimpanzee populations in the Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania, starting 1960, remains a pioneering piece of work on understanding more about the closest …

Bat coronaviruses discovered in Myanmar study don't appear to harm humans
4 years, 8 months ago

Bat coronaviruses discovered in Myanmar study don't appear to harm humans

Firstpost  

Last week, scientists from the Smithsonian’s Global Health program discovered six new coronaviruses in bats living in popular caves in Myanmar. Scientists associated with the United States Agency for International Development’s PREDICT program have discovered 140 new coronaviruses since 2009, with the aim of studying their effects on humans and planning interventions to mitigate future outbreaks. Last week, scientists from …

Coronavirus: Bronx Zoo tiger tests positive for COVID-19
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Bronx Zoo tiger tests positive for COVID-19

Al Jazeera  

Malayan tiger ‘Nadia’ believed to be infected by a zoo employee in the first known animal case of COVID-19 in the US. A tiger at New York’s Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection in an animal in the United States or a tiger anywhere in the world, …

Op-Ed: COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to animals is killing us, too
4 years, 9 months ago

Op-Ed: COVID-19 shows that what we’re doing to animals is killing us, too

LA Times  

Scientists suspect that COVID-19 is caused by a virus that jumped from bats to humans through wildlife sold at a live animal market. About two-thirds of emerging infectious diseases in humans — including COVID-19, SARS, MERS, Ebola, HIV, Zika, H1N1, cholera and almost all recent epidemics — came from animals. As 7.8 billion people on this planet radically alter ecosystems …

Coronavirus | COVID-19 is a new animal in the zoo; we are still understanding the virus: NITI Aayog member V.K. Paul
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus | COVID-19 is a new animal in the zoo; we are still understanding the virus: NITI Aayog member V.K. Paul

The Hindu  

Co-chair of the Empowered Committee for COVID-19 Response, India, Dr. V.K. COVID-19 is a new animal in the zoo, we are still understanding the virus that hasn’t seen a full cycle of season, so cannot say conclusively how it will behave. COVID-19 | Interactive map of confirmed coronavirus cases in India What we know is that we have a pandemic, …

'We should start thinking about the next one': Coronavirus is just the first of many pandemics to come, environmentalists warn
4 years, 9 months ago

'We should start thinking about the next one': Coronavirus is just the first of many pandemics to come, environmentalists warn

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Dr Enric Sala, marine ecologist and part of National Geographic’s Campaign For Nature, told The Independent: “I’m absolutely sure …

Watch | All about zoonotic diseases
4 years, 9 months ago

Watch | All about zoonotic diseases

The Hindu  

A zoonosis is any disease or infection that is naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. Although anyone can get sick from a zoonotic disease, those at a higher risk of contraction are: Children younger than 5 Adults older than 65 People with weakened immune systems Pregnant women Types of Influenza in Animals Bat influenza | Influenza A viruses are …

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