Health
City growth favours animals ‘more likely to carry disease’ – Yahoo News Australia
Turning wild spaces into farmland or cities creates opportunities for diseases to cross into humans.
Turning wild spaces into farmland and cities has created more opportunities for animal diseases to cross into humans, scientists have warned.
Our transformation of the natural landscape drives out many wild animals, but favours species more likely to carry diseases, a study suggests.
The work adds to growing evidence that exploitation of nature fuels pandemics.
Scientists estimate that three out of every four new emerging infectious diseases come from animals.
The study shows that, worldwide…
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