Health
City growth favours animals ‘more likely to carry disease’ – BBC News
Turning wild spaces into farmland or cities creates opportunities for diseases to cross into humans.
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Rats are among the winners from our transformation of nature
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…
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