‘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 living relatives to humans. Goodall spoke to Lounge about the threat to endangered wildlife species posed by illegal trafficking, the visible effects of climate change and why we have a lot more to learn when it comes to animal species, human beings and infectious diseases. When they are in stressed conditions in the markets as pets or whatever, that’s when the virus that started in another animal ended up in this animal and now it can cross the species barrier into humans, providing a similar kind or family of viruses in humans and they bond and they make a new mutation, which has caused the covid-19.

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Biodiversity Summit: Lessons from Covid Offer a Warning for the Future
2 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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 …

As the planet warms, scientists warn that cases of infectious diseases could spike
1 year, 5 months ago

As the planet warms, scientists warn that cases of infectious diseases could spike

LA Times  

Climate change is prompting animals to move into new territory, bringing the diseases they carry with them. Climate change displaces some 20 million people every year — people who need housing, medical care, food and other essentials that strain already-fragile systems that are growing ever more stressed. People are suffering and dying right now.” Research shows that climate change influences …

Leave bats alone in their habitats for a pandemic-free future, says study
1 year, 7 months ago

Leave bats alone in their habitats for a pandemic-free future, says study

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Scientists make the case that pandemic prevention requires a global taboo or ban whereby mankind agreed to leave bats alone, to let them have the habitats they need, undisturbed, in a study published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health. We must change humanity's relationship with nature if we want to prevent the next pandemic of zoonotic origin …

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. …

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 …

Humans may give viruses to animals in ‘spillback’ events more often than previously thought
2 years, 9 months ago

Humans may give viruses to animals in ‘spillback’ events more often than previously thought

The Independent  

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Humans have given wild animals diseases nearly 100 times, study says
2 years, 9 months ago

Humans have given wild animals diseases nearly 100 times, study says

Daily Mail  

It's widely believed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid, was spread from wild animals to humans. These pathogens likely spread from humans to wild animals in multiple ways, such as wild animals' contact with human sewage. A spillover describes a virus's jump from another species, while a spillback is the virus going from humans back into wild animals Pictured …

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins
3 years ago

Pandemic mystery: Scientists focus on COVID’s animal origins

Associated Press  

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. “The lab-leak scenario gets a lot of attention, you know, on places like Twitter,” but “there’s no evidence that this virus was in a lab,” said University of Utah scientist Stephen Goldstein, who with 20 others wrote an article in the …

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 …

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 …

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans
3 years, 9 months ago

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans

NPR  

Next Pandemic: Scientists Fear Another Coronavirus Could Jump From Animals To Humans Enlarge this image toggle caption Steeve Jordan/AFP via Getty Images Steeve Jordan/AFP via Getty Images When the pandemic began last year, scientists went looking for the origins of the coronavirus. Sponsor Message This past year, Holmes and his colleagues trapped several hundred bats in a tiny section of …

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, land-use change and health infra: Scientists identify ways of preventing next pandemic
4 years ago

Wildlife, land-use change and health infra: Scientists identify ways of preventing next pandemic

Hindustan Times  

How to prevent the next pandemic? As 2021 begins with Covid-19 continuing its global spread, scientists have spotlighted three approaches to at least reduce the risk of pandemic potential diseases – screening animals, reducing land-use change and improving health infrastructure. Manuel Ruiz, wildlife veterinarian at Montana State University in the US, added that one of the best ways to prevent …

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 …

Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report
4 years, 2 months 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 …

Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation may spark new diseases
4 years, 2 months ago

Next pandemic? Amazon deforestation may spark new diseases

Al Jazeera  

Changes in the Amazon are driving displaced species of animals, from bats to monkeys to mosquitoes, into new areas. ‘Spillover’ Cecilia Andreazzi, a researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, a major public health institute in Brazil, said the current surge in deforestation and fires in the Amazon can lead to new meetings between species on the move – each a …

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 …

Coronavirus has cut conservation back to its most basic function – and now even that is at risk
4 years, 4 months ago

Coronavirus has cut conservation back to its most basic function – and now even that is at risk

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It is central to the work …

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 …

Intensive agriculture raises future pandemic risk, with animals and people in close contact: Study
4 years, 5 months ago

Intensive agriculture raises future pandemic risk, with animals and people in close contact: Study

Firstpost  

COVID-19 is almost certain to have originated in animals before passing to and spreading among humans. Intensive farming makes future pandemics such as COVID-19 more likely as wild animals carrying diseases known to infect humans are forced into increasingly close contact with us, research showed Wednesday. Land used for farming is expanding every year, often to the detriment of natural …

Diseases like COVID-19 that jump from animals to people driven by habitat loss: UN report
4 years, 6 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 …

The Search for a Covid-19 Research Animal Model
4 years, 7 months ago

The Search for a Covid-19 Research Animal Model

Wired  

Early in the morning, the day after Mardi Gras in New Orleans—an explosion of humanity unimaginable today, though it was only two months ago—a FedEx truck pulled up to a loading dock at Tulane University. There, it would be used to infect a group of four Rhesus macaques and four African green monkeys, to see if they could replicate the …

Nonhuman animals and the COVID-19 pandemic
4 years, 8 months ago

Nonhuman animals and the COVID-19 pandemic

Associated Press  

— It should come as no surprise to Pope Francis, the author of the encyclical “ Laudato Si’,” that at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic we find a relationship between human beings and the rest of God’s creation that has gone terribly wrong. In the Bible, animals are said to be “good” in themselves, without reference to any relationship …

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists warn
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus: Pandemics will be worse and more frequent unless we stop exploiting Earth and animals, top scientists 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. As with the climate and biodiversity crises, recent pandemics are a direct consequence of human activity.” They warn: “Rampant …

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 …

We need to fundamentally transform our relationship with the natural world to reduce the risk of disease
4 years, 8 months ago

We need to fundamentally transform our relationship with the natural world to reduce the risk of disease

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy While Covid-19 …

The Pandemic Is Giving Animals a Temporary New World
4 years, 9 months ago

The Pandemic Is Giving Animals a Temporary New World

Slate  

Slate is making its coronavirus coverage free for all readers. “The first thing I started to think about is people who live adjacent to restaurants or above restaurants, where there are rats that have a daily habit of eating the trash that’s put out.” — Matthew Combs “It’s hard to predict what the effects are going to be,” explained Kaitlyn …

HIV, Ebola, SARS and now COVID-19: Why some scientists fear deadly outbreaks are on the rise
4 years, 9 months ago

HIV, Ebola, SARS and now COVID-19: Why some scientists fear deadly outbreaks are on the rise

LA Times  

The social upheaval and death caused by the new coronavirus has awoken many to what some infectious-disease experts have been warning about for more than a decade: Outbreaks of dangerous new diseases with the potential to become pandemics have been on the rise — from HIV to swine flu to SARS to Ebola. Many experts now believe that this surge …

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 …

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 …

Covid-19 will change us as a species (opinion)
4 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19 will change us as a species (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Marcelo Gleiser is the 2019 Templeton Prize Laureate, and the Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Marcelo Gleiser Eli Burakian/Dartmouth College Unlike our parents and grandparents, we didn’t face the tragedy of living through two World Wars; we avoided nuclear warfare during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the Cold War. With the Covid-19 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 …

New Coronavirus 'Won't Be The Last' Outbreak To Move From Animal To Human
4 years, 11 months ago

New Coronavirus 'Won't Be The Last' Outbreak To Move From Animal To Human

NPR  

New Coronavirus 'Won't Be The Last' Outbreak To Move From Animal To Human Enlarge this image toggle caption Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty Images Science & Society Picture Library/SSPL via Getty Images The new strain of coronavirus that has killed hundreds of people in China and caused a travel lockdown of some 56 million people has been classified …

How humans increased wildlife parasites
5 years, 4 months ago

How humans increased wildlife parasites

The Hindu  

While we humans are known to destroy wildlife habitats and make life hard for animals, a new research has now pointed out that by changing the land use patterns and introducing livestock in their ecosystem we are indirectly increasing the parasite diversity in their gastrointestinal system. However, this doesn't necessarily mean that the people currently living in Anamalai Hills are …

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