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Intensive farming heightens pandemic risk — study – Jordan Times
PARIS — 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 on Wednesday.Writing in the journal Nature, a team of re…

PARIS 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 on Wednesday.
Writing in the journal Nature, a team of researchers from University College London warned that animal pathogens are increasingly likely to make the leap to humans as land use changes benefit animal hosts.
The United Nations estimates that three quarters of land on Earth has been se…