Science
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.
Agence France-PresseAug 06, 2020 13:06:03 IST
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.
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…
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